<p>Includes bibliographical references. --- Review, Network Spring 2000: Lesbians often face discrimination that prevents access to quality health services. Caring for Lesbian Health is aimed at health care providers, policy makers and planners to increase awareness of the importance of lesbian health and what can be done to ensure that quality care is available.</p>
So many bricks in the wall: developing understanding from young women's experiences with sexual health services and education in Amherst, Nova Scotia
Owning Org:
Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Womens' Health (ACEWH)
Centres of Excellence for Womens Health (CEWH)
Media Type:
Paper
Online
Author:
Donald B. Langille
Janice Graham
Emily Marshall
Melissa Blake
Christina Chitty
Healther Doncaster-Scott
Examines barriers preventing young women from receiving effective sexual health education from their schools, physicians and pharmacies. Based on a survey by Amherst Initiative for Healthy Adolescent Sexuality.
Explores the characteristics and structures that combine to form a culturally competent organization, service or care pathway. Contains: an introduction to the toolbox including a review of the literature on Culturally Competent Services; a report of the process involved in developing the toolkit that outlines how the perceptions of professionals and communities towards cultural competency have been researched, and a collection of file dividers that point to the useful national and local documents conerned with ethnicity and cultural competency one needs to have access to e.g. local strategy on ethnicity, local and national ethnic monitoring data, and a summary of the MacPherson Report.
Examines the extent of access to, and satisfaction with, primary health care services for people with physical disabilities living in Toronto, ON. Evaluates the preceved extent of access to primary healthcare services as well as the level of satisfaction with the quality of these services.
Presents the proceedings of the conference, 'Health Technology Assessment: A Needs-Based Approach' put on by the International Development Research Centre.
Explores the theories and concepts of women's health, as well as examining these theories in practice. Discusses ways to put these new ideas on women and health into practice.
<p>Includes bibliographical references and index. --- Review, Network Winter 1998/99: Women and Health Services: An Agenda for Change explores the theories and concepts on women's health, as well as looking at these theories in practice. Edited by Lesley Doyal, the book examines schemes to put these new ideas on women and health into practice. It shows what has worked and what has not worked, pointing out what can be done to better services for women, while also showing the pitfalls and challenges to doing this.</p>
Provides a coordinated, cohesive and equitable approach to First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) program delivery issues for First Nations and Inuit living in Yukon, the Northwest Territories (NWT) and Nunavut.
Multiple Fax found: "613-954-9953 and 800-949-2718"
url (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/branch-dirgen/fnihb-dgspni/ns-sn/index_e.html) does not appear valid, changed to current link
British Columbia's Women's Hospital and Health Centre Society
Describes the results of a province-wide community consultation requested by the Minister of Health that identifies the role of BC Women's in improving the health status of women in the province, increases awareness in the province of the range of BC Women's programs and services, identifies ways in which BC Women's could work with other organizations to promote women's health in this province, and explores the perceptions of women's health needs. The report reached more than 600 women in communities across BC and almost 200 health service providers. It highlights the major themes and issues and lays a foundation for improvements within BC Women's. This report is designed to help increase understanding of women's experiences and foster renewed impetus to implement change.
