Centres of Excellence for Women's Health - Consortium Université de Montréal (CESAF)

Examine the support needs of caregivers, their expectations regarding support services, the adequacy of existing services, and which services, interventions or practitioners faciliate caregiver empowerment.

Examines the health experiences of immigrant and refugee women and looks at whether they are receiving adequate and appropriate care from the Canadian health care system.

Describes the features of a system of gender-sensitive indicators that would more adequately measure women's health. Offers criteria for the selection of these indicators.

Investigates factors associated with the immigrant experience that may increase vulnerability to health risks during the perinatal period of pregnancy.

Discusses how to take research and community findings into public consultations to change policy at the local community health level.

This conference underlined how some components of diversity, such as culture, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, and geographic location, simultaneously influence women's health. The diversity of research methods, interventions, processes and partnerships were discussed. As well, success stories and recommendations when accounting for diversity were featured. An overview of research and interventions concerning women's health were presented in order to identify and discuss the complexities of issues relative to the integration of diversity in the academic, community, health services and policy areas. It was expected that existing networks would be consolidated and new ones created to advocate policies that are sensitive to the diverse health needs of women.

Examines the scope and nature of privatization trends in the health care system in Quebec and its consequences for women.

Provides an inventory of health and social indicators in Canadian and international literature as they relate to women’s health. Discusses conceptual frameworks and health determinants and their impact on women’s health.

Highlights a number of unexpected consequences of health and social service policies that were developed without consideration for their impact on women caregivers.

Presents a synthesis of the research activities of CESAF, including an overview of the Montreal Centre of Excellence, its partners, its research program and its acheivements from 1997-2000.