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ResourcesWHRN PrimersThe WHRN's original primer Better Science With Sex and Gender has been downloaded over 700 times by people all around the world. Download it now! The WHRN's primer Gendering the Health Determinants Framework: Why Girls' and Women's Health Matters is available online and in hard copy by request. Click here to download it now! The WHRN primer Intersectionality: Moving Women's Health Research and Policy Forward is available online. Click here to download it now! The newest WHRN primer Our Common Ground: Cultivating Women's Health Through Community Based Research is available! Click here to download it now! WHRN PodcastsThe WHRN is pleased to offer a series of podcasts on key issues in women's health in British Columbia. Click here to listen, download, and leave a comment. WHRN Special PublicationsIntersectionality - an annotated bibliography - This annotated bibliography is a tool for helping researchers with intersectionality work. It is a companion piece to the WHRN’s Intersectionality Primer, which was officially launched on February 13th 2009. Download the PDF by clicking this link... A special supplement to the Canadian Journal of Public Health is now available. Entitled Finding Dignity in Health Care and Health Care Work (Cecilia Benoit and Helga Hallgrimsdottir (co-eds.), the special CJPH supplement is available in hard copy by emailing the WHRN or you can click here to download the document (PDF). A new title, Explaining the Health Gap between Girls and Women in Canada, by Cecilia Benoit, Leah Shumka, Rachel Phillips, Helga Hallgrímsdóttir, Karen Kobayashi, Olena Hankivsky, Colleen Reid and Elana Brief is now available online. Please click here to visit the Sociological Research Online website and view the article. WHRN DatabasesWHRN-WHRI Searchable Database of Members - learn about researchers in BC, find an expert, seek a mentor, find a research partner. Click here for more>> The Survey/Le Sondage - The WHRN's Women's Health Surveillance project launched the second phase of the women's health surveillance website on Wednesday, February 13, 2008. The Survey is a searchable database of grey literature, that will link women's health practitioners, policy makers, health authorities, and women's groups to a range of resources on women's health, including international, national, and provincial documents. The Source/La Source is a bilingual web-based tool to assist researchers, policy makers, health planners, and students identify sources of health data for women and girls in British Columbia and elsewhere. Improving access to the evidence base for women’s health will better inform women’s health policy development and improve the care provided to women and girls not only in British Columbia, but across the country. The Synthesis/La Synthèse is a bilingual resource centre where health planners, policy makers, and researchers can access synthesis papers or reviews on a variety of women’s health topics. This section includes reports, briefs, position papers, and fact sheets on critical health issues. WHRN DownloadsPublic Lecture Series - streaming audio - The women's health course Exploring Social Locations, available through the support of the WHRN and Institute for Critical Studies in Gender and Health at SFU, features a public lecture series. Audio files and slides from past presentations can be streamed live from this website or downloaded here. Many thanks to the presenters for their permission to record and share these lectures. Download the new WHRN brochure (PDF) Past WHRN Events and PresentationsDownload Dr. Miriam Stewart's presentation from the WHRN's official launch in September 2005! (PDF) To coincide with our annual summer institute, the WHRN facilitated a workshop entitled Strategies to Reduce Violence & Promote the Health of BC Sex Workers (PDF). The event took place on April 30, 2008 from 9:00am - 3:00pm at the Harbour Towers Hotel & Suites. This brainstorming session was designed to offer a comprehensive understanding of the dangerous and often violent working environments experienced by both out-door and in-door sex workers in British Columbia. Our aim was to establish a set of best practices for reducing violence and promoting the health of these vulnerable women. A series of keynote speakers was featured, with academic and community-based insights on these issues, including: Cecilia Benoit, Fran Shaver, Kate Shannon, Lauren Casey and others. For more information about this event please email Kate Vallance. Click here to view a report and summary (PDF) View the presentation given by Judy Norsigian (PDF) at the WHRN co-sponsored Our Bodies, Ourselves evening in Vancouver, April 24, 2008. View the agenda, list of speakers, and selected presentations from the WHRN's Summer Institute 2007 Enriching the Conversation Read the Fall 2006 WHRN Newsletter (PDF) Download the presentation given at the WHRN workshop on women's health determinants (PDF). Take a look at the PowerPoint slides from the launch of the Gendered Data Directory held on May 5th, 2007 (PDF). View the programme of events for the WHRN's Summer Institute - Taking the Pulse of Women's Health Research in British Columbia and a press release and background document from the ad hoc Working Group on Women, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addictions (PDF). Click here for PowerPoint slides from the 2006 Summer Institute. WHRN e-newsIf you have any questions about the events and documents listed on this page, contact Susan Dixon at 778.782.8589 or email