Still Making Waves
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Citation STILL MAKING WAVES Greaves, L. & Pederson, A. Still Making Waves: 10 Year Report. British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (BCCEWH). Vancouver: British Colum- bia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health; 2007.
This publication is also available on the Internet at: www.bccewh.bc.ca 10 Year Report Contact Information 1996 - 2006
British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health E311 – 4500 Oak Street, Box 48 Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3N1 CANADA
The mission of the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Phone: 604 875 2633 Women’s Health is to improve the health of women by fostering Fax: 604 875 3716 collaboration on innovative, multi-disciplinary research Email: [email protected] endeavours and action-oriented approaches to women’s health Web: http://www.bccewh.bc.ca initiatives, women-centred programs, and health policy. We pay particular attention to policy that will improve the health status of The British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (BCCEWH) and C C women who are marginalized and who face multiple disadvantages its activities and products have been made possible through a financial contri- M M in health due to socio-economic status, race, culture, age, sexual bution from Health Canada. The opinions expressed in this publication are those Y Y orientation, geography, disability, and/or addiction. of the authors and contributors. The views expressed herein do not necessarily CM CM
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Copyright © British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, 2007 backdrop_left.pdf 12/18/2006 1:51:24 PM 1:51:24 12/18/2006 backdrop_left.pdf backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
his report was prepared by Lorraine Greaves, Ann Pederson, and Leanna TRose, and its production coordinated by Christina Schmidt, Natasha Jategaonkar and Janet Neely. Thanks to Lionel Matecha and the design team at Graphically Speaking Services Inc. for their support in bringing this document to life, and to the entire team at the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health for their contributions. We also want to thank the people who provided us with testimo- nials about our past ten years. We appreciate your support for our work. We thank the many individuals who have contributed to the Centre over the past decade. We have been fortunate to have been home to a large number of energetic and creative people. Whether as students, researchers, staff, volun- teers, advisors, or collaborators, we have learned from our associations with you and appreciate your engagement with the Centre. We particularly wish to thank Health Canada for its financial support and BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre for hosting us. We have been fortunate to work with both of these organizations and our sister Centres of Excellence, the Canadian Women’s Health Network, Women and Health Care Reform, and Women and Health Protection in a program dedicated to understanding and improving women’s health in Canada. l
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Still Making Waves! A Message from the Executive Director...... 8
Changing the Landscape A Message from the President of BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre...... 10
Charting our Course Our Advisory Board...... 11
At a Glance...... 12
Generating Motion...... 13
Sources of Revenue...... 14
Generating Research Funds...... 15
The Alchemy of Research...... 16
Refining Practice...... 19
Moving Policy Mountains...... 22
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Appendix B: Selected Research Projects...... 32
Appendix C: Publication Highlights 2001-2006...... 35
Appendix D: Selected Presentations 2001-2006...... 38
Appendix E: BCCEWH Events 2001-2006...... 41 backdrop_left_page6.pdf 1/2/2007 12:42:22 PM 12:42:22 1/2/2007 backdrop_left_page6.pdf backdrop_right_page7.pdf 1/5/2007 6:19:43 PM STILL MAKING WAVES! A Message from the Executive Director
t is with immense pride that I mark the tenth anni- health. We are indeed, ‘still making waves’. scribed in these pages. Its support has allowed us to researchers and communications personnel is, well, Iversary of the British Columbia Centre of Excellence Our expertise in developing the conceptual bases for flourish. Most importantly, it has enabled us to provide simply excellent. Our numerous trainees and students for Women’s Health (BCCEWH). We have grown from gender based analysis (GBA) and for applying it in varied the dividends on this trust and investment by creating continue to inspire us and help to create a stronger fu- a small enterprise in 1996 to a key player in women’s ways is well established. We have embraced this aspect new questions and new knowledge in women’s health ture for women’s health. The recognition and testimony health research and policy development in British Co- of our mandate to take forward Health Canada’s com- and gendered policy. I am very grateful for the ongoing embedded in this report from partners far and wide tells lumbia, Canada and globally. mitment to requiring GBA in its policies, to extend that support from the Bureau of Women’s Health and Gender its own story of our influence and reach. Ten years on, This report, Still Making Waves, documents the ele- initiative to other countries, to craft key documents and Analysis at Health Canada, and our sister Centres across we continue to grow and learn together, to stake out new ments of our work and achievements. Building on our to provide training, insight and commentary on GBA to Canada. Our successes are funded by and shared by the ground for research and policy development in women’s first five years, described in Making Waves in 2001, we research, student, policy and provider audiences across people of Canada. health in Canada. have grown and changed to meet new demands for the globe. Doing gender-based analysis has often taken It remains a privilege for me to lead the British Co- I hope you enjoy Still Making Waves and incorporate women’s health research, gender-based analysis (GBA), us well past improving women’s health, generating in- lumbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. Ten women’s health into your business by joining with us in and knowledge exchange with multiple groups using a sights into issues of family, community and men’s health years of support from our advisory body, coordinating our next ten years. variety of media. We have extended our research pro- as well. council members, partners and volunteers has made — Lorraine Greaves, PhD, Executive Director l gram to include new themes and projects, while never Our thanks go to our host institution, BC Women’s my job easier. The incredible contribution of our staff, losing sight of our joint commitment to both collabora- Hospital & Health Centre for its exciting environment and tion and relevance in girls’ and women’s lives. We have in-kind support. Its leader, Elizabeth Whynot, has been introduced a range of technologies to our well-estab- a consistent advocate for improving women’s health re- lished involvement model, thereby engaging with wom- search and policy, the exact mandate of the BCCEWH. en and men from all over the province and country with The programs of BC Women’s, an agency of the Provin- You can be very proud of the Centre’s important much more ease. cial Health Services Authority of BC, have been a source C C We have extended our knowledge transfer and ex- of opportunity and inspiration. The province wide man- M M contributions to knowledge creation and
change, producing a wider range of products; policy date of BC Women’s has offered us a chance to lead in Y Y translation and to research training on women’s briefs, journal articles, books and reports. We have ap- providing information, evidence and strategic direction CM CM
plied our work to refine approaches to women’s health for women’s health across BC. In turn, we have assisted MY MY health. Best wishes for continued success over the by producing better practice manuals, guidelines, new BC Women’s in developing its own research strategy and CY CY next ten years!
interventions and protocols, journal supplements, strat- its new Women’s Health Research Institute to advance CMY CMY egies and gender based analyses of surveys, reports, the clinical care of women and girls in British Columbia. K K Miriam Stewart, Scientific Director, Canadian Institutes and health planning instruments. From a small point of This will be a key contribution and a permanent change of Health Research, Institute of Gender and Health. activity in 1996, our influence now reverberates across in the landscape of women’s health research. multiple issues, locations and organizations, in person Our funding from Health Canada has enabled us to and in cyberspace, all to the betterment of women’s grow and develop into the wonderful enterprise de-
Still Making Waves 10 Year Report backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM 2:29:50 12/18/2006 backdrop_right_plain.pdf backdrop_right_page9.pdf 1/2/2007 1:02:30 PM Changing the Landscape Charting our Course A Message from the President of BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre Our Advisory Board
Women’s Hospital & Health and produced new knowledge in con- strategic planning process that took he British Columbia Centre of Ex- Joan represented PacificDAWN, the • Rita Stern, Department of Health BC Centre has hosted the Brit- junction with practitioners in a range place between 2001 and 2006 paved Tcellence for Women’s Health was regional chapter of the DisAbled Care and Epidemiology, UBC and ish Columbia Centre of Excellence of our programs, such as the Aurora the way for our new Women’s Health established at BC Women’s as a result Women’s Network of Canada, and she former Regional Director, Health for Women’s Health for ten years, and Centre, a treatment centre for women Research Institute. of a broad based, collaborative pro- served the Centre with considerable Promotion Directorate, Health promoted its incredible contribution with addictions; the Fir Square Com- I am thrilled to be congratulating posal led by Penny Ballem, then Vice- commitment and great energy for Canada to the landscape of women’s health bined Care Unit, an in-patient unit for the British Columbia Centre of Excel- President of Specialized Women’s eight years, until her untimely death • Elizabeth Whynot, President, BC research in BC. The BCCEWH has pregnant women who use substanc- lence for Women’s Health on its ‘ten Health and Reproductive Health, in in January 2004. From 2004-2006, Women’s Hospital & Health Centre made our hospital and its programs es; the Eating Disorders program; years of excellence ’. This anniversary the mid-1990s. The proposal articu- John Gilbert of the College of Health We also thank our former advisory stronger, along with contributing to Osteofit and the Osteoporosis Pro- also marks ten years of a productive lated a model for an organization that Disciplines at the University of Brit- board members who served terms the province, nation and indeed, the gram; and the Breast Health Program, and exciting collaboration between would serve all of British Columbia by ish Columbia served as our Chair. In between 2001-2006: globe. among others. The Centre has offered BC Women’s and the Centre. creating a research and policy centre 2006, the BCCEWH became an inde- • Ardath Paxton Mann, Assistant The Centre has excelled at its man- the leadership and perspective re- — Elizabeth Whynot, MD devoted entirely to women’s health. pendent, incorporated Society in the Deputy Minister, Western Eco- date—growing its small beginning quired to influence health planning President, BC Women’s Hospital & Since its inception, the BCCEWH has Province of British Columbia. nomic Diversification Canada l into a thriving enterprise, accruing and women’s health strategies across Health Centre become just that. Our founding Society Directors are: • Tracee Schmidt, Manager, Orga- funding for many, many projects and British Columbia on issues ranging We have been sustained over the • Pat Armstrong, Professor, Depart- nizational Effectiveness, Business leading the way in social determi- from bone health to heart health to years by numerous volunteers. Our ment of Sociology, York University Transformation Division, BC Pub- nants and health systems research on tobacco control. Advisory Board has been a particu- • Patti Hunter, Benchmark Consul- lic Service Agency women’s health. In my view, its abil- Together, the BCCEWH and BC larly supportive group. When we were tants and Director, 2010 Legacies • Jeannie Wexler, Director, Western ity to create innovative partnerships Women’s have collaborated on a established in 1996, our Board mem- Now! BC Management Consultants with a range of communities and sec- range of important processes in bers were drawn from across the prov- • Joy Johnson, Professor, School of C C Over the past ten years, many oth- tors has been its key to success. As a British Columbia. For example, we ince, representing numerous institu- Nursing, University of British Co- The Centre is unique in British M M ers have supported the BCCEWH by result of its open collaborative model, worked together to craft a Provincial tions and constituencies interested lumbia the BCCEWH has not only produced Women’s Health Strategy, to coordi- Columbia and is widely Y Y in women’s health. Many represented serving on committees, review pan- CM CM Our Advisory Board members include: els, project teams, and strategic plan- research, policy advice, better prac- nate the Maternity Care Enhance- recognized for making major our founding partners in the consor- MY MY l tice guidelines, and information that ment Project, and to develop training tium that designed the proposal for • Joanne Douglas, Physician, BC ning groups. We thank them all. is appreciated worldwide, but has for health planners in the application strides in fostering research CY CY the Centre. That group launched the Women’s Hospital & Health Centre CMY CMY • Joanne Fiske, Interim Dean, School created receptivity for research and of Gender-Based Analysis. All of this to advance women’s health BCCEWH and established our trajec- new information on women’s health. benefits BC Women’s and the women K K tory in the context of the province, of Graduate Studies, University of initiatives and women-centred This has produced many concrete of BC. the region, and the country. Lethbridge improvements in the health of girls Since 2001, under the leadership programs and policy. Following the initial consortium, • Shari Graydon, Communications and women. of the Executive Director of the which was chaired by Dr. Ballem, consultant, President, Women’s For example, the BCCEWH has BCCEWH, BC Women’s has been Aubrey Tingle, President & CEO, Joan Meister was named Board Chair. Future Fund brought a research and evaluation inspired to develop our own research Michael Smith Foundation for lens to BC Women’s programs—in- strategy, focused on expanding its Health Research. patient, ambulatory, and provincial. clinical research capacity to directly It has assisted with data collection improve our patient care. The
