This article explores the portrayals of women in medical advertising. Illustrates how pharmaceutical companies use negative stereotypes of women in order to sell drugs to doctors. Impact on women's health and quality of care. Ethics of drug advertising.
Provides an overview of male/female differences in health status, health service use, and quality of care, as revealed by analysis of administrative health care data files.
Systematically reviews the evidence to determine the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve the quality of healthcare and/or to reduce disparities for ethnic minorities. Focuses on evaluations of interventions aimed at healthcare providers or organizations. Broadly examines any type of strategy aimed at improving the quality of care in an ethnic minority population of patients, and then looks more specifically at strategies designed to improve the cultural competence of healthcare providers or organizations.
Presents strategies and approaches to review not only the levels of maternal mortality, but also to examine why it happens and what can be done to prevent them from happening.
Investigates the specific needs, unique barriers and existing gaps in service for transpeople in Ontario. Reveals that access and equity around overall health care and social services for transpeople poses numerous challenges/barriers for this highly marginalized community.
Describes a balanced contraception counselling strategy as an ongoing approach to improving quality of care. Outlines the origin and rationale for developing this strategy, and details its subsequent adaptation for use in other contexts.
Surveys U.S. physicians' views of the effect of direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs on health service utilization, quality of care, and the doctor-patient relationship.