sdixon@whrn.ca. ArticlesWHRN ArticlesRead a summary and report of the WHRN workshop on Violence and Trauma in the Sex Trade (PDF) Learn more about the WHRN workshop entitled 'Untangling Sex and Gender in Health Research' (PDF) Read a summary of the WHRN workshop on Research Methodologies in Women's Health Research (PDF) and get involved with this initiative. Download a summary of the WHRN Workshop on Women's Health Determinants (PDF). Other Articles and ReportsMinding the Gap: Building a Framework to Bridge Evidence, Policy, and Practice in Chronic Disease Self-Management is the meeting proceedings report of a forum that was held June 10-12, 2009, and supported by the WHRN. Click here to download the document (PDF). ICARE (Immigrant older women - Care Accessibility Research Empowerment) Forum Report is the final report from the ICARE forum, held June 25th, 2009. Prepared by Melanie Spence, Sharon Koehn, and Karen Kobayashi on behalf of the ICARE team, the report draws attention to the health of older immigrant women, a population that has been underrepresented in health research overall.. Click here to download the report (PDF). Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Inquiries for Hope and Change is the inaugural book in "The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice" series. The text will be published by Detselig/Temeron Books in 2010. Editor is Cheryl McLean, Publisher and Editor of The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP, Associate Editor, Robert Kelly, Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Calgary. This book will be followed by two additional research based texts in the series, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Across Cultures and Communities for Change" and "Story Technology and Transformation." Click here to visit the book blog for recent updates and news. Our Bodies, Our Blog is a daily dose of women's health news and analysis. The blog is produced by Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), also known as the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (BWHBC), a nonprofit, public interest women’s health education, advocacy, and consulting organization. Click here to read the blog! The Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport, BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre, and the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health are pleased to announce the release of You and Your Health: A Woman's Guide. The Guide uses a broad approach to women's health, which includes healthy living information, disease-specific recommendations and advice, and information concerning the social determinants of health. It includes information on women-specific health concerns as well as the links between women's health and the health of their communities. It has recommendations for ways to improve health and addresses issues that may come up for women at different stages of their lives. The Guide is intended to be an everyday resource and a potential first point of contact for health information. To download your copy, please go to http://www.bccewh.bc.ca/publications-resources/default.htm BC Women's Hospital and the BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health has published its report on the Women's Health Strategy for British Columbia 2004-2008. Entitled Further Advancing the Health of Girls and Women, this important document is available for PDF download now. Click here to download the document (PDF). A PHSA (Provincial Health Services Authority) surveillance report,"Local-Level Data on Income and Poverty for BC from 2006 Census" is
available from the PHSA website (see report
under 2008). The geographic unit for reporting is Census subdivision.
Poverty data include poverty rates in total population and in children
(population under age of 18). Income data cover mean family income,
average family income and income inequalities measured by the difference
of mean and average family incomes (the larger the inequality the wider
the gap between rich and poor). The Women’s Perspectives on the Mountain Pine Beetle Forum provided a unique opportunity for women to focus their attention on an issue of great importance in our province’s history – the Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) epidemic. The gathering, which took place in March 2008, explored the social, economic and healthrelated impacts through the eyes of women from beetle-affected communities in northern BC. Download the final report here (PDF) From the National Collaborating Centres for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) Human resources for health: a gender analysis is now available online (PDF) UNIFEM has just released their report, Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009 with theme of "Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability" (lead author Anne Marie Goetz). The release of the report has been accompanied by a useful interactive website. Beyond "One Size Fits All": Gender - FORREX Forum for Research and Extension in Natural Resources (PDF) Continuing the Journey: Articulating Dimensions of Feminist Participatory Action Research (PDF) by Colleen Reid and Wendy Frisby. The primary aim of this chapter is to begin to articulate dimensions of feminist participatory
action research (FPAR). In developing the dimensions, the following questions were considered: In the North: From Corner to Corner: The Needs, Trends, and Working Conditions of Sex Workers in Prince George, British Columbia (PDF)is a new document made available through the
Prince George New Hope Society.
