Women's health
Subtitle: intersections of policy, research, and practice
By: edited by Pat Armstrong and Jennifer Deadman
Publisher: Women's Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780889614666
Subjects: Women; Health and hygiene; Women's health services; Minority women; Medical policy; Medicine; Research; Gender mainstreaming; Minorities; Gender identity; Women's Health; Women's Health Services; Minority Groups; Gender Identity; Health Policy; Femmes; Santé et hygiène; Services de santé; Femmes issues des minorités; Politique sanitaire; Médecine; Recherche; Analyse différenciée selon les sexes; Minorités; Identité sexuelle; Sex role
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Women, gender, and health research / Lorraine Greaves; title: ch. 2. Integrating women's health and gender analysis in a government context : reflections on a work in progress / Sari Tudiver; title: ch. 3. Waiting to wait : improving wait times evidence through gender-based analysis / Beth E. Jackson, Ann Pederson, and Madeline Boscoe; title: ch. 4. Women and health : taking the matter to heart / Beth Abramson; title: ch. 5. Pathways into in-patient psychiatric services for women who are mothering and living with serious mental illness / Phyllis Montgomery and Cheryl Forchuk; title: ch. 6. Healthy living and Aboriginal women : the tension between hard evidence and soft logic / Medeleine Dion Stout; title: ch. 7. Older immigrant women's health : from the triple jeopardy to cultural competency / Josie Chundamala, Tracey Matsuo, and Ito Peng; title: ch. 8. Women, disability, and the right to health / Paula C. Pinto; title: ch. 9. Using photovoice to explore rural older women's health promotion needs and resources / Beverly D. Leipert and Jennifer Smith; title: ch. 10. The health and well-being of sexual and gender minority women : still struggling with silence and invisibility / Anna Travers; title: ch. 11. Women, health care, and health human resources / Cathy Fooks; title: ch. 12. Ancillary workers : forgotten women in health care / Pat Armstrong; title: ch. 13. Midwifery in Ontario : opportunities for women's health policy research / Wendy Katherine; title: ch. 14. Nurses on the front lines of health care / Linda Silas and Arlene Wortsman; title: ch. 15. Women in the response community : gendered impacts of bio-disasters / Tracey O'Sullivan and Carol Amaratunga; title: ch. 16. Crossing the chasms : research, policy, and advocacy / Arlene S. Bierman; title: ch. 17. Marginalized women's voices : crucial for research, policy, and practice / Tekla Hendrickson; title: ch. 18. Women and a fair income : knowledge into action / Cathie Scott and Wilfreda E. Thurston; title: ch. 19. Documenting change : lessons from the women's health movement / Laura Sky.