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Centres of Excellence for Women's Health
Program (CEWHP) Update Fall 1999
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Key
Facts About the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health Program
(CEWHP)
Who supports the program?
The CEWHP is funded by
Health Canada and administered by the Women's Health Bureau.
The
work of the program is a major component of Health Canada's Women's
Health Strategy.
What does the CEWHP hope to accomplish?
The program's ultimate
goal is to improve women's health by generating knowledge, information
and policy advice that can be applied to make the health system
more responsive to women's distinctive health needs.
Where are the Centres located and
how much funding do they receive?
The five Centres of Excellence for Women's Health selected for
federal funding by Health Canada are located in Halifax, Montreal,
Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Each will have received approximately
$2 million over the six-year life of the program, which concludes
in 2001/02.
What is unique about the way the Centres operate?
Each Centre is a dynamic
partnership of academics, researchers, health care providers
and community-based women's and women's health organizations.
Each has a broad mandate that includes generating knowledge,
providing policy advice and disseminating information on women's
health.
The Centres do not conduct biomedical or clinical research. Rather,
they engage in multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral work using
a "determinants of health approach." This approach
recognizes that health is much more than a matter of medical
care and that a wide range of social, cultural, political and
economic factors interact to affect people's well-being. It also
recognizes that these determinants play out differently in women's
and men's lives.
What exactly do the Centres do?
Individually and collectively,
the Centres:
- identify key women's health
issues and research them;
- produce health data that is
sensitive to gender differences;
- communicate the knowledge they
generate;
- build local, national networks
that bring together researchers, community and policypartners
working to improve the health of women;
- provide analysis, advice and
information to governments, agencies and individuals involved
in health and policy;
- help define a women's health
research agenda for Canada.
What are some of the specific issues
the Centres are looking at?
The Centres are examining current health system issues such as
the impact of health reform on women and women's health; patterns
of health service provision to women; women's experience with
the health system; influences on health; and the health needs
of women across different life circumstances. Please see the
section on each Centre for details.
How do the Centres network with each other and with other interested
groups and
individuals?
The Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN) is funded by Health
Canada to provide national coordination of the networking and
communications components of the Centres' program. The CWHN works
with the Centres and other interested organizations and individuals
at the national, regional and community level to build links
and support the flow of women's health information across all
strata and sectors. Please see page 10 to find out more about
the Canadian Women's Health Network.
For more information on the CEWHP, contact:
CEWHP staff at Health Canada
Manager: Lynne Dee Sproule, M.Ed.
Policy Analyst: Elizabeth Marsollier, Ph.D.
Program Officer: Marilena Schieda, M.A.
Administrative Assistant: Carole Carbonneau, B.Admin.
Centres of Excellence for Women's Health Program & Research
Women's Health Bureau
Health Canada
Brooke Claxton Building - 0911A
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0K9
E-mail: cewhp@hc-sc.gc.ca
Telephone: (613) 952-0795
Fax: (613) 941-8592
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