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Canada’s first strategy to improve the mental health of all Canadians was publicly released by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (Commission) this week, which is Mental Health Week.
Visit the Commission’s website for more information about the strategy and to download Changing Directions, Changing Lives [3].
The strategy includes some discussion about disparities and social determinants and has a short section on gender and sexual orientation and pieces on patient's rights.
Stay tuned for responses to this strategy over the coming days and weeks, on how the strategy has responded to appeals for a stronger gender analysis in mental health that the CWHN and the centres of excellence in women’s health have been asking for, for many years.
To learn more about current research into gender and mental health in Canada, visit The Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health [4] at Simon Fraser University.