10 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 11 backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM 2:29:50 12/18/2006 backdrop_right_plain.pdf backdrop_right_page11.pdf 1/8/2007 6:02:10 PM At a Glance Generating Motion
Funding (1996-2006) ur core activity at the British work of the BCCEWH since its incep- ing out multidisciplinary health re- OColumbia Centre of Excellence tion. Hence, we pay particular atten- search. $ 4,571,878 Health Canada Contribution is generating new knowledge about tion to women who are marginalized We have offered leadership in $ 1,488,197 In-Kind Support from BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre women’s health. Our findings drive due to socio-economic status, race, our region. In 2004, we developed $ 213,100 In-Kind Support from University of Northern British Columbia our efforts to change policies and culture, age, sexual orientation, geog- the Women’s Health Strategy for BC, $ 7,198,990 External Project Funding practices in women’s health to close raphy, disability, and/or addiction. and are now supporting the Provin- $ 20,011,980 Affiliated and Collaborative Research the loop between research and action. One priority audience for our re- cial Women’s Health Network. We are We began in 1996 by conducting re- search is policy makers—both elected co-leaders in the Women’s Health Re- $ 33,484,145 Total Investment in Women’s Health Research search on three broad themes: Health politicians and government staff—at search Network—supported by the Status and Health Determinants, all levels of government, from the lo- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Women-Centred Care, and Healthy cal to the global. But our work is aimed Research—linking and developing Women in Healthy Communities. at a range of audiences; service pro- over 450 researchers interested in Activities (1996 -2006)* Today, we do research on the en- viders, clinicians, other researchers, women’s health across BC. tire continuum of health—from what and women. We use multiple ways to We are a catalyst for action with a 250 Research Projects over 10 years it means to live with chronic disease communicate our findings to close reach growing steadily wider. Today, 34 Affiliations and Collaborations to how to optimize resilience in the the loop between posing questions, we have active partnerships in Aus- 65 Trainees and postdoctoral fellows face of trauma—and a broad array proposing solutions, and monitoring tralia, South America, and Europe. of health and social services—from interventions. We are sought after for research, health promotion through to rehabil- We have made an impact on wom- consulting, and advice from groups itation and palliative care to housing en’s health research in Canada. We such as the World Health Organiza- and food security. We address such participated in the original delibera- tion, the National Institute for Health Activities since 2001* C C issues within five major research ar- tions about the shape and mandate and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the M M eas—women and health services; ad- of the Canadian Institutes of Health UK, the TReND network in the USA, 100 Publications & Reports Y Y dictions and substance use; tobacco Research (CIHR). We were active on the Canadian Centre on Substance 110 Presentations CM CM use; physical activity; and mothering its Interim Governing Council, co- Abuse, and various departments of 45 Events Hosted MY MY and health—all pursued through ei- ordinated national workshops and Health Canada and the government CY CY ther a population health or a health meetings to design a proposal for a of BC. We are proud of our accom- CMY CMY services and systems framework. women’s health institute, developed plishments and of our path. l K K The impact of marginalization on a rationale for integrating sex and the health of girls and women has gender into all health research, and been an overarching concern in the developed Fusion, a model for carry-
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BCCEWH SOURCES OF SUPPORT 1996 - 2006 BCCEWH FINANCIAL GROWTH 1996 - 2006
External Project Funds Acquired Health Canada Contribution 53% Dollars External Project Funding 2,000,000 $7,198,990 The BCCEWH has been increasingly suc- 1,800,000 cessful in acquiring external funds for 34% 1,600,000
Health Canada Contribution 1,400,000 projects over the years. $4,571,878 1,200,000 13% In-Kind Support 1,000,000 $1,701,297 800,000
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Between 1996 – 2006 the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s 400,000 Health has had three primary sources of support. A third of our funding has 200,000
come from the Women’s Health Contribution Program of Health Canada. Both 96/97 97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/0 BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre and the University of Northern British Co- 6 lumbia have provided in-kind support in space and services. More than half of Fiscal Year our total revenue has come from externally-funded research projects. Sources for these funds include the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, the Social Science and Humanities Re- search Council, Status of Women Canada, National Institute for Health and Clini- cal Excellence, the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation, the Ameri- C C GENERATING WOMEN’S HEALTH RESEARCH 1996 - 2006 can Cancer Society, the Province of British Columbia, and various departments M M
of Health Canada, among others. Y Y In-Kind Support $1,701,297 CM CM 13% MY MY
Affiliated and Collaborative CY CY External Project External Project Funding 53% Funding Research Funding $20,011,980 Health Canada Contribution CMY CMY 34% $7,198,990 Health Canada In-Kind Support K K Contribution $4,571,878 Affiliated and Collaborative Research
The BCCEWH has garnered more than $7 million in project funds. Through its affiliations and collaborations on research projects with various partners, the BCCEWH has been involved in an additional $20 million of women’s health research activity in Canada and abroad.
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esearch embodies science, art methods and analysis. on lung health, across and between ing the Vancouver Area Network of may not be reaching some of today’s ment of women’s health research. For Rand philosophy, and seeks to re- These approaches are exempli- several disciplines. Drug Users (VANDU) Women’s Group smokers and may require tailoring. instance, we participated in the de- place ignorance with enlightenment. fied in FUSION, a model for women’s Who do we involve? The BC- study their experiences of accessing We strive to communicate such re- velopment of the Canadian Institutes While the basic elements of a project health research that we developed CEWH has always gone beyond the primary health care services in the search results to the right audienc- of Health Research, particularly the can usually be identified at the begin- in a national workshop held in 2000. ‘community-academy’ model and Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. es—policy makers, other researchers, Institute of Gender and Health. We ning, a magic takes place when part- FUSION supports a multi-disciplin- involves four groups: care providers, We are working with six Aboriginal the groups involved, and health and have advised on an emerging wom- ners join together to answer a ques- ary vision of women’s health research policy makers, women in comuni- communities across BC in assess- social service providers. en’s health institute process in On- tion of common interest or to solve and is a tool for developing research ties, and academics. Research ques- ing smoking among teen girls. We What matters? Research involves tario. We contributed to the develop- a problem. The process can unfold projects aimed at changing policy tions, timelines, accountabilities, re- are working with partners across the thinking about what counts as evi- ment of a Women’s Health Research along unforeseen paths and produce or programming. It helps research- sources, rewards, and outcomes are world, from South America to Europe dence and how questions can best Institute at BC Women’s Hospital & unanticipated results which fuel pro- ers clarify potential partners, locate often experienced differently across to India to bring gender into tobacco be answered. We often use multiple Health Centre. And we are one of the cesses of change—in what we ask, their research question within the these sectors. It has meant taking the control practices. methods to address complex re- five co-leaders of the Women’s Health what we know, how we think, what we four pillars of the Canadian Institutes time to listen, learn, and advocate for Why do we do what we do? We search questions, believing that no Research Network of British Colum- do, and with whom. of Health Research, and recognize changes in research practices to ac- always look for ways to make our re- one method can provide adequate bia, a research network funded by How we do research at the the potential contributions of other commodate these differences. search count. Sometimes, this means answers. We strive to ensure that BC’s Michael Smith Foundation for BCCEWH is part of what makes disciplines and sectors to answering We work closely with community tackling an unpopular topic, such as qualitative research methods are in- Health Research. All of this work is vi- our research different. We focus on questions. partners, near and far. Sometimes we reminding policy makers that breast corporated appropriately into health tal for identifying the need for wom- involving as many people as possible We ensure that the social sciences are asked to help a community group implants may not be healthy for research but also that a wide array en’s health research in Canada, for in policy-relevant research on girls’ and clinical and biomedical sciences to undertake research on a question women, or that some women are still of both quantitative and qualita- building capacity and shaping priori- and women’s health. We make an are equitably recognized contribu- of concern; other times we recog- smoking or taking drugs while preg- tive approaches are recognized for ties and opportunities. effort to erode disciplinary walls, tors to women’s health research. For nize that a particular partnership is nant. We are specific in asking for their contribution to understanding But alchemy is aimed at transfor- C C and bring many partners together example, we are involved in a team vital if a research project is going to women- or gender-specific policies women’s health. In addressing what mation. We continuously ask, what M M to create research that matters studying gender and chronic ob- have meaning and we look for ap- or programs, or better practices that evidence matters, we make women’s program changes need to be made as Y Y for girls and women. We explain structive pulmonary disease (COPD). propriate partners. We are working reflect commitment to women-cen- experiences count as data and help a result of this research? Who needs CM CM and encourage the integration of This group aims to understand both with the YWCA to assess the effects tred care. shape questions and priorities for our to do what differently, now that we MY MY sex and gender into research and social and biological factors that con- of their housing program on women For example, despite an overall re- research. know what we know? How should CY CY have contributed to manuals and tribute to the development of COPD, and children. We have worked closely duction in tobacco use, some groups, Context affects women’s health policy be different, based on the evi- CMY CMY guidelines for researchers, peer women’s and men’s experiences of with Sheway, a program of the Van- such as Aboriginal people, young and women’s health research. This dence? What information is missing? K K reviewers and policy makers. We the disease, and the health care sys- couver Native Health Society that pregnant women, gays and lesbians, means engaging with research fund- What does it all mean for the way that encourage reciprocal exchanges tem’s responses to them. We explic- provides supports for substance-us- and low income women and men ing organizations, research institu- we conduct further research? And fi- between different disciplines and itly consider what it means to include ing mothers and their children, par- smoke significantly more than the tions, universities, hospitals, health nally, with whom do we need to share sectors to improve investigation, sex, gender, and diversity in research ticularly prenatal care. We are help- average Canadian. This suggests authorities, and governments, along the findings of this research?l that current tobacco control efforts with communities, in the develop-
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Did You Know? recently published research Refining Practice
