Version imprimableIn this issue:
- Book launch: Thinking Women and Health Care Reform in Canada
- Listen to the webinar: What a difference sex and gender make
- Not Just VICTIMS: Women in Emergencies and Disasters – order yours free
- New sex & gender-based analysis resource workshop (Winnipeg)
- New online resource: Expecting to Quit
- Pink Ribbons Inc. - See the movie!
- Consultation on Maternity and Newborn Care National Guidelines
- Trauma-informed practice in mental health and substance use fields
- CMAJ argues for new rules to curb sex selection
- An evening of awareness and education to support NEDIC (Toronto)
1. Book launch: Thinking Women and Health Care Reform in Canada
The Canadian Women’s Health Network and the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health are pleased to launch: Thinking Women and Health Care Reform in Canada by Pat Armstrong, Barbara Clow, Karen Grant, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Beth Jackson, Ann Pederson and Morgan Seeley on Feb. 9 in Ottawa. Read more.
2. Listen to the webinar: What a difference sex and gender make
Listen to the Webinar of January 31 of the official launch of the CIHR-IGH gender, sex and health research casebook! Presented by the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health and the Canadian Women's Health Network. Read more.
3. Not Just VICTIMS: Women in Emergencies and Disasters – order yours free
When disaster strikes, how are women affected differently than men? Not Just VICTIMS: Women in Emergencies and Disasters is a clearly written and accessible guide to how women are affected by – and can be a valuable resource in dealing with – disaster. Read more.
4. New sex & gender-based analysis resource workshop
You are invited to a free hands-on introduction to a new e-learning website on SGBA, presented by Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence, with BC & Atlantic Centres of Excellence for Women's Health, in Winnipeg on February 2. Read more.
5. New online resource: Expecting to Quit
The British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health invites you to visit a new website, recently launched in both English and French, about smoking, pregnancy, change and support. Read more.
6. Pink Ribbons Inc. – starting February 3!
“We used to march in the streets: now you’re supposed to run for a cure, or walk for a cure, or jump for a cure, or whatever it is . . . the effect of the whole pink ribbon culture was to drain and deflect the kind of militancy we had as women who were appalled to have a disease that is epidemic and yet that we don’t even know the cause of.” – Barbara Ehrenreich. Read more.
7. Consultation on Maternity and Newborn Care National Guidelines
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) has been mandated by the Public Health Agency of Canada to determine the interest of various stakeholders for a revision to the Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care National Guidelines. A short survey was developed. Read more.
8. Trauma-informed practice in mental health and substance use fields
SystemAction, Canada’s national knowledge exchange network in support of the National Treatment Strategy, has lined up their second free webinar of 2012, to be offered on, February 7, 2012, with Nancy Poole, Director of Research and Knowledge Translation at the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. Read more.
9. CMAJ argues for new rules to curb sex selection
An editorial in a January Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has opened the debate on selective abortion of female fetuses, and how much this is happening in Canada. Rajendra Kale, interim editor of the CMAJ, called for a ban on disclosing the sex of a fetus until 30 weeks. Read more.
10. Come out to an evening of awareness and education to support NEDIC
Come out and support the National Eating Disorder Information Centre by attending an evening of awareness and education at in Toronto, February 2nd, 2012. Read more.
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Canadian Women's Health Network