Impact on women

This study explores patient classification systems and their impact on front-line workers in rural long-term care homes in Ontario and Manitoba.

Discusses, in response to the Chaoulli decision, the direct and indirect effects of privatized health care on women.

Looks at the implications for women of richer countries' recruitment of health care workers from developing countries.

Examines primary health care reforms and their impact on women and their health. Argues that they are about women’s work even though women are not the ones making most of the decisions.

Looks at the reasons for women's increased vulnerability to HIV infection. Explores actions governments and policy-makers can take to help stem the tide of infection rates.

Explores the visible and not so visible aspects of health care reforms, using political economy perspectives.

Explores the effects that Canada's trade agreements may have on the health of Canadian women.

States that women have specific nutritional needs and vulnerabilities and, as such, are at unique risk for various nutrition-related diseases and conditions.

Explores the impact that HIV and AIDS have had on the role that all over the world women are expected to take in domestic work and in providing care to family members.

Examines the consequences of applying the qualifier "genetic" to health and to health care. Raises similar questions about the effects of identifying certain health matters as being about gender, as distinct from sex, pointing out how the increasing marketing of, and markets for, genetics and women's health, constantly twist the meaning of these words as well as co-opt the concept of "choice."