conducted through the BC Women are affected by sub- ive professionals who raise the issue esearch can reveal how to change program to communities beyond the implications for care; and assessing stance use differently than men of substance in a compassionate and Centre of Excellence for Rpractice. We use evidence from Lower Mainland of BC which involves the appropriateness of various mod- Women are affected more seri- non-judgmental way, and actively Women’s Health finding that our research and evaluation proj- working with staff to develop the log- els of care for BC. We have also been ously and more quickly than men help women make the needed con- ects to refine practice. We question ic model and protocols for program involved in research on patient-initi- women with (breast) implants when they use substances such as nections to services. current practices when the evidence evaluation, and help with the design ated caesarean sections, post-partum alcohol or other drugs. Hence early had much more interaction indicates that we should, in the in- of a program of research on the pro- depression, and maternity care in Ab- and straightforward access to addic- Women in Canada are not with health-care providers terests of women’s health. We help gram’s effectiveness. original communities. tions services is critically important physically active enough health care providers deliver the best We conduct research on women But we help refine practices far than women without, and were to women to reduce the level of com- Physical activity statistics collect- care possible and we train practitio- and substance use and take a lead- beyond the walls of BC Women’s. We plications that they experience from ed in 2000, 2001 and 2003 for Canada four times more likely to be ners to provide care in ways that work ership role in promoting improved are a long time partner in Women and substance use. Women experience and British Columbia, found that: for women. We pay attention to the addiction services to women in BC Health Care Reform, a national group admitted to hospital more stigma from substance use than men were more physically active than care that women receive, as well as and Canada. We work closely with the that has been examining issues per- women in all age groups; and women the care that women provide through Aurora Centre, a treatment centre for men and experience different social Shari Graydon, Breast Roulette, consequences—which in turn make were slightly more moderately ac- unpaid labour, including child care, women with substance use problems The Globe and Mail, February 5, The BCCEWH has provided it difficult for women to access treat- tive but more frequently inactive 2005, p. F7. providing for the elderly, and support- at BC Women’s. The Aurora Centre is ment. For example, women who are than men in all age groups. Among ing those with disabilities or chronic the largest women-only treatment fa- us with a place to debate mothers run the risk of losing custo- younger Canadians’, girls are less ac- illness, in addition to their paid work. cility in BC providing residential and policy, research, and clinical dy of their children when they enter tive than boys, and boys are twice as Our host, BC Women’s Hospital & day treatment services and has been applications. I trust that just addictions treatment whereas this is likely as girls to engage in enough Health Centre, and our strong links to providing addiction treatment ser- not the case for men who are fathers. physical activity for optimal growth communities have been important in vices to women for over thirty years. as the BCCEWH has informed Creating conditions and facilities for and development (27% compared to their situation upon themselves. For these processes. We have evaluated We have helped them to assess their C C our clinical work, we too have 14%) . While Canadians participation mothers experiencing mental illness, several programs at BC Women’s to programs, raise research questions, women with substance use issues M M in physical activity has increased by the system was said to be failing to help them assess effect. We have de- and develop their resource materials. informed the Centre’s quest to thus entails addressing not only is- Y Y sues of substance use, but also child 5% since 2000/01, older populations, provide for the women adequately veloped logic models, designed data As BC Women’s is Canada’s busi- CM CM identify the questions central to particularly women, have reported when things went tragically wrong, collection tools, participated in pro- est maternity care hospital, we have custody, mothering, stigma, and shelter. MY MY the least significant increase in physi- such as when a woman’s unrecog- gram advisory committees, and con- many opportunities to be involved improved health for all women. CY CY cal activity levels. nized or untreated mental illness was tributed to care guidelines. in work related to maternity care. In Pregnant women and mothers CMY CMY Gail Malmo, Program Director, associated with her harming her chil- For example, we are supporting 2004, we coordinated an extensive experience unique barriers to K K Aurora Centre, Residential accessing treatment and sup- The media present different dren. The system was less likely to be the expansion of Osteofit, a commu- consultation process to enhance and Day Treatment centre for portraits of mothers under du- blamed in instances of either woman nity-based physical activity falls pre- maternity care in BC through an ex- port for substance use prob- substance Usa at BC Women’s abuse or substance use. l vention program developed by the amination of human resource issues lems ress Hospital & Health Centre. At the point of accessing preg- In a study of Canadian newspa- Osteoporosis Program at BC Wom- such as the supply of nurses, physi- nancy outreach, detoxification and pers, mothers who use alcohol, to- en’s. We have been part of the pro- cians, midwives; remuneration of treatment services, mothers most bacco and other drugs were portrayed cess of renewing and expanding this various health care providers and the commonly cite the following barri- as willful and abusive to their fetuses ers to accessing help: shame (66%), or children. In contrast, mothers fear of losing children (62%), fear of with mental illness were regarded as prejudicial treatment on the basis of not being in control and mothers in their motherhood status (60%). The abusive relationships were deemed top support cited has been support- to have done things to have brought
18 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 19 backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM 12:35:07 1/2/2007 backdrop_left_plain.pdf backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM taining to women and the health care Ministry of Health to contribute to a Fir Square Combined Care Unit Researchers are increasingly system, paid and unpaid health care component of ActNow BC by devel- Did You do? is a dedicated unit for pregnant documenting that older providers, and/or decision makers oping a province-wide training pro- within health care. Women and Health gram aimed at reducing women’s use women with substance use Better practices in smoking thinking about FASD as a prevention Aboriginal women are being Care Reform has examined privatiza- of alcohol and tobacco use during issues. One of our goals is to cessation for pregnant women issue in women’s health rather than over-prescribed benzo- tion of health services and the impli- pregnancy. This large initiative has The BCCEWH produced a meta- solely an intervention issue for those change practice in how we diazepines, which is putting cations for women; home care and generated up-to-date evidence pa- review of international practices for affected. women’s disproportionate role in pers that support multi-media train- care for pregnant substance tobacco reduction and cessation dur- them at significant risk, reports unpaid care giving; changing models ing materials for health care provid- using women. The BCCEWH is ing pregnancy and the postpartum Building virtual communities the British Columbia Centre of of primary care and what they might ers and social services personnel, and period. This evidence led to identi- for assisting women who have always available to give advice, Excellence for Women’s Health mean for women and their families; training sessions across BC in moti- fying 11 components and 7 new ap- both substance use and vio- what quality health care means for vational interviewing, harm reduc- help draft policy and guidelines, proaches for tobacco reduction dur- lence issues Raven’s Eye, The Aboriginal women; and the roles of ancillary tion, and women-centred care. ing pregnancy that are being used BCCEWH researchers facilitate a and provide the most up to date Newspaper of British Columbia workers such as the cleaners, secre- In 2006, we were contracted by widely across the US and Canada for group of Canadian researchers, pol- & Yukon, May 2006 taries, dishwashers, managers, and the National Institute for Health and research or literature searches. training front-line health care pro- icy advocates and service providers file clerks that work throughout the Clinical Excellence (NICE) of the UK The focus on women and gender viders. It has served as the basis for a from the anti-violence and substance health care system. Much of this to prepare a series of rapid reviews on protocol for quitline counsellors, and use fields to “meet” in an innovative is vital to my work and to the work is directly about “care”—who several tobacco programs. These in- training and guidelines for perinatal virtual community. In our virtual cares, where, and for whom, and who cluded a review of a National Health women of BC and Canada. nurses and addiction counsellors. community we have reflected on the pays for that care, financially, practi- Service (NHS) smoking cessation response to women who use alcohol, cally, emotionally and physically. program and a review of workplace Sarah Payne, Senior Practice A new framework for consid- tobacco, prescription drugs and illicit In 2003, we did a meta-review and bans and workplace policies. These Leader, Socially Complex ering fetal alcohol spectrum drugs, and who are accessing anti- analysis of best practices in respond- reviews fed into a process of develop- Admissions, BC Women’s Hospital. disorder (FASD) as a women’s violence services such as transition ing to pregnant and post partum ing evidence statements, building the houses and sexual assault services. In C C health issue women who smoke. We not only as- foundation for clinical guidance de- a virtual workspace, we reviewed and M M The BCCEWH has led the develop- sessed the quality of the literature and ployed throughout the health system synthesized better practices for anti- Y Y ment of a national research agenda identified best practices, but also ad- of the UK. violence services in integrating the CM CM on FASD as a women’s health issue dressed the feasibility of putting pro- Refining practice is always a work response to women facing both vio- MY MY through a national workshop process grams into practice. This work led to a in progress, continuously improving lence and substance use issues, and CY CY engaging researchers and practitio- widely-used report and compact disc the quality, delivery and understand- prepared fact sheets for both women CMY CMY ners. The BCCEWH has presented this that has traveled across the world. ing of care. It requires constant train- and service providers to assist them K K agenda and approach to policy mak- In 2005, the elements of the report, ing to support workers’ understanding ers, researchers, practitioners and in making, and acting on, the strong Expecting to Quit, were transformed of the importance of women’s health. politicians at conferences, roundta- connections between these two into a specific protocol for pregnant The BCCEWH has taken a lead role bles, workshops and meetings there- issues. l women who call Quitlines, telephone- in this work in Canada and beyond, by facilitating the re-orientation of based services that counsel smokers. and will continue to actively link evi- This tree of questions and prompts dence, training, and practice. l is being studied for adoption in both Canada and the United States. In 2005, we were asked by the BC