It is important to note that sex work has inherent choice, meaning that sex workers control and
negotiate the environment and terms. In Canada, sex work is legal; however, sections of the SHE Framework - Safety & Health Enhancement for Women Experiencing Abuse (PDF) by Jill Cory and Lynda Dechief - A tool kit for health care providers and planners to conduct an audit of their practice and/or organization. The SHE Framework raises questions about the safety of the health care system for women impacted by abuse and points to the need to enhance health care for women and includes two contrasting models: Compounding Harms and Safety and Health Enhancement. It also includes a SHE evidence paper which draws from reseach, women's stories and reports from international bodies; and a SHE Toolkit which helps health care providers, planners and policy makers with concrete tools to transfer the evidence into a safety and health enhancement plan. The SHE Framework is also available online. Women-Centred Care: A Curriculum for Health Care Providers (PDF) by Jill Cory with Robin Barnett, Shelley Rivkin, Gayla Reid, and Laurie Hasiuk. The goal of Women-Centred Care is to ensure that all girls and women receive evidence based care that respects their social, economic, physical, cultural and spiritual realties. This curriculum is based on the Framework for Women-Centred Health and is designed to support health care providers in developing and sharing knowledge and practice related to Women-Centred Care. The curriculum will help health providers build upon current Women-Centred Care practices, to create new ways of thinking and new practices and structures within health care. For more information, visit the Woman Abuse Response Program, BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre website. Read commentary from the ad hoc working group on women, mental health, substance use and addictions (PDF) regarding the Kirby Report. Read an article from the journal Rural and Remote Health entitled: Rural women caregivers in Canada Estrogen therapy for hot flushes challenged: progestin as effective as risk-laden estrogen (PDF) Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research - press release (PDF) New Texts:Gender Equity in Health: The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action - Gita Sen and Piroska Östlin (eds.) This volume brings together experts from a variety of disciplines, such as medicine, biology, sociology, epidemiology, anthropology, economics and political science, who focus on three areas: To access this text, go to www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk and select “Title” in the drop-down menu under “eBooks Search." Type in: Gender Equity in Health The Estrogen Errors: Why Progesterone is Better for Women’s Health by Susan Baxter and Jerilynn C. Prior In this revealing work, Dr. Jerilynn Prior teams up with Susan Baxter, a medical writer, to explain the controversy over medicine prescribing estrogen for perimenopausal women in the United States, and to detail why progesterone is actually a far more effective, and a far less risk-ridden, approach. Citing long-standing and emerging research, patient vignettes, and personal experience, endocrinologist Jerilynn Prior and writer Susan Baxter tell us how false beliefs on estrogen became entrenched in U.S. medicine and culture, and why business and politics have played a role in this erroneous thinking. Click here for more... Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds: Storied Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women by Parin Dossa In Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds, Parin Dossa explores the lives of Canadian Muslim women who share their stories of social marginalization and disenfranchisement in a disabling world. She shows how these women, who are subjected to social erasure in policy and research, define their identities and claim their humanity using the language of everyday life. Paradoxes and Contradictions in Health Policy Reform: Implications for First Nations Women by Jo-Anne Fiske and Annette J. Browne When governments invite the public to participate in consultations to reform health care and other policies, they generally represent themselves as calling upon citizens to engage in a social, but apolitical process. This study questions this representation by rethinking how policy is formulated and enacted and by rethinking how Aboriginal women are regarded when they engage in the health care system. This report constitutes the second of two phases of research conducted in collaboration with a First Nation community in north central British Columbia. To download or to order a copy, please browse to publications on the BCCEWH website. Women's Health in Canada: Critical Perspectives on Theory and Policy - Olena Hankivsky, Marina Morrow, and Colleen Varcoe, Editors In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women’s health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little available in the way of a general text on women’s health. This volume works toward filling that gap by providing a resource for teaching and understanding women’s health in this country. To lay out the methodological and theoretical foundations for their study, editors Olena Hankivsky, Marina Morrow, and Colleen Varcoe bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners from economics, anthropology, sociology, nursing, political studies, women’s studies, and psychology.
