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Women's Health DeterminantsAn interdisciplinary working group consisting of academic and community-based researchers with an interest in continuing work on the issues raised in the synthesis paper and during the videoconferenced discussion was created. Other key initiatives:
The WHRN primer Gendering the Health Determinants Framework: Why Girls' and Women's Health Matters is now available. Click here to download it now! PublicationsHealth Determinants primer: Gendering the Health Determinants Framework: Why Girls' and Women's Health Matters. This document was created to bring conceptual clarity to what is meant by a health determinants framework (HDF) and to examine its usefulness in understanding the health of a particular population group – girls and women – who face disadvantage due to structural inequities that limit their access to, and control over, material and symbolic resources, and over their bodies and lives. The primer examines the main health determinants discussed in the academic literature, consider the salience of sex and gender as health determinants and how they interact in the real world with other key factors in shaping health outcomes – most importantly, socioeconomic status, ethnicity and race. We argue that the HDF has much to contribute to our understanding of women’s health if it is gendered, places equity at centre stage, and develops analytic tools and methods to capture the multi-level ordering of health determinants and their intersections. Click here to download the primer! Finding Dignity in Health Care and Health Care Work. This special supplement is now in circulation from the Canadian Journal of Public Health. The supplement is comprised of a series of papers that grew out of a WHRN supported international conference highlighting the social factors linked to dignity in health care and health care work in formal and informal settings during a period of major reform in social welfare systems in Canada and other high-income countries. Funding for this publication is in part from the WHRN, and supported by funds leveraged from two CIHR Institutes (IPPH and IGH) and from UVic’s Office of Research Services and two Deans. Click here to download the document (PDF). Highlighted Past Events and ActivitiesChallenging Myths and Misperceptions: Working to Reduce Stigma and Enhance Public Understanding of People Who Work in the Sex IndustryJanuary 16th & 17th, 2009 - Victoria, BC The University of Victoria Hub of the WHRN hosted an international conference on January 16th and 17th, 2009, at the Bedford Regency Hotel in downtown Victoria. The conference - Challenging Myths and Misperceptions: Working to Reduce Stigma and Enhance Public Understanding of People Who Work in the Sex Industry - included a public lecture the evening of Friday, January 16th. This session featured researchers from across Canada and New Zealand, presenting the latest research on the effects of different policy environments on the health and well-being of people who work in the sex industry. A day-long workshop was held January 17th,with informal presentations and participant-led discussion aimed at designing an educational curriculum that can be used to reframe publicly-held stereotypes of sex workers.Click here to view the agenda (PDF). Click here for background data from New Zealand (PDF). Click here to download a legal policy document (PDF).
WHRN workshop on the Impact of Trauma and Violence on Vulnerable Women's Health - April 30, 2008, Victoria, BC This provincial workshop brought together community and academic researchers and frontline agencies concerned about the health and well-being of one of the most vulnerable populations in our province – people involved in the sex industry. Because of its semi-illegal nature and the heated debate surrounding it, seldom do researchers and community service providers from diverse sectors find themselves together in the same room to interchange evidence and discuss policy relating to how to reduce the trauma and violence experienced by sex workers in BC and better promote their safety and health. This workshop provided a safe forum for discuss and debate and will for the basis of a larger conference on the topic planned for the fall 2008. In the meanwhile, we are planning to develop a series of facts sheets profiling the research that has been completed/is ongoing by BC researchers. Click here for the workshop agenda. Transitioning into Adulthood: Theory, Research, Practice & Policy - October 25 & 26, 2007, Victoria, BC The conference featured speakers from Canada, the United States and New Zealand, focusing on the key issues in making healthy transitions to adulthood; the influence of location, culture and family and how gender impacts transitions. The Health Determinants research cluster helped launch and fund this conference on the health and well-being of youth in transition to adulthood. A number of presentations focused on the situation of girls and young women, a population of interest to WHRN but to a large degree under-researched compared to the situation of adult women. The conference was co-funded by the Child and Youth Health Research Network, and involved extensive community group interaction, as well as representation from health authorities and the Ministries of Health and Child and Family Development. A summary conference report has been prepared and circulated widely Stigma: A Hidden Women's Health Determinant - November 8th, 2006, Vancouver, BC - an interactive panel discussion (PDF) Comparative Perspectives on Gender, Health Care Work and Social Citizenship Rights - View the PowerPoint slides from this international workshop Launch Workshop A videoconferenced workshop linking six sites around the province was held on Friday, February 10th, 2006 from 1pm-3pm to kick off this project. View the PowerPoint slides here (PDF). For a summary of the workshop, download the PDF. The workshop to launch this research cluster, led by WHRN Co-Leader Dr. Cecilia Benoit at the University of Victoria, focused on the investigation of past and current research into the determinants of women's health from provincial, national, and international perspectives. Click here to read the draft synthesis paper which formed the basis for discussion during this session (PDF).
For more information, contact WHRN Co-Leader Cecilia Benoit or Cluster Coordinators Leah Shumka and Diane Barlee at the University of Victoria.
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January 1, 2010
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