20 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 21 backdrop_left_blue_page20.pdf 1/2/2007 1:22:30 PM 1:22:30 1/2/2007 backdrop_left_blue_page20.pdf backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM Moving Policy Mountains Congratulations to Dr. Greaves and the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health on 10 aking change—communicat- We have fruitfully collaborated with We also try to change policy. We wifery availability across Canada are Network, we are continuing to raise years of outstanding contributions to Ming research results to deci- the BCCEWH on numerous projects, have given policy briefings, appeared slowly paying off with increased and the profile of women’s health issues sion makers and convincing them before government inquiries or Com- wider access for women. with policy makers across the prov- articulating the critical public policy such as the development of regulated to act—is another core function of missions, met with officials and Par- At other times, we contribute ince of BC. We are pursuing spe- and personal issues faced by women the BCCEWH. Sometimes this is an midwifery in Canada, services for liamentarians, and disseminated the knowingly to long term change pro- cific objectives consistent with the in all societies, and for serving as our easy task when our findings line up pregnant women with addictions, results of our research in various re- cesses. We are a partner in the Cana- Strategy: improving monitoring and with the priorities of governments or and health issues for women in rural, ports and policy briefs. We have un- da Northwest FASD research network surveillance of women’s health; im- collective conscience in advocating other large institutions. Other times, remote and northern Canada. We are dertaken meta-analyses and rapid re- where we argue that fetal alcohol proving access to addictions and for women. it can mean ‘moving mountains’ to views to consolidate policy-relevant spectrum disorder needs to be seen mental health services; and improv- particularly grateful for the editorial convince policy makers of a different knowledge on a topic. For example, as a women’s health issue inextrica- ing maternity care in BC. In the past Richard Clayton, Associate Dean for leadership BCCEWH has taken way of seeing things, the value of a we conducted a review of how to- bly linked to child health, and ap- 10 years, we have worked with many Research, University of Kentucky, College different program option, or even the for the WHCP Research Bulletin. bacco policies differentially affect proached from the perspective of women’s health community projects of Public Health. danger of proceeding with the status Congratulations BCCEWH, and best women and men who are vulnerable prevention with research funds de- supported by the Ministry of Health quo. or poor, and edited a journal supple- ployed accordingly. We have used our and continue to link researchers with makers, and researchers about wom- wishes for your next 10 years. We have contributed to policy ment on how girls and women of low research on discourses on substance- policy makers across the province. en’s health and gender and health in making at all levels. In the course of socioeconomic status are affected by using mothers to suggest a new policy Our national mandate, however, Kuwait, Costa Rica, Finland, Australia, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, the UK, the US, and Spain. We have moving mountains, there is seldom Executive Director, Prairie Women’s tobacco control policies. paradigm for child welfare, one that directs most of our attention to fed- a direct route between research and Health Centre of Excellence. Sometimes our efforts are unseen. places mother and child together, as eral policy makers. We work closely provided training on women’s health policy. Policy can be both what is done Starting with research on the health a unit, for policy purposes. with the Bureau of Women’s Health research and gender-based analysis and what is not done, or a commit- care utilization patterns of women We also contribute to policy frame- and Gender Analysis, as well as many in Costa Rica, Kuwait, and England. people, and pregnant women. We ment to maintaining the status quo. who had undergone breast implant works in women’s health. We wrote other departments in Health Canada. We work virtually with partners across have examined how the processes C C Either way, it is a powerful instru- surgery in BC, we contributed to na- Advancing the Health of Women and We prepared a guide to gender-based the world—on research projects in Sri of redress for victims of institutional M M ment for shaping the determinants of tional efforts to maintain federal pol- Girls, the women’s health strategy for analysis, Exploring Concepts of Gen- Lanka, Argentina, and Australia. We sexual abuse affect the complainants. Y Y health and creating the frameworks icy regarding the control of silicone BC released in 2004, in partnership der and Health, for people working recently published an international We have examined how child welfare CM CM which influence women’s health. gel-filled breast implants in Canada. with BC Women’s and the Ministry as policy makers in the health field, portrait of the effects of tobacco use policies affect mothers who use MY MY Some of the policy work at the While our recommendation for es- of Health. This strategy provides an designing programs and services, or and tobacco production on women substances. We have studied the CY CY BCCEWH has been to examine tablishing a breast implant registry to overview of health issues facing wom- conducting research in Health Can- globally, with contributors from Ja- introduction of registered midwives CMY CMY the effects—both intended and monitor the use and effects of breast en and girls in BC and offers a 10 year ada. We have also assisted analysts pan, South Africa, England, Sweden, in the health care system in BC. And K K unintended—of existing policy. For implants was supported by an expert vision for women’s health aimed at preparing reports on mental illness in Ghana, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Uru- we have closely examined the ways example, we have explored tobacco review panel, we were not ultimately improving women’s health services, Canada, the national addictions sur- guay, India, and Brazil. Finally, we in- that the media and policy makers control policy with respect to its successful in preventing the rescind- promoting women-centred care and vey, home care, palliative care, tobac- fluence policy at the global level. We talk and write about mothers who explicit effects on women and girls, ing of a moratorium on the use of sili- enhancing women’s health monitor- co control, rural health, and Aborigi- are creating policy backgrounders for use substances, or who have mental low income people, Aboriginal cone gel-filled implants. In contrast, ing and surveillance in the province. nal seniors’ health, among a range of the World Health Organization and illnesses, experience from abuse from our efforts in supporting issues such Together with the new Provincial other topics. work with the International Network their intimate partners. as making emergency contraception Women’s Health Team of BC Women’s In advancing Canada’s leadership of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) (ECP) for women, or improving mid- and the Provincial Women’s Health in women’s health, we also extend and the Framework Convention Alli- our policy changing efforts outside of ance to develop gender-sensitive to- Canada. Through international con- bacco control, helping to reduce the ferences and workshops, we have spo- size of the women’s tobacco epidemic ken to health care providers, policy in the 21st Century. l
22 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 23 backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM 2:29:50 12/18/2006 backdrop_right_plain.pdf backdrop_right_page23.pdf 1/8/2007 5:42:42 PM Researchers are finally tuning Did you Change? Making Gender Matter More in to the fact that there’s many more differences in The BCCEWH provided evi- first and only international public bia. By improving access to data and ender is a key determinant of a one-of-a-kind CIHR program train- men’s and women’s health. dence of breast implant com- health treaty in the world, to incor- communication between researchers Gwomen’s health, and yet is often ing researchers in gender, women, and In fact, many illnesses affect plications and successfully porate gender considerations into through the linkage provided by the not considered in planning and policy addictions. In both of these programs, the sexes in distinct ways. argued for a breast implant their work. The BCCEWH is building directory, we will be able to better in- making. However, many governments biological and genetic processes inter- Only recently have scientists registry in Canada upon Health Canada’s Gender-Based form women’s health policy develop- in Canada have made commitments act with social and cultural practices in determined that heart attacks Research on breast implant sur- Analysis framework to advise on how ment, compare health status among to GBA and have been working to de- gendered ways which affect the diagno- in women, for instance, are gery and health care utilization rates to successfully integrate gender into sub-populations of diverse women, velop tools and processes to facilitate sis, treatment, rehabilitation and recov- rarely characterized by chest in a BC sample suggests that women tobacco policies across Canada and and identify gaps in and priorities for its introduction into policy making, ery of people with these conditions. pain, as they are in men. The with breast implants obtain more internationally. women’s health research. l program development, and research. Getting people to use SGBA and ap- need for better monitoring and medical services than women who The BCCEWH has directly contrib- preciate its contribution is an ongoing surveillance of women’s health have not undergone the surgery. This Women’s health surveillance: The BCCEWH was launched 10 uted to the growth of GBA in Canada. process of capacity building. We have issues in this province is just study, and challenges accessing data improving access to the evi- We have introduced more specificity to developed capacity for gender-based one area that has been deemed years ago with a big idea and a in Canada about rates of breast im- dence base GBA, by stipulating that the impact of analysis with health planners, program a priority by two local health plant surgery led to the creation of a The BCCEWH and BC Women’s are small team. It was born of wide sex, gender and diversity be explicitly developers, and policy makers. We organizations. developing an online women’s health addressed for their impact on women’s wrote a guide to gender-inclusive health BC Women’s Hospital and background paper on breast implant community support among those registry initiatives worldwide. These data directory for British Columbia health (SGBA). This means that both bi- planning for the Ministry of Health in Health Centre and the British materials were presented at the pub- sponsored by the Women’s Health Re- interested in women’s health in ological and sociological impacts need British Columbia. We prepared Explor- Columbia Centre of Excellence lic hearings of Health Canada’s Expert search Network, a population health BC. Now, it has grown to bring to be addressed when using a gender ing Concepts of Gender and Health for for Women’s Health recently Advisory Panel and contributed to a research network funded by the Mi- lens, as well as specific ethnocultural Health Canada, outlining federal gov- launched a 10-year plan to national and international recommendation that Health Canada chael Smith Foundation for Health knowledge that may have an effect on ernment commitments to GBA, trends address female-specific care. Research. This directory will assist recognition to women’s health and women’s health. Further, it lets us raise that are shaping the context of women’s Titled Advancing the Health of establish a breast implant registry. C C researchers, students, policy mak- the questions about how sex and gen- (and men’s) health, a framework for Girls and Women: A Women’s British Columbia. We should all M M ers, health planners, and commu- der might interact to influence women’s understanding policy, and questions to Health Strategy for British Introducing gender and diver- Y Y nity members to identify sources of be very proud. health. We have encouraged the inte- guide researchers, program developers, Columbia, the paper also sity concepts into tobacco con- CM CM women’s health information from lo- gration of this more complex lens into and policy makers as they work. We ap- singled out improved access trol policy and programming MY MY cal, provincial, national and interna- Penny Ballem, Former Deputy all programming, policy, and research. plied such a lens in a 1999 background to maternity care and help for nationally and internationally CY Minister of Health, British Columbia CY tional sources. The Women’s Health For example, we are key partners in paper on how the emerging Canadian mental illness and addiction as The BCCEWH has developed the CMY CMY Data Directory will be a searchable bringing both sex and gender issues to Institutes of Health Research should urgent issues. only research and policy program on K K women, gender and tobacco in Can- database, and include links to rel- respiratory health through our activities consider questions of sex and gender in ada and is a leader internationally. evant sources of external data. It will with our co-investigators in ICEBERGS, its work. Gail Johnson, The Georgia Straight, December 2-9, 2004, p. 41. We are providing background policy act as a portal for locating and access- a CIHR-funded team exploring gender The BCCEWH also provides training direction to the World Health Orga- ing various sources of women’s health and lung health. We are leading the in GBA. We have trained staff in health nization (WHO) and working closely data, or for identifying gaps where processes of introducing both sex and authorities, within the provincial and with the International Network of they exist. The choice of data sources gender considerations into IMPART, federal departments of health, and in- Women Against Tobacco (INWAT). will be based on a range of indicators The WHO has urged the ratifying of women’s health, that reflect the States of the Framework Conven- unique experiences of women and tion for Tobacco Control (FCTC), the girls in the province of British Colum-