Developed through a partnership between the British Columbia Centre of Quantitative data about women and poverty already exist. This research provides meaning and texture to that experience of poverty, highlighting issues that quantitative research and policy analysis too often overlook. It also proposes recommendations that are in keeping with many other studies about poverty but that are rooted in the lived experience of some of the most marginalized people in Canada. This study gives an opportunity to women who have never been consulted about their own lives to provide policy input based on their experience of how federal and provincial policies interact for women at the bottom of the socioeconomic heap. The objective of this study was to document the experiences and perspectives of marginalized women who are or have been on social assistance at some time since 1996 regarding the federal and provincial social program policies that affect them, focusing primarily on social assistance and its funding mechanisms, but also including Employment Insurance (EI), child care and tax benefits. These were placed in the context of the existing quantitative literature about women living in poverty, and the changes in social security in the mid-1990s resulting in the establishment of the Canada Health and Social Transfer (CHST) Women’s experience of social program for people with low incomes This fact sheet weaves together the voices of women with critical analysis and detailed evidence on how the devolution of social programs has impacted on diverse low-income women’s lives. It provides important evidence as to why and how listening to women’s voices is critical to knowing the real issues in policy making and programming. It is based on a 2007 study entitled Integrating the voices of low-income women into policy discussions on the Canada Social Transfer CST: First Nations women in Vancouver, immigrant and refugee women in Calgary and women with disabilities in Winnipeg. It combines existing quantitative research with new qualitative research based on the perspectives of policy makers, social service providers, low-income First Nations, immigrant, refugee women and women with disabilities from three Canadian cities. e-Books ProjectLifeline e-book - Addressing Violence Perpetrated Against
Aboriginal Women in Alberta (2007) (PDF) ArchivesClick here to view archived materials of the WHRN LinksWomen's Health Research - British ColumbiaBritish Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health Child and Family Research Institute Women North Network/Northern FIRE The Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research Institute for Critical Studies in Gender and Health Women's Health Research Institute
Women's Health Research - CanadaGender and Sex-Based Analysis in Health Research: A Guide for CIHR Peer Review Committees Version française: Analyse des différences de genre et des différences de sexe dans les recherches en santé - Guide pour les comités d'examen par les pairs des IRSC Canadian Women's Health Network - CWHN Info Centre Institute of Gender and Health Bureau of Women's Health and Gender Analysis Aboriginal Women's Health and Healing Research Group Women’s College Research Institute Institute for Women's Policy Research National Coordinating Group on Health Care Reform and Women Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health Le Centre d'excellence pour la santé des femmes National Network on Environments and Women's Health Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence Rural and Remote Women's Health
Women's Health LinksBC Health Guide - Women's Health BC Ministry of Health - Women's Health The British Columbia Reproductive Mental Health Program Prince George New Hope Society Canadian Foundation For Women's Health Documentary: A Safer Sex Trade Gender and Health LinksGender Campus - The Gender Campus is the new virtual meeting place for the community of gender experts, advocates and sympathizers of the ILO International Training Centre. On-line learning courses in three languages, news, available gender tools, publications and links, and an exclusive "CyberCafé” available to all users. Wikigender - This new 'wiki' provides a unique opportunity to reach out to new communities, to engage in a bottom-up user dialogue and to test the idea of a wiki platform, in line with the 2007 Istanbul Declaration and the OECD’s proposed Global Project, Measuring the Progress of Societies. Wikigender is expected to have two important effects. First, it will improve the availability of information on gender issues globally. Second, it will encourage local allies such as labour unions, business associations and teachers to help build pressure for reform and contribute to dispelling resistance to change. Gender in child and adolescent health - A new tool to help policy-makers and professionals incorporate gender analysis into their programmes and policies, which forms part of the European strategy for child and adolescent health and development. SOPHA - Gender and Public Health - The SOPHA Program recognizes gender as a determinant of health and adheres to the belief that recognizing equal rights for women and men is critical to improving global health. Gender and Health Collaborative Curriculum Project Institute of Gender and Health (CIHR) The Department of Gender, Women and Health (WHO) UBC Culture, Gender & Health Research Unit
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