Community health workers

This article highlights the struggle to find housing for ex-psychiatric patients. Explores resources available. Identifies cultural stigmas and systemic barriers in place. 

This article highlights reasons why a Canadian Women's Health Network is necessary. Outlines the importance of maintaining a united pro choice feminist voice on women on health issues. 

Illustrates the role and value of using Aboriginal community liaison workers within a mainstream health service. PDF reader required.

Provides a manual designed for confronting HIV in places with few medical resources. Includes information on prevention strategies, low-cost care for people with HIV and their families, and guidelines for using ART.

Assesses the socio-economic costs and benefits for both female and male informal and formal caregivers providing palliative home care (focusing on the last month of life) to a cancer or AIDS patient. Examines a comprehensive set of costs and benefits-including social, economic, emotional, psychological and spiritual-experienced by these caregivers.

Analyzes gender differences, differences between formal and informal caregivers, and regional (British Columbia, Quebec and Nova Scotia) and diagnosis-related differences between male and female palliative caregivers.

Examines how the work lives and health of paid home care practitioners were affected by restructuring strategies implemented by the Saskatoon District Health Home Care.

Tells the story of a front line community health worker, experience in a difficult profession witnessing the misery that is being perpetuated in the name of balanced budgets.