24 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 25 backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM 12:35:07 1/2/2007 backdrop_left_plain.pdf backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM ternationally. The BCCEWH has con- answers. In working with the Women BCCEWH is widely acclaimed Inspirational women in sport tributed to the writing of manuals to and Health Care Reform group to pre- Can You See? will now have a place of their as a leader in national and support capacity building in GBA, on pare a gender-based analysis of wait- own at the B.C. Sports Hall how to integrate sex and gender into ing times for total joint arthroplasty international efforts to prevent Providing education and train- gender into national research agen- of Fame and Museum….In Her Footsteps…Celebrating health research, and how to inform peer (TJA), an initial review showed that and reduce the harm caused ing on gender-based analysis das in tobacco and addictions over review committees on assessing sex and women are more likely to have osteo- (GBA) and health at the local, the next decade. This text appears in B.C. Women in Sport, will gender issues in research proposals. We arthritis and therefore are more likely to young girls and women by provincial and federal levels the Canadian Tobacco Control Re- document and commemorate have done GBA training on diverse top- to need TJA than men. But larger gen- tobacco. The BCCEWH was a partner in search Initiative and the CIHR mate- the stories and achievements ics, such as mental health, diagnosing dered questions emerged regarding the the development of a women’s health rials asking for requests for proposals. of up to three women each year heart disease or access to health servic- “patient journey,” suggesting that the Dawn Hachey, Director, Tobacco plan for the Vancouver/Richmond In addition, BCCEWH researchers who have made a significant es, as well as week-long training session path for women and men into and out Control Programme, Health Canada Health Board, now part of Vancouver garnered support and achieved a contribution to sport. The on gender-sensitive research and policy of the health care system differs mark- Coastal Health, and contributed to separate priority area in each of these project is a joint initiative of making in Costa Rica. edly. Caregiving responsibilities, the the development of a widely-adopted national research agenda documents the Hall of Fame, ProMOTION While we provide useful guidelines ability to pay for formal home support framework on women-centred care. on girls, women and gender. Plus (the B.C. association for for enhancing the gender-sensitiv- services, access to informal care, and The BCCEWH conducted research on girls and women in sport and ity of research, program development overall economic resources may affect women’s health planning activities Addressing Gender and the physical activity), 2010 Legacies and policy making, we also encourage women’s and men’s uptake of TJA—dif- in BC’s health regions and developed Olympics Now and the B.C. Centre of a permanent change in a way of think- ferences reflecting not simply women’s a guide for gender-inclusive health Vancouver is going to host the Excellence for Women’s Health. ing about health, health research and need for surgery but the context in planning, and is currently preparing 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralym- Spirit of Vancouver, December policy. This assists in “making gender which such surgery happens. It was a privilege for me from materials on leadership in women’s pic Games. BCCEWH is monitoring 2005, Vol. V, No. VII, p.7 matter more”, by developing critical We continue to contribute to the health for the regional health author- the impact of these events from the the International Network (Vancouver Board of Trade questioning throughout one’s work, analysis of complex measurement is- ities. The BCCEWH worked closely perspective of gender equity. How are magazine) whatever sector one is working in. As sues and contribute to the availability of Women Against Tobacco with the federal Bureau of Women’s women and men integrated into the trainers in GBA, we encourage others in of high quality data on women’s health opportunities that the Games pro- (INWAT) to partner to produce C C Health and Gender Analysis to write asking questions about their work, their by exploring gender-sensitive indica- its GBA guide, has provided training vide? How are women’s and men’s Turning a New Leaf: Women, M M data, or the policy under consideration: tors for women’s health and new meth- events portrayed in media coverage? Y Y materials on gender-based analysis What is known about the potential dif- ods of addressing gender. The BCCEWH The hosting of the Olympics also Tobacco, and the Future. The CM CM in tobacco policy and research, and ferent effects of a phenomenon on is committed to introducing sex- and conducted training with Health Can- raises many issues for the host city, Centre is clearly at the global MY MY women and men, girls and boys, or dif- gender-based analysis to more and including issues from the displace- CY CY ada regional policy staff on GBA. ferent groups of women and men? In more health researchers, programmers, forefront of the women and ment of marginalized residents, land CMY CMY what ways are men and women likely and policy developers, as well as con- usage, and the effects of an increased tobacco issue. K K Requiring recognition of sex to experience the impact of a policy tinuously improving our own research and gender in all research sex trade that is associated with the differently? What aspect of women’s in assessing a wide range of health is- Sara Sanchez-del-mazo, INWAT proposals regarding alcohol, Games. These, and other develop- and men’s different social or economic sues and questions for their gendered coordinator, Sweden. drugs, tobacco and addiction ments, are among the facets of the situations would mean that a program implications. l BCCEWH researchers led the ini- event that are being studied by the could have different effects on them? tiative and wrote the text to insert the BCCEWH. l GBA is a process, going well beyond requirement to incorporate sex and counting male and female rates or sex- disaggregating research results. Apply- ing GBA can elicit more questions than
26 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 27 backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM 2:29:50 12/18/2006 backdrop_right_plain.pdf backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM A Crucible for Training Over the past decade the Research Without Borders BCCEWH has played a leading
he British Columbia Centre of been integrally involved in commu- role in women’s health research ur reach is no longer confined sionate, evidence-based interviewing we can make a difference to practice, T Excellence for Women’s Health nity research, or we have assisted by fostering interdisciplinary Oby geography. We are advanc- techniques to health care practitio- and to the real lives of women. We will is a crucible for training and capacity community organizations to access ing Canada’s leadership in women’s ners working with pregnant women continue to stress collaboration as a collaboration with researchers development in women’s health and research funding to engage in re- health by extending ourselves in new with substance use problems. This means to improving women’s health a national and international resource search important to their goals. from all regions of Canada. As a spaces in new ways. Our use of tech- will ensure that women in remote ar- research and policy. We will depend for students, scholars, researchers The BCCEWH has contributed to junior researcher the BCCEWH nology has grown over the years, from eas receive up to date care. Ultimately more and more on technology to in- and policy makers. We provide op- creating a cadre of new and emerging early projects that examined women’s this will be available from our website crease our involvement and make portunities to learn about women’s researchers in women’s health and provided several opportunities use of the internet, and making our so that all women in Canada and in our information and opportunities health issues, debate improvements gender and health in a wide variety for me to share my research and research available for downloading, the international community will be accessible for more and more women in women’s health care, learn gen- of disciplines from women’s studies to where we now have an explicit able to use the techniques we have and men. Our interests in improving ideas with different audiences. der-based analysis and connect with to medicine. They have built upon commitment to creating a collabo- developed in British Columbia to help the lives of marginalized women will others. We hold speakers events and opportunities with the BCCEWH to The feedback and input and the ratory1 for women’s health. We have pregnant women with substance use not fade. We will undoubtedly remain workshops both in person and vir- establish themselves as scholars. Sev- types of opportunities offered built a functional web-based environ- issues improve their health. a crucible for change, investing in the tually, and host students from many eral have gone on to become leaders ment to co-construct knowledge with We continue to maintain our next generation of women’s health disciplines. within the national research commu- to me contributed significantly a range of partners across Canada. women-health listserv, the first of its researchers, practitioners and policy We have worked with over 65 stu- nity in women’s health, and are key to my academic career and Ten years ago, we engaged pri- kind in Canada. We are making use of makers. We will continue to make dents in both short- and long-term members of the next generation of marily in focus groups, face-to-face emerging spaces in the cyber world waves! l the research path that I have projects and hosted students from women’s health scholars in Canada discussion groups, and paper sur- to advance our reach by continuously 1 - Defined as a “center without walls, in which Canada and abroad. The BCCEWH We have also contributed to ca- embarked upon. veys as ways of creating community building virtual communities. We are the nation’s researchers can perform their re- is also the home of the CIHR funded pacity building in advocacy, policy and gathering data. Technology has building a presence in new commu- search without regard to physical location, Integrated Mentor Program in Addic- making and care provision. Former Caroline Tait, Faculty Researcher, improved access for many women, nities such as the virtual world Sec- interacting with colleagues, accessing instru- C C tions Research Training (IMPART), a students and staff work in federal Indigenous Peoples’ Health especially those in rural areas or who ond Life. These communities are sites mentation, sharing data and computational M M resources, [and] accessing information in digi- unique, innovative, multidisciplinary and provincial governments, doing Research Centre, University of are physically challenged. Now the of growth and offer opportunities to Saskatchewan. Y Y tal libraries” (Wulf, 1989). research training program designed evaluation and policy development BCCEWH engages using technology advance women’s health. Our origi- CM CM to equip health researchers from in women’s health. Former staff and through virtual learning communi- nal involvement model continues to MY MY across settings to conduct gender trainees are working in international ties, telehealth, videoconferencing, guide us, but the methods we use are CY CY and sex-based analyses in addictions tobacco control, bringing women’s webcasting and communities of prac- rapidly changing with the times. A I was welcomed to Canada and CMY CMY research. It has trained over 25 gradu- health messages to women via radio, tice. We are as likely to meet electroni- global audience of women awaits our K K provided with excellent training ate students, post-doctoral fellows providing social services to abused cally to discuss our research in virtual work, and new questions for future and mentorship, thanks to the and clinicians. women who use substances, and pro- community, evaluate our impact with research and knowledge exchange The BCCEWH has contributed viding nursing care. electronic surveys, or exchange data abound. connections, support and open to capacity in community-based re- We are proud of their contribu- and build documents. What will the next 10 years bring atmosphere at the Centre. search. We have run a successful 52- tions to the future of women’s health We are creating products to go for the British Columbia Centre of Ex-
project seed grant program. We have care, policy and research. l along with new technology. In our cellence for Women’s Health? We will Emily Falk, 2005 Canada - US work on ActNow, we are creating a continue to ask questions about what Fulbright Scholar at the BCCEWH. DVD to assist in teaching compas- matters in women’s health, and how
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e produce a wide range of print and electronic materials at the BCCEWH The Centre for Addiction and he BCCEWH was founded with several university and community partners. Our interactions with the Wfor a variety of audiences. We are particularly proud to announce the re- Mental Health (CAMH) is TMany of these partners have worked with us on research or knowledge trans- BCCEWH have challenged lease of new books prepared by staff and associates of the Centre. very proud of our partnership lation projects over the past ten years. In addition, new partnerships have formed. us to critically evaluate our with BCCEWH, Canada’s We have Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with the Canadian Centre on Sub- approaches to research, pursue Research, Experience, Social Change: The Wounds of Exclusion: Pov- stance Abuse (CCSA) and the Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society at the Uni- leader in the field of women new lines of inquiry, and Methods Beyond the Mainstream erty, Women’s Health and Social versity of Melbourne in Australia; these memoranda indicate our mutual commit- consider the implications of our Sandra L. Kirby, Lorraine Greaves Justice. Colleen Reid Edmonton: and substance use, to develop ment to a long-term partnership to improve women’s health. and Colleen Reid Toronto: Broadview Qualitative Institute Press, 2004 and publish a book on topics BCCEWH is also involved in several important research collaborations. Among findings for improving women’s Press, 2006 of concern to women with our partners are groups such as NEXUS, a research unit at the University of British health. substance use problems -- an Columbia studying the social context of health behaviour; ICEBERGS, an interdis- ciplinary team researching gender and lung health; FACET, studying family behav- Joan Bottorff, Dean, Faculty of underserved, highly stigmatized iours linked to tobacco reduction; and the Farm Family Health project of PrioNet Health and Social Development, and often marginalized Canada, studying the social effects of prion disease in rural Canada. We partici- UBC Okanagan and Co-Director, population. pate in, or lead, several networks, such as the Women’s Health Research Network NEXUS. of BC, the Provincial Women’s Health Network of BC and the Canada North West Julia Greenbaum, Publishing FASD research network, involving 7 western Canadian Provinces and Territories Developer, Policy, Education and in addressing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. We also are engaged in numerous Health Promotion, Centre for projects led by investigators external to the BCCEWH, some of which are listed Addiction and Mental Health. below.
