This article profiles organizations across Canada working to better women's health. Lists mission statements, program intentions and community involvement.
This article examines The Epp Report. Discuses the proposed movement from the individual model. Illustrates the value of the report in terms of health promotion and health strategies.
This article demonstrates why tobacco is a feminist concern. Discusses the politics of tobacco, cigarettes as symbols. Illustrates the importance of breaking the silence around the dangers of tobacco use. Offers a list of organizations which stress prevention and provide support and information for smokers trying to quit.
The result of 10 regional consultations throughout the province, carried out with the assistance of the Women's Health Clinic. Revisits the initial Manitoba Women’s Health Strategy which was developed in 2000-2001 to provide a foundation on which to build a new approach to women’s health.
British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (BCCEWH)
Media Type:
Paper
Online
Author:
British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health
British Columbia Women's Hospital
The recently released report is a follow-up document to Advancing the Health of Girls and Women: A Women's Health Strategy for British Columbia (2004). It reports on advancements made in support of the Strategy and those occurring concurrently across the province in the Strategy's three priority areas:
1) Improving Women's Health Monitoring, Surveillance, and Reporting
2) Sustaining Access to Maternity Care
3) Supporting Women-centred Approaches to Mental Health, Problematic Substance Use, and Addictions
Provides advice on how such a surveillance system should operate: its issues, priorities, methodologies and potential partnerships in matters of women's health surveillance.
Works to ensure that Health Canada's policies and programs are responsive to sex and gender differences and to women's health needs, increase knowledge and understanding of women's health and women's health needs, support the provision of effective health services to women, and promote good health through preventive measures and the reduction of risk factors that most imperil the health of women.
Works on research endeavors with particular attention to policy that will improve the health status of women who are marginalized and face multiple disadvantages in health due to socioeconomic status, race, culture, sexual orientation, geography, disability/or addiction.
Works to improve the health of women in Manitoba and Saskatchewan in particular by making the health system more responsive to women’s and girls’ health and well being.
