This article profiles several feminist organizations and programs. Highlights organizations working to support the elderly, immigrant women, women and mental health, gay and lesbian communities, francophone women, women working as prostitutes, women with addictions, etc.
This article speaks to the Gatekeepers Health Project in Thompson, Manitoba and the challenges they experience to improve health promotion. Explains their experience in developing necessary programs in the north with little funding.
Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE)
Media Type:
Online
Author:
Brigette Krieg
Diane Martz
Lisa McCallum
The Northwest Métis Women’s Health Research Project investigated the health care needs of elderly women and their caregivers in the Métis community of Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan. The research project looked at access to home care and longterm care services for elderly women in the particular demographic, social, cultural and economic context of northern Métis communities. The goal of the project was to recommend appropriate home care and long term care policies for northern Métis communities and to ensure that these policies will be responsive to women’s needs as care recipients, care providers and caregivers. By looking at the specific needs of women, the research project hoped to raise awareness of gender as an important factor to consider in developing and implementing policies related to care of the elderly.
Discusses the Communities Achieving Responsive Services (CARS) for Women and Children in Rural, Remote, Northern and Aboriginal Communities program, which helps residents in rural, remote, northern and Aboriginal communities across Canada increase their involvement in the development and delivery of local services.
Explores the perceptions of inner-city residents and service providers to represent their ideas about building healthy communities. Provides a series of recommendations for involving residents in community building.
Provides information to prepare nurses to provide care with women from menarche to menopause, while empowering and encouraging each woman's ability for decision-making and self-care. Focuses on nursing interventions with the individual woman within the context of her family and her community, discusses complementary and medical therapies, and covers interactions with women during both outpatient and inpatient care. Includes an interactive CD-ROM of critical thinking case studies from a community-based/home care perspective, NCLEX review questions, community-based activities, a vocabulary review with sound pronunciations, and examples of forms for charting care.
Discusses the relationship between body image, self esteem and mental health. Suggests programs that can assist adolescents and all community members increase body satisfaction.
Explores the nature of caring in Canada, and examines reseach on women, home care and unpaid caregiving. Identifies the social conditions under which caregiving is undertaken. Also examines the experiences of women who care.
Includes bibliographical references and index. --- Review, May 2004: The Canadian health care system is undergoing steady change, but one thing that remains constant is the key role that women play in providing care. Women are estimated to comprise nearly 80% of both the paid and unpaid care workers in this country.
Yet, their numbers do not coincide with their influence. Government reforms such as the introduction of market systems in health care may result in some cost efficiencies, but not necessarily better working conditions for those who care, much less better care for those who need it. Similarly, the increasing transfer of patients into community care may mean that individuals are able to convalesce in more familiar surroundings and with the people they love. But the added burden on family members - usually women - may mean forgone paid work, not to mention changes in personal relationships between those who care and those who are cared for and about.
Forme un organisme qui oeuvre a être le porte-parole du secteur des soins et services communautaires qui englobent les services de soutien à domicile, les soins prolongés en établissement et d'autres programmes d'entraide tels que les programmes de livraison de repas. Promeut une gamme de soins et services communautaires de haute qualité, souples, réceptifs et accessibles à l'intérieur d'un continuum ininterrompu de services de santé.