• ICEBERGS: Interdisciplinary Capac- Community Capacity the Conceptual and Empirical Foun-
C C ity Enhancement: Bridging Excellence • Towards a Research Agenda on Gender dation for a Theoretical Tool-Kit in in Respiratory Disease and Gender and Lung Health Workshop Tobacco Research M M Studies • Support Interventions for Low Income • Enhancing Competency Based Perfor- Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspec- Promotion de la santé au Canada Health Promotion in Canada: Y Y • NEXUS: Researching the Social Con- Women Smokers mance: A Gender Model for Assessing
tives on Women and Substance Use et au Québec, perspectives cri- Critical Perspectives CM CM texts of Health Behaviour • Understanding Community Capacity & Strengthening Health Care Workers’ • FACET: Families Controlling and Elimi- in Mental Health Reform Through an Knowledge, Skills, and Resiliency Nancy Poole & Lorraine Greaves tiques, Michel O’Neill, Sophie Michel O’Neill, Ann Pederson, MY MY nating Tobacco Examination of the Gendered Dimen- • National Women’s Health Indicators (Eds.) Toronto: Centre for Addiction Dupéré, Ann Pederson, Irving Sophie Dupéré, Irving Root- CY CY • Centre for Hip Health: A Lifespan Ap- sions of the Riverview Redevelopment Workshop and Mental Health, 2007 Rootman, (Eds.) Québec, Presse man Toronto: Canadian Schol- CMY CMY proach Process • National Think Tank on Gender & Un-
université Laval, 2006 ars’ Press K K • Canada North West Fetal Alcohol Syn- • Developing an effective health care re- paid Caregiving drome Research Network sponse to benzodiazepine dependence • Youth Risk Behaviours: A Gendered • A Healthy Balance: A Community Alli- in Canadian men and women Analysis of the Determinants of Health ance for Health Research on Women’s • A Cohort Study Of The Impact Of Prion and Well-Being of Young Women and Unpaid Caregiving Disease On Farm Community Health Men in Post-Conflict Sri-Lanka • Patterns of Family Interaction Influ- • Sex, Gender and Place: An Analysis of • Enhancing Competency Based Perfor- encing Tobacco Reduction During Youth’s Experiences with STI Testing mance: A Gendered Model for Assess- Pregnancy and Postpartum • Expanded Access to Emergency Con- ing & Strengthening Health Care Work- • Gender Analysis of Tobacco Use dur- traception in British Columbia: Impact ers’ Knowledge, Skills, and Resiliency ing Pregnancy, Postpartum and Early on Prevalence and Patterns of Usage. • Responding to Rural Communities: Childhood • Smoking as a Coping Mechanism for Building a Program of Research on • What Does Quality Health Care Mean Racialized Discrimination? Laying the Maternity Care to Women? A National Study Ground Work • Rural and Remote Women’s Health in • Mental Health Reform – Building Rural • Gender and Health in the Canadian Canada Community Capacity Institutes of Health Research • Evaluation of the Pacific Native • Youth Sexual Health Information Seeking • How Women Maintain Their Health Women’s Assoc. Community Support • Developing New Approaches to Smok- in Northern Geographically Isolated Training Program ing in Pregnancy Settings • Mothers and Daughters Talking Circles • Mental Health Reform - Building Rural • The Social Context Of Smoking: Laying • Action on Food Security
30 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 31 backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM 2:29:50 12/18/2006 backdrop_right_plain.pdf backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM Primary Healthcare for Women with Statistical Baseline Profile of Gender and Women in Rural Health APPENDIX B: Selected Research Projects Serious Mental Illness. BC Mental Health Substance Use Among Women in Their Research. CIHR & Addictions Services Childbearing Years in Alberta AADAC Tracking Alcohol Use in Women Who he BCCEWH has carried out a wide variety of projects with the support of a range of external funding agencies. Some Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Action Schools! BC Ministry of Health Move Through Domestic Violence Texamples of projects undertaken over the past 10 years are listed below. Expert Review Panel. Canadian Centre Midwifery in Canada: An Environmental Shelters. Alcoholic Beverage Medical on Substance Abuse (CCSA) Scan of Professional Data. Canadian Research Foundation (ABMRF) Exploring Concepts of Gender and Workshop - Towards a Research Agenda We Don’t Smoke Here Anymore. Health Telephone Counselling Protocols for Health. Health Canada on Gender & COPD. Canadian Tobacco Canada Pregnant and Postpartum Women. Better Practices: Tobacco Prevention & Association of Midwives Control Research Initiative (CTCRI) Health Canada Cessation Among Ethnocultural Groups Rural Women’s Experience with Teenaged Girls and Smoking Workshop. Osteofit Evaluation. BC Women’s in Canada. CTCRI, National Cancer Maternity Care. CIHR CIHR Substance-Using Women and Their Hospital & Health Centre. Lifetime Passive Smoking Institute. Experiences of Primary Health Care. Questionnaire. St. Paul’s Hospital Women’s Satisfaction with Maternity Mental Health Guide. BC Ministry of Michael Smith Foundation for Health Youth Sexual Health Information Foundation Fir Square Combined Care Outcomes Care. BC Women’s Hospital & Health Health Research (MSFHR) Seeking. Options for Sexual Health (OPT) Study. BC Ministry of Health Centre Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Socioeconomic Costs of Palliative Home Policy Brief on Gender-Responsive Sex, Gender, and Resilience in Online Course. Justice Institute of BC Women and Tobacco Fact Sheets. Health Rural and Remote Women’s Health. Caregiving: A Gender Analysis. Health Tobacco Control. World Health Problematic Substance Use and Canada Health Canada and National Network of Canada Organization (WHO) and International Addictions. CIHR FASD Virtual Community. Province of Environments and Women’s Health Development Research Centre (IDRC) BC – Ministry of Children and Families Women and Substance Use: Current Assessing the Therapeutic Aspects of Understanding Community Capacity Canadian Perspectives. Centre for Impact of Restructuring on Rural, Redress Packages for Sexual Abuse Towards a Research Agenda on Gender in Mental Health Reform Through Gender-Based Analysis of the 2010 Addictions and Mental Health Remote & Northern Women’s Health. Survivors. SSHRC and Lung Health Workshop. Canadian an Examination of the Gendered Olympic Games. proMOTION plus Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Dimensions of the Riverview Support Interventions for Low Income Excellence, Status of Women Canada Canadian Journal of Midwifery Research Redevelopment Process. Social Sciences Sustainable Rural Maternity Care: Women Smokers. SSHRC and Practice. SSHRC and Association of Evidence Review of Workplace Smoking and Humanities Research Council Moving Forward with a Research Provincial Women’s Health Strategy. BC Ontario Midwives Policies (U.K.). National Institute for (SSHRC) Agenda. CIHR and BC Reproductive Care Issues in Rural Aboriginal Maternity Ministry of Health, BC Women’s Hospital Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) Program (BCRCP) Care. CIHR. & Health Centre Evaluation of the Pacific Native Women’s INWAT Tobacco and Women Website/ Association Community Support Evidence Review of National Health Database Development. Cancer Enhanced Services for Women: Women, Community and Control: Osteoporosis Clinic Evaluation. BC Training Program. BC Women’s Hospital Services Stop Smoking Services (U.K.). Research of U.K. Outcomes Research Project. Alberta Midwifery and Home Birth (1970-1990). Women’s Health Centre & Health Centre NICE Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission. Hannah Institute. Sex, Gender & Place: An Analysis of Investigating Mothering Under Duress: C C Midwifery in Canada: Directions for Mental Health Reform - Building Rural Youth’s Experiences with STI Testing. Responding to Rural Communities: International Research Team on Girls & Implications for Research, Intervention M M Research. SSHRC Community Capacity. MSFHR CIHR Building a Program of Research on Women’s Tobacco Use. CTCRI & Policy. Health Canada Maternity Care. CIHR Y Y Developing An Effective Health A Cohort Study of The Impact of Prion ActNow BC Healthy Choices in Pregnancy Immigrant Chinese & South Asian CFI Women’s Health TeleResearch CM CM Care Response to Benzodiazepine Disease on Farm Community Health. - Provincial Education and Resource Maternity Care Enhancement Project. Women’s Experience of Postpartum Centre. Western Economic Dependence in Canadian Men and PrioNet Canada Development. BC Ministry of Health BC Ministry of Health, BC Women’s MY MY Depression. Vancouver Foundation Diversification, Canada Foundation for Innovation Support Program Women. CIHR Hospital & Health Centre CY CY A Gender Analysis of Tobacco Use GBA Case Study & Training Workshop. Gender Identity, Ethnic Identity and CMY CMY Women and Mental Health Across the during Pregnancy, Postpartum and Early Health Canada YWCA Housing Research - Pregnant Tobacco Use Among Adolescent Youth Health Program Evaluation. BC Aboriginal Girls. Vancouver Foundation Women’s Hospital & Health Centre. Lifespan. BC Ministry of Health Services Childhood. CIHR Women and New Mothers with K K Sex and Gender Analysis of the Substance Use Issues. YWCA, BC Trans-disciplinary Care for Substance Sex, Gender, and Diversity Analysis of Canadian Addictions Survey. Health Ministry of Children and Family Integration of a Smoking Intervention Midwifery: Building our Contribution Using Pregnant Women. CIHR Tobacco Use Assessment Instruments. Canada Development Within an Eating Disorders Program: to Maternity Care (symposium). BC ICEBERGS (CIHR) A Preliminary Study. BC Women’s & Women’s Hospital & Health Centre National Training Initiative in Women’s Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Research Transformational Education Program Children’s Hospital Health: Proposal Development. CIHR Lay Understandings of Lung Disease. Network. Canada Northwest FASD for Consumers with Breast Cancer. Best Practices Review of Smoking ICEBERGS (CIHR) Partnership and 7 Western Provincial and Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Better Practices Review of Impact of Cessation Strategies for Pregnant and Evaluation of Women’s Health Programs. Territorial Governments Tobacco Control Policy on Vulnerable Post Partum Women. Public Works and BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre An International Exploration of Policy The Community Initiatives Fund Populations. CTCRI, SSHRC Government Services Canada Science Discourses Around Gender and COPD. Evaluation of the Sheway Project for Training Project. Vancouver Coastal Teen Girls and Smoking Proposal Directorate Establishing a System for Research ICEBERGS (CIHR) High-Risk Pregnant and Parenting Health Authority (VCHA) Development. CIHR Coordination, Enhancement and Women. Vancouver Native Health Women’s Health Surveillance Project. Proposal Development Across Aboriginal Adolescent Girls and Society; Health Canada. Women’s Health Research Network. Rural Women’s Experiences of Maternity Health Canada Specialized Women’s Health Programs at Smoking. CIHR MSFHR Care: Implications for Policy and Children’s and Women’s Health Centre The Human Face of Mental Health And Practice. Status of Women Canada FAS & Women’s Health: Setting a of BC. BC Women’s Hospital & Health Responding to the Global Female Mental Illness in Canada. Health Canada Women’s Attitudes Towards Patient- Research Agenda. CIHR Centre Tobacco Epidemic: A Canadian Led Initiated Caesarean Section. SSHRC Peer Support Worker Training 2004. Initiative. Health Canada, American National Health Indicators Workshop. VCHA Above Ground and Under-ground: Designing a Staged Women’s Health Cancer Society, L’Institut National du Health Canada Women’s Attitudes Towards Elective BC’s First School of Midwifery. Hannah Planning Process for British Columbia Cancer (France) Patient-Initiated Caesarean Section. Centre on Girls, Women and Addictions Institute Women’s Hospital BC Women’s Hospital Benzodiazepine Utilization Literature CIHR (IMPART). CIHR & Health Centre Coalescing on Women’s Substance Use Review. Health Canada Issues. Health Canada
