Resources

Most Canadians are exposed to fluorides on a daily basis, through the trace amounts that are found in almost all foods and through those that are added to some drinking water supplies to prevent tooth decay.

The It's Your Health article on Fluoride and Human Health has been updated by Health Canada with new information and is now available here.

This eToolkit is a product of The Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG), the K4Health Project and the U.S. Agency for International Development. It brings together an enormous wealth of gender resources in one location.

The purpose of the eToolkit is to provide practical, "how-to" methodologies and tools on gender that are designed to move health practitioners and managers from awareness and commitment to direct application and practice in policy and program design, implementation, research, capacity building and monitoring and evaluation.

The IGWG Gender and Health eToolkit is a companion site to the IGWG website which has become a premier site for gender and reproductive health information, publications, and networking. The eToolkit broadens the set of resources available to USAID staff, contractors, gender experts, and other public health specialists and service providers. It provides access to hundreds of tools, to other gender toolkits and databases, and to prominent gender and health websites throughout the world.

Technical areas of health covered in the eToolkit include, but are not limited to, sexual/reproductive health and family planning; maternal health; child health; HIV/AIDS; infectious disease; water and sanitation; and nutrition and food security.

The IGWG Gender and Health eToolkit is intended to be interactive and they welcome your input! A discussion board allows users to post comments, suggest the inclusion of other resources, and share ideas about how to use the eToolkit. The eToolkit will be updated continuously to include new, relevant tools as they become available. Offline copies of the toolkit on CD or flash drive are available upon request.

This “Mythbuster” created by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) examines questions of drug safety and regulation in Canada.

Mythbusters is a series of two-page articles that summarize the best available evidence to challenge widely held beliefs about issues in Canadian healthcare.

This World Health Organization publication Sex, gender and influenza focuses on the different effects of seasonal epidemics, pandemics and localized outbreaks of influenza on males and females including pregnant women. It concludes that significantly more research is required to gain a more complete understanding of the complex and varied effects of sex and gender on influenza infection and vaccination, and underscores the need to consider their interplay with any infectious disease of global concern.

Edited by Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, Dr Lori Hanson and Ms Patricia Thille.

In her third year of medical training -- discouraged by how little focus there was on caring -- a young woman was faced with a decision: she could throw her hands up and quit or she could risk speaking up and work toward change. She decided to send out a call (through the Canadian Women's Health Network) asking women to share their experiences of health care and caring. Her e-mail inbox immediately overflowed with stories from women across Canada. Together, this amazing group of women wrote Women Who Care. Available now through Nimbus Publishing.

Note: This book features contributions from many women who have been involved with the Canadian Women’s Health Network.

The Insititute of Gender and Health is pleased to make available online a recording of the public training session “Theory and key concepts in gender, sex, and health” held on July 6, 2010. The session features presentations by experts Drs. Joy Johnson, Blye Frank, Olena Hankivsky, and Gillian Einstein.

Please visit this website to view the recording.

Is your organization struggling to make ends meet?

Not sure how to raise the money needed for your work’s long-term success?

Wish you had an effective strategic resource development plan?

Did you answer yes to any of these questions? You are not alone.

There is stiff competition among non-profits for donors and volunteers. Groups often feel unable to compete, yet many have found success.

So how can you get there?

Thanks to funding from Ontario Women’s Directorate and Status of Women Canada, this online assessment tool was developed to help you create own effective resource development plan – whether you are a Board member, volunteer, Executive Director, or staff member in a women’s organization!

Women Thrive Worldwide has recently released a new resource: Fundraising Guide for Women’s Community-Based Organizations. Women Thrive Worldwide believes that the best way to fight global poverty is by investing in local women’s groups in the developing world.

Read more and download the guide here.

CWHN has recently produced this nine-page fact sheet in both English and French.

Health policy researcher Janet Currie produced the document for the Canadian Women`s Health Network after Dr. Barbara Mintzes's successful webinar on the topic last October.
A recording of the webinar on this topic is available here.

For pregnant women or women contemplating pregnancy, reading literature about depression, pregnancy and medication often leaves them feeling only more confused. This fact sheet is intended to point out what is and is not known in the medical literature concerning the use of SSRI anti-depressants during pregnancy and, for women who decide ultimately that they do not want to start or continue using antidepressants, offers helpful information on how to come off them. It also offers some other options for dealing with depression and some resources for further reading.

The Institute of Gender and Health presents present volume 1, issue 2 of its biannual newsletter Intersections. This issue is dedicated to IGH's strategic research direction "clinical interventions: enhancing effectiveness". This issue highlights key examples of advances and achievements in this field, and the researchers behind these stories. The newsletter also shines the spotlight on trainees, profile successes in knowledge translation, and feature news at IGH and in the gender, sex, and health research community.

Intersections is available online in html and pdf formats.