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Centres of Excellence for Women's Health
Program (CEWHP) Update Fall 1999
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National
Network on Environments and Women's Health
Executive Co-ordinator: Marilou McPhedran
Project Manager: Janine Cocker
Project Assistants: Tukiso Muzondo, Nicole Winston, Nichelle Jackson
and Heather Northcott
Centre for Health Studies
York University
214 York Lanes
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
Web site: www.yorku.ca/nnewh
The National Network on Environments
and Women's Health (NNEWH) is the only nationally- based Centre
of Excellence. Housed within the Centre for Health Studies at
York University, NNEWH is a multidisciplinary network of social
researchers and community partners working collaboratively to
develop social measures and appropriate strategies for a new
kind of health research by, on and about women. NNEWH's partners,
drawn from across Canada, include scholars from disciplines including
anthropology, ethics, history, sociology, political science and
law. Community partners are local and national agencies whose
work complements and broadens NNEWH'S activities.
NNEWH's mission is to use research, networking, and training
to improve knowledge and policy pertaining to the social determinants
of women's health. The methods and theories of social science
are used to develop more effective and appropriate methods for
collecting and interpreting data about women's health, for grounding
research in women's lived experiences, and for translating research
into policy.
Ongoing Research
NNEWH's projects explore
women's health practices, perceptions of risk, and strategies
for change in three key environments that shape women's health:
- workplaces;
- health systems; and
- policy
Since March 1997, NNEWH has provided
20 seed grants and funded 17 projects. Assessment of the impacts
of health reform on women has become a major focus. Many funded
projects are designed to offer better data and analyses of the
impacts of home care, long-term care, workplace restructuring,
and pharmaceutical, biotechonologies and complementary care regulation
on communities of women who live in different regions. Missing
Voices in Long Term Policy Making seeks to make visible the
perspectives and aspirations of disabled, frail-elderly women
who live in Ontario. A study of urban, Aboriginal health centres
assesses sensitivity to Aboriginal women's concerns.
Women's Health Forum
NNEWH's networking activities
bring together diverse communities concerned with women's health.
In the fall of 1998, NNEWH co-sponsored a Women's Health Forum,
an annual event organized by our community partner, the Women's
Health Network, Newfoundland and Labrador. This forum provided
health service providers, educators, researchers, policy makers
and community groups an opportunity to share their work and to
discuss, from an interdisciplinary and intersectoral perspective,
priorities for women's health in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Women's Health Course Modules
In order to train a new
generation of researchers, NNEWH is developing a series of modules
for a course on women's health. These modules are designed to
introduce the range of literatures and methods needed to study
women's health. The curriculum can be used in standard university
and college classrooms and can also be adapted to the needs of
summer institutes and distance education, or special courses
for a wide range of students that might include care providers
and policy makers.
Working Group on Women and Health
Protection
NNEWH's research mandate is national in scope, hence we have
formed collaborative relationships with a number of the other
Centres of Excellence and have taken a lead in coordinating study
of the impacts of new genetics, health care reform, and health
protection changes on women's health. In 1998, NNEWH partners
spearheaded the formation of the Working Group on Women and Health
Protection. Comprised of academics, lawyers, and community workers
from the Centres of Excellence and beyond, the group's objectives
include assessment of the impacts of restructuring of the federal
Health Protection Branch on women, and making policy recommendations.
The group has held wide-ranging consultations with policy makers,
researchers, and communities, and it has produced a number of
framework and briefing papers.
Some Recent Publications
A Different Prescription:
Considerations for Women's Health Groups Contemplating Funding
from the Pharmaceutical Industry by
Anne Rochon Ford
How safe are our medicines? Monitoring the risks of drugs
after they are approved for marketing by DES Action Canada
Shifting Connections: A Report on Emerging Federal Policy
Relating to Women's Health, the New Genetics and Biotechnology
by Constance MacIntosh for the Working Group on Women and the
New Genetics
Women, Privatization and Health Reform: The Ontario Case
by Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong
For further information,
please contact:
NNEWH
Telephone: (416) 736-5941
Fax: (416) 736-5986
E-mail: nnewh@yorku.ca
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