32 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 33 backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM 2:29:50 12/18/2006 backdrop_right_plain.pdf backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM Midlife Health Project. Ministry of Economic Costs of Child Sexual Abuse. Continence Program at BC Women’s Health Health Canada Hospital and Health Care Centre. BC APPENDIX C: Publication Highlights 2001-2006 Women’s Hospital & Health Centre Evaluation of a Training Program Development of Research in Maternity, n addition to our own publishing program, which has produced reports from the seed grant program, staff and associates on Trauma and Revictimization at Addictions and Women-centred Care. Evaluation of the Oaktree Program on a Psychiatric Hospital (Riverview). BC Women’s Hospital Foundation HIV/AIDS Outreach at BC Women’s Iof the BCCEWH have published their work in numerous forms. Listed below are selected publications of the past five years. Riverview Hospital Hospital and Health Centre. BC Women’s Preliminary Investigation of the Hospital & Health Centre Books and Book Chapters (pp. 255-265). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Devries KM, Greaves L. (2004). Smoking Socioeconomic Costs of Teenage Therapeutic Consequences of Civil Evaluation Framework for BC Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. cessation programs for pregnant women: Pregnancy. Health Canada Litigation Compensation Claims by Women’s Hospital and Health Centre Armstrong, P., Amaratunga, C., Bernier, J., Current Canadian programs and future Victims of Sexual Abuse. The Law on Reproductive Mental Health. BC Grant, K., Pederson, A. & K. Willson (eds.). Poole, N. and L Greaves (eds). (forthcoming) development. Canadian Journal of Public Mothering Under Duress: Policy Foundation of British Columbia Women’s Hospital & Health Centre (2001). Exposing Privatization: Women and Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Health. 95(4):278-279. Discourses in the Context of Woman Health Care Reform in Canada. Toronto: Women and Substance Use. Toronto: Centre Feldthusen B, Greaves L, Hankivsky O. Abuse, Illicit Substance Use and Mental Sexual Assault and the Collection of Consultation to the Women and Tobacco Garamond. for Addictions and Mental Health. (2000). Therapeutic consequences of civil Illness. Status of Women Canada Forensic Evidence. BC Women’s Hospital Research Project: The Role of Smoking Poole, N., Greaves, L., Jategaonkar, J., actions for damages and compensation & Health Centre in the Lives of Young Women on Low Grant, K., Armstrong, P., Amaratunga, C., McCullough, L., Chabot, C. (forthcoming claims by victims of sexual abuse. Canadian Lesbian Health: Raising Awareness Incomes. Social Planning & Research Boscoe, M., Clow, B., Jackson, B., Pederson, 2007) Influencing Women’s Substance Use: Journal of Women and the Law 12(1):66-116. and Improving Access to Quality Care. The Dome of Silence: Sexual Council of BC A. & K. Willson. (eds.) (2004). Caring For/ The Role of Transition Houses. In: Poole, Health Canada, Status of Women Canada Harrassment and Abuse in Sport. Sport Caring About: Women, Home Care, and N., Greaves, L (editors) Highs and Lows: Greaves L. (2002). The Young Female Canada, University of Winnipeg Canadian Women’s Health On-line: Unpaid Caregiving. Toronto: Garamond. Canadian Perspectives on Women and Smoker: What Can the Physician Do? The Technical Cooperation Between Canada Outlining Strategies for Internet Substance Use. Centre for Addiction and Female Patient, Vol. 27, April: 17-21. and Costa Rica on Women’s Health. Pan Women’s Mental Health Demonstration Activism. Canadian Research Institute Greaves L. “Smoke Screen: The Cultural Mental Health. American Health Organization Projects in British Columbia. BC for the Advancement of Women Meaning of Women’s Smoking.” In: Greaves L. Symbol and solace: Women, Ministry of Health Alexander A, Roberts M (editors) High Poole, N., Greaves, L. (forthcoming 2007) smoking and social control. Healthsharing The Challenges of Change: The Alberta Alcohol & Drug Abuse culture: Reflections on addiction and Pregnancy, Mothering and Substance Use: Women. 1996;16 (6 and 7):1,3. Midlife Health Needs of Women With Violence & Trauma in the Lives of Commission Effects Series - Review & modernity. State University of New York Towards a Balanced Response. In: Poole, Disabilities. Health Transition Fund Women Who Have Been Diagnosed With Recommendations. Alberta Alcohol and Press (SUNY). 2002. N., Greaves, L (editors) Highs and Lows: Greaves L, Chabot C, Jategaonkar N, Poole a Serious Mental Illness. BC Ministry of Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC) Canadian Perspectives on Women and N, McCullough L. (2006). Substance use Gender and Health in the Canadian Health Kirby, S., Greaves, L, and Reid, C. Experience, Substance Use. Centre for Addiction and among women in shelters for abused Institutes of Health Research. Medical Research Bulletins. Health Canada Research, Social Change: Methods into the Mental Health. women and children: Programming Research Council of Canada Social Justice & Women’s Health: A . Women and HIV/AIDS Mainstream. Toronto: Broadview Press, opportunities. Canadian Journal of Public Canadian Perspective. Maritime Centre . Mental Health and Addictions in 2006. Reid, Colleen.(2004) The Wounds of Health. 97(5), 388-392. Creating Solutions, Women Preventing of Excellence for Women’s Health, Health Women Exclusion:Poverty, Women’s Health and C C FAS. BC Health Research Foundation Canada . Voices From the Community Kirby S, Greaves L, Hankivsky O. Women Social Justice. Edmonton, AB: Qualitative Greaves, L., Jategaonkar, N. (2006) Institute Press. . Safety First: Women and Health M M Under the Dome of Silence: Sexual Tobacco policies and vulnerable girls and Coordination of the Working Group The Legal System & Its Impact Protection Harassment and Abuse of Female Athletes. women: toward a framework for gender Y Y Salmon, A. (in press) Beyond Shame and on Gender and Women’s Health in the on Women’s Health: A Largely . What Counts and Who’s Counted in Canadian Woman Studies, An Introductory Blame: Aboriginal Mothers, Fetal Alcohol sensitive policy development. Journal of CM CM nd CIHR. Health Canada Uninvestigated Terrain. MCEWH/Health Women’s Health Research? Reader; Revised 2 Edition. Inanna Spectrum Disorders, and Barriers to Care. Epidemiology and Community Health. Vol Canada. . Who Cares? MY MY Publications. 2006. In Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives 60, 57-65. “Catching our Breath”, Evaluation of . What Makes Us Healthy, What Makes CY CY on Women and Substance Use, N. Poole& a Women-Centred Tobacco Cessation Reformed or Rerouted? Women and Us Sick? O’Neill, M., Pederson, A., Dupéré, S., L. Greaves, (eds). Centre for Addiction and Greaves, L., J. Johnson, J. Bottorff, S. CMY CMY Program. Aurora Centre, BC Women’s Change in the Health Care System. . What’s Policy Got to Do with It? Rootman, I. (Eds). (forthcoming). Health Mental Health Kirkland, N. Jategaonkar, M. McGowan, L.
Hospital & Health Centre Health Canada and York University . What do Women Want? K K promotion in Canada: Critical perspectives. McCullough, L. Battersby. (2006). What are . Does Sex Matter? Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press. Peer-reviewed Journal Articles the effects of tobacco policies on vulnerable FUS/ION: A Model for Integrated Hearing Voices: Mental Health Care for populations? A better practices review. Research in Women’s Health. Medical Women. Developing a women-Centered Pederson, A. (forthcoming). Twelve Bottorff, JL, Kalaw C, Johnson JL, Stewart Canadian Journal of Public Health. 97(4), Research Council, BC Women’s Hospital Mental Health Care System. BC Ministry Canadian portraits: health promotion in M, Greaves L and Carey J. (2006) Couple 310-315. & Health Centre, Health Canada of Health, BC Ministry of Women’s the provinces and territories, 1994 – 2006. dynamics during women’s tobacco Equality, Canadian Mental Health In M. O’Neill, A. Pederson, S. Dupéré & reduction in pregnancy and postpartum. Greaves L, Pederson A, Varcoe C, Poole Addressing Gender and Women’s Health Association I. Rootman (eds.), Health Promotion in Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Vol 8, No 4, N, Morrow M, Johnson J, Irwin L. (2004). within the CIHR. SSHRC, Canadian Canada: Critical Perspectives. Toronto: 499-509. Mothering under Duress: Women caught Health Services Research Foundation Gender-Inclusive Health Planning Canadian Scholars Press. in a web of discourses. Journal of the (CHSRF) Project: Development of a Tool for Bottorff, J.L., Kalaw, C., Johnson, J.L., Association for Research on Mothering Health Planners in Regional Health Pederson, A., & Raphael, D. (2006). Gender, Stewart, M., & Greaves, L. (2005). Tobacco 6(1):16-27. Development of a Gender Economic Authorities in BC. BC Ministry of Health Race and Health Inequalities. In D. Raphael, use in intimate spaces: Issues in the Costing Group and a Generic Model for T. Bryant & M. Rioux (eds.), Staying alive: qualitative study of couple dynamics. Greaves L, Poole N. (2005) Victimized or Quantifying Various Women’s Health Filtered Policy: Women and Tobacco in critical perspectives on health, illness, and Qualitative Health Research, 15 (4), 564-577. validated? Responses to substance-using Issues. SSHRC Canada. Health Canada health care. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ pregnant women. Canadian Woman Evaluation of the Outreach of the Press. Bottorff, J.L., Kalaw, C., Johnson, J.L., Studies, Vol 24, No 1, 87-95. Chambers, N., Stewart, M., Greaves, L., & Pederson, A., Rootman, I., & M. O’Neill. Kelly, M. (2005). Unravelling smoking ties: Greaves, L, Tungohan, E. (forthcoming 2007) (2005). “Health promotion in Canada: How tobacco use is embedded in couple Engendering Tobacco Control: Using an Back to the past or towards a promising interactions. Research in Nursing and international public health treaty to reduce future?” In A. Scriven and S. Garman (eds.), Health, 28, 316-328. smoking and empower women. Tobacco Promoting Health: Global Perspectives Control.
