British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (BCCEWH)

Examines smoking cessation interventions to determine the most effective strategies to faciliate smoking cessation both during pregnancy and into the postpartum period.

Briefly reports on a research project that studied the health benefits and risks of physical activity for girls and women.

Reports on a research project that studied the factors that influence whether action is taken in a community to increase poor women's access to community recreation.

Reports on a research project that reviewed and studied the most promising intervention components and approaches to smoking cessation in pregnancy.

Describes an approach to understanding girls' and women's health and provides background information to promote the development of initiatives to integrate girls' and women's health into research, policy and clinical care.

Examines the over-prescription of benzodiazepines to women in Canada. Urges the establishment of clinical practice guidelines on the use and prescribing of these drugs and sleeping pills.

Examines ways to enhance recreation service provision for women living in poverty.

Describes and evaluates four mental health demonstration projects designed for women with chronic and persistent mental health problems in four difference communities in British Columbia.

Looks at the sex trade from a work perspective, arguing that there is an urgent need to give voice to sex workers located in indoor as well as outdoor venues.

Details how most sex trade workers see the sex trade is their main means of making a living, and that those working on the street experience comparatively less occupational control and more harassment than counterparts located in indoor venues. Examines how the criminal nature of the sex trade in Canada has a dramatic impact on workers’ rights and safety. Explores how most sex trade worker report that their health is not what they would like it to be, that only a minority escape from their situations through the use of illicit addictive substances, and that even those who have permanently exited continue to struggle with mental health and related problems. Suggests the need for a variety of frontline and preventive health services.