Health information

An electronic review journal that takes the best available evidence on sexual and reproductive health from Cochrane systematic reviews and presents it as practical actions for clinicians (and policy-makers) to improve health outcomes, especially in developing countries.

An Internet portal is designed to provide easy access to key information about health literacy in Canada for health professionals, researchers and interested individuals. Features the Expert Panel on Health Literacy’s final report as well as links to other key Canadian and international health literacy resources.

The new edition  focuses on women's reproductive health and sexuality and includes dozens of personal stories and essential, up-to-date information about gender identity, sexual orientation, birth control, abortion, pregnancy and birth, perimenopause, menopause, health issues such as breast and ovarian cancers, and sexuality and sexual health as we age.  Also addresses: changes in the healthcare system, safer sex, environmental health risks, body image, and local and global activism.

Sex workers are among those who are most vulnerable to HIV infection in the world today. This information sheet presents where and how violence against sex workers and HIV/AIDS do intersect and the opportunities to address violence against sex workers in HIV/AIDS programmes.

This article describes the POWER (Project for an Ontario Women's Health Evidence-Based Report) Study who are producing a women's health equity report that measures the health of Ontarians, the performance of the health care system , gender differences in access to, quality and outcomes of care for the leading causes of morbidity and mortality.  A full copy of the POWER study report is available online at http://www.powerstudy.ca/the-power-report/the-power-report-volume-1/cardiovascular-disease.

Explores why and where mothers of young children look for online health information and how they determine if the information they receive is trustworthy.

Determines whether domain-independent technical quality criteria can identify potentially harmful online complementary and alternative medicine content.

Determines how low-literacy adults independently access and evaluate health information on the Internet. Identifies challenges and areas of proficiency in the Internet-searching skills of low-literacy adults.

Investigates Internet access, use and acceptability as a means for health promotion and health service delivery among HIV-positive youth.