34 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 35 backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM 12:35:07 1/2/2007 backdrop_left_plain.pdf backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM Greaves, L., Vallone, D., Velicer, W. (2006) Poole, N, Greaves L, Jategaonkar N, Greaves, L. Women-Centred Health of The Human Face of Mental Health and and Drug Abuse Commission. 2004 Frisby W, Blair F, Dorer T, Hill L, Fenton Special Effects: Tobacco Policies and Low McCullough L, Chabot C. (forthcoming Research: A Strategy for BC Women’s. (2004) Mental Illness in Canada. Vancouver, BC: Poole N, Jategaonkar N, Greaves L, J, Kopelow B. Taking action: Mobilizing Socioeconomic Status Girls and Women. 2007) Substance Use by Women Using BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. McCullough L, and Chabot C. Tracking communities to provide recreation for Journal of Epidemiology and Community Domestic Violence Shelters. Substance Use 2005 Alcohol Use in Women Who Move through women on low incomes. 2001. Health. Vol 60, 1-2. and Misuse. Vol 43. Greaves L, Ballem P. Fusion: A model for Domestic Violence Shelters. Communique: Kazanjian A, Savoie I, Morettin D. Health Greaves, L., Vallone, D., Allen, J. (2006) The integrated health research. Vancouver (BC): Greaves L, Pederson A. Making Waves: The Newsletter of the BC/Yukon Society of care utilization and gender: A pilot study JECH Gallery. Journal of Epidemiology and Poole N, Greaves L, Cormier R. (2003). BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health Report 1996-2001. BC Centre of Excellence Transition Houses, Feb 2005:22-23. using the BC linked health database. 2001. Community Health. Vol 60, 33. Integrating Treatment for Tobacco and (Can): British Columbia Women’s Hospital for Women’s Health (Can): British Columbia Other Addictions at the Aurora Centre of and Health Sciences Centre; 2001. Women’s Hospital and Health Centre; 2001. Salmon, A, Poole, N, Morrow, M, Greaves, Kornelsen J (Editor). Midwifery in Canada: Hankivsky O, McPhail F, Friesen J, Varcoe the British Columbia Women’s Hospital and L, Ingram, R, and Pederson, A. Integrating Directions for research – Proceedings C, Greaves L, Spencer C. (2004). Expanding Health Centre. Canadian Journal of Nursing Greaves L, Barr V. Filtered policy: Women Greaves L, Varcoe C, Poole N, Morrow M, Sex and Gender in Mental Health and from the national invitational workshop economic costing in health care: values, Research, 35(1):95-102. and tobacco in Canada. Vancouver (BC): Johnson J, Pederson A, Irwin L. (2002). A Addictions Policy: Considerations and on midwifery research May 11-13, 2001, gender and diversity. Canadian Public Women’s Health Bureau (Can): Health Motherhood Issue: Discourses on mothering Recommendations for Federal Policy Vancouver, British Columbia. 2002. Policy 30(3):257-282. Poole, N., Salmon, A., Greaves, L. (2006) Canada, 2000. under duress. Ottawa: Status of Women Development. Vancouver, BC. British Drinking More and Enjoying it Less: Girls, Canada. Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Kornelsen J (Editor). Midwifery: Building Harris R, Stickney J, Grasely C, Hutchinson Women and Alcohol. Visions, 2(9): 11-14. Greaves L, Cormier R. Teenage Girls and Health. 2006 our Contribution to Maternity Care G, Greaves L, Boyd T. (2001). Searching Smoking: A Research Agenda – A Workshop Horne T, Barr V.J., Greaves L. Evaluation – Proceedings from the Working Symposium for help and information: Abused women Salmon, A. (2004). ‘It Takes a Community’: Report. Canadian Institutes of Health of catching our breath: A women-centred Salmon, A, Poole, N, Morrow, M, Greaves, May 1-2, 2002, Vancouver British Columbia. speak out. Library and Information Science Constructing Aboriginal Mothers and Research. 2002. tobacco reduction program. Aurora Centre, L, Ingram, R, and Pederson, A. Integrating 2003. Research. 23: 123-141. Children with FAS/FAE as Objects of Moral Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of Sex and Gender in Mental Health and Panic in/through a FAS/FAE Prevention Greaves L, Cormier R, Devries KM, Bottorff BC; 1999. Addictions Policy: Considerations and Kornelsen J, Carty E. Experiences of Jackson, B. E., Pederson, A., Armstrong, Policy. Journal of the Association for J, Johnson J, Kirkland S, Aboussafy D. Recommendations for Federal Policy registering to be a midwife in British P., Boscoe, M., Clow, B., Grant, K. R., Research on Mothering 6(1). 112-123. Expecting to Quit: a Best Practices review Kirkland S, Greaves L, Devichand P. (2003a). Development. Vancouver, BC. British Columbia. 2001. Guberman, N. and K. Willson (2004). of smoking cessation interventions for Gender Differences in Smoking and Self Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s ‘Quality is like a carton of eggs:’ Using a Toepell A, Greaves L. (2001). Experience of pregnant and postpartum women and girls. Reported Indicators of Health in Marie Health. 2006 Kornelsen J, Carty E. A difficult labour: Gender-Based Diversity Analysis to Assess abuse among women visiting incarcerated Vancouver, BC: BC Centre of Excellence for DesMeules et al (eds.) Women’s Health Experiences of registering to be a midwife in Quality of Health Care. Canadian Woman partners. Violence Against Women 7(1):80-109. Women’s Health. 2003. Surveillance Report: A multidimensional Policy Briefs British Columbia. 2001. Studies, 24(1): 15 – 22. look at the health of Canadian women Scientific and Technical Reports Greaves L, Hankivsky O. Expectations under (pp11-12) Ottawa: Canadian Institute for Currie, J. Manufacturing Addiction – The Lee P. M. In the absence of consent: Sexual Jategaonkar, N., Greaves, L., Poole, N., L. review: The therapeutic consequences of Health Information. (summary report) Over-Prescription of Benzodiazepines and assault, unconsciousness and forensic McCullough & C. Chabot. (2006) ‘Still Bell, Kirsten; McCullough, Lucy; Greaves, compensation claims by victims of sexual Sleeping Pills to Women in Canada. 2003. evidence. 2001. Out There’ Experiencing Substance Use Lorraine; Mulryne, Ruth; Jategaonkar, abuse. BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Kirkland S, Greaves L, Devichand P. (2003b). & Violence in Rural British Columbia. Natasha; Devries, Karen (2006) The Health (Can): British Columbia Women’s Gender differences in smoking and Self Greaves L. Ensuring a Good Death Luce J. Making choices/taking chances: C C Canadian Woman Studies. 24(4):136-141. Effectiveness of National Health Service Hospital and Health Centre; 2001. Reported Indicators of Health in Marie – Improving Palliative Care for Patients and Lesbian/bi/queer women, assisted conception Intensive Treatments for Smoking Cessation M M DesMeulles et al (eds.) Women’s Health Caregivers. 2003. and reproductive health. 2002.
Kirby S, Greaves L, Hankivsky O. (2002). in England: a Rapid Review. National Greaves L, Hankivsky O, Amaratunga C, Y Y Surveillance Report: A multidimensional Women Under the Dome of Silence: Sexual Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence, Ballem P, Chow D, De Koninck M, Grant K, look at the health of Canadian women (pp1- Kornelsen, J. Solving the Maternity Care Morrow M. Demonstrating Progress – harassment and abuse of female athletes. United Kingdom. Lippman A, Maclean K, Maher J, Messing D CM CM 15) Ottawa: Canadian Institute for Health Crisis – Making Way for Midwifery’s Innovations in Women’s Mental Health. 2003.
Canadian Woman Studies 21(3): 132-138. and Vissandjée. CIHR 2000: Sex, Gender and MY MY Information. Contribution. 2003. Bell, Kirsten; McCullough, Lucy; Devries, Women’s Health. BC Centre of Excellence Morrow M. Violence and Trauma in the CY CY Kirby S, Greaves L. (1997). Un jeu interdit: le Karen; Greaves, Lorraine; Jategaonkar, for Women’s Health (Can): British Columbia Kornelsen, J., Grzybowski, S., Anhorn, Morrow, M. Mainstreaming Women’s Mental Lives of Women with Serious Mental Illness: harcelement sexuel dans le sport. Recherche Natasha (2006) Workplace policies for Women’s Hospital and Health Centre; 1999. CMY CMY M., Cooper, E., Galvin, L., Pederson, Health – Building a Canadian Strategy. 2003. Current Practices in Service Provision in
feministes 10(1):5-33. smoking cessation: a Rapid Review. National K K A., & Sullivan, L. (2005). Rural women’s British Columbia. 2002. Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence, Greaves L, Hankivsky O, Livadiotakis G, experiences of maternity care: Implications Poole N. Mother and Child Reunion – Kirkland S, Greaves L, Devichand P. (2004). United Kingdom. Cormier R, Saunders L, Galvin L, Vissandjee for policy and practice. Ottawa: Status of Preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Pederson A, Tweed A. Registering the Impact Gender differences in smoking and self B, Carlier P, Zanchetta M, Amaratunga C, Women Canada. by Promoting Women’s Health. 2003. of Breast Implants 2007. (in press). reported indicators of health. BMC Women’s Bell, Kirsten; Richardson, Lindsay; Gahagan J, Reynolds A. Final Payments: Health, Suppl 1:S7. McCullough, Lucy; Greaves, Lorraine Socioeconomic Costs of Palliative Home Pearce, D, Schwartz and Greaves L. No Pearce, D. Curing Inequity: Toward Poole N, Isaac B. Apprehensions: Barriers (2006) Workplace interventions for smoking Caregiving in the Last Month of Life (2002). Gift: Tobacco Policy and Aboriginal People Gendered Aboriginal Tobacco Policy. 2007 (in to treatment for substance-using mothers. McCullough L, Jategaonkar N, Greaves L, cessation: a rapid review. National Institute Women’s Health Bureau, Health Canada. in Canada. Vancouver, BC. BC Centre of press) 2001. Chabot C and Poole N. (2004). Changes in of Health and Clinical Excellence, United Excellence for Women’s Health. 2006 (In substance use, violence and stress among Kingdom. Greaves L, Jategaonkar N, Sanchez S. press) Seed Grant Project Reports 2001 - 2006 Reid C. A full measure: Towards a women in transition houses in rural areas. Turning a New Leaf: Women, Tobacco, and These reports were all published by the BC comprehensive model for the measurement Visions 2(4):39-40. Greaves, L. Sifting the Evidence: Global the Future. Vancouver, BC, British Columbia Pederson A, Hankivsky O, Morrow M & Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health of women’s health. 2002. Tobacco Policy and Gender. World Health Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. Greaves L. Exploring Concepts of Gender (Can): British Columbia Women’s Hospital Morrow, M. Mental Health Reform, Organization Forthcoming, 2007 2006. and Health. Ottawa: Health Canada, and Health Centre. Riddell L, Greenberg K, Meister J, Kornelsen Economic Globalization and the Practice Women’s Health Bureau; 2003. J. We’re Women Too: Identifying Barriers of Citizenship. Canadian Journal of Greaves L. Women and Girls. In: R. Lyons Greaves L, Johnson J, Bottorff J, Kirkland S, Anderson L, Healy T. Herringer B, Isaac to Gynecologic and Breast Health Care for Community Mental Health Vol 23 (2) Fall, (editor) Social Sciences and Humanities in Jategaonkar N, McGowan M, McCullough Poole, N & Dell, C.A. (2005). Girls, Women B, Perry T. Out in the cold: The context of Women with Disabilitie. s2003. 2004:39-50. Health Research: A Canadian Snapshot of L, Battersby L. Reducing Harm: A Better and Substance use. Ottawa, ON. Canadian lesbian health in northern British Columbia. Fields of Study and Innovative Approaches Practices Review of Tobacco Policy and Centre on Substance Abuse. 2001. Tweed A. Health Care Utilization Among O’Neill, Michel, