This article profiles four women's health organizations working with immigrant women. Identifying needs and what constitutes culturally appropriate care.
This article is an exploration of medical conditioning; Questions how it happens; How this conditioning shapesourviews on health, disease, and the kinds of medical treatment we receive; Highlights Vancouver Women’s Health Collective and their efforts to interrupt their medical conditioning in their work.
Caters to to African immigrants and African Canadians and is dedicated to the promotional of the mental, socio-economic, physical and cultural health of African Canadians, primarily in Ontario. Offers an inter-African HIV/AIDS project that provices supportive education, counselling, and referral and practical support for urban youth, young adults including gay and lesbian youth, troubled youth, youth with addictions and those involved in prostitution.
Provides an overview of the critical health issues that affect immigrants and refugees in Canada and describes the attempts of the Immigrant/Refugee Health Program of the North Hamilton Community Health Centre to meet their needs. Includes references.
Sets out the case for strengthening primary care and proposes a key part of the solution - the creation of a network of community health centres in each province.
Provides a nurse managed, community-based accessible health resource for the communities of St. Vital and St. Boniface. Provides a place where individuals and families can work on their health concerns with health professionals or with other people who have had similar experiences. Offers the following programs and services: Ask a nurse, Children and youth, Community building, Diabetes education resource, Healthy lifestyles for adults, Emotional/spiritual/mental health, Nutrition, Parenting resources, Prenatal services, Public health nurses, and Seniors.
Internal Notes :
<p>Multiple Fax found: "204- 233-1520 and 204- 255-4903" Multiple Primary found: "204- 233-0262 and 204- 255-4840" Found multiple addresses: -- street: "#6 - 845 Dakota Street" -- street2: "" -- city: "Winnipeg" -- province: "Manitoba" -- postalcode: "R2M 5M3" -- country: "Canada" Found multiple addresses: -- street: "33, rue Marion" -- street2: "" -- city: "Winnipeg" -- province: "Manitoba" -- postalcode: "R2H 0S3" -- country: "Canada" multiple languages found - // in abstract</p>
Forms a community-based charitable organization offering a broad range of primary health care, legal services, counselling, housing help and community support programs to residents of York. Services are targeted to families at risk, primarily single mothers and low-income families, newcomers and refugees, adults with developmental and/or mental health difficulties and seniors and the frail elderly - with the overall goal of building healthy families, individuals and communities.
Works to maximize the health status of multicultural communities through activities that respond to their cultural, linguistic, educational, legal & social needs.
Supports Chinese and South Asian women in taking greater control of their lives. Provides cultural and language specific services. These community determined strategies are developed and delivered by immigrant women.
