Provides an inventory of health-related issues facing homeless women in Toronto. Explores the obstacles these women encounter in accessing acute, preventative, and other kinds of health care.
Delivers a current and comprehensive compilation of data and trends on women's health in the United States. Focuses on the impact of social and economic factors in women's health, perinatal and reproductive health, infections, chronic conditions, mental health, health behaviors, violence against women, and access, utilization and quality of healthcare.
Describes the links between literacy and health. Provides documented examples of workshops held to promote the ideas of health litercay and plain language health information to health care workers in Manitoba. Lists the strengths and weaknesses of each type of intervention.
Discusses the significant health impacts of literacy. Identifies why literacy is a health issue and thus is relevant to the mandate of Health Canada. Touches upon some of the mechanisms by which literacy affects health, and suggests some of the ways in which the health field can respond. Begins with a brief consideration of the actual literacy skills of Canadians. Reviews the evidence that indicates the impact of literacy on health. Considers the mechanisms by which literacy affects health, both in direct ways, such as the incorrect use of medications, failure to comply with medical directions, errors in infant formula administration, and safety risks, and indirectly via living and working conditions, personal health practices and coping skills, the physical environment, health services, and biology and genetic endowment. Also considers the relations of literacy to other determinants of health.
Proceedings of a national workshop which focused on two issues: (1) the impact of the health and social service systems on senior women and the role of health professionals and caregivers and (2) economic self-sufficiency, with an emphasis n the feminization of poverty, pensions, and housing. Includes "Ideas for Action", a synopsis of the conference presentations, and eight articles from the conference.
Considers some of the social, historical and cultural contexts that have shaped women's health experiences and made them different from those of men. Explorex five main themes that are prominent in the social sciences and feminist literature on women and health: (1) the health inequalities between women and men, and among women; (2) the social/historical development of these differences; (3) the health implications of women's paid and unpaid work; (4) the biomedical model and the medicalization of women's health, and (5) women's resistance and advocacy.
<p>Includes bibliographical references. --- Review, Network Winter 2001: Lesbian and bisexual women reveal the importance of community in their lives and its relationship to their health. The community serves multiple functions, providing emotional and tangible resources for women and a sense of belonging in an isolating, heterosexist society. At the same time, sexual health can suffer when a community imposes expected rules for behavior. Finding a place in community carries implications for health in its broadest sense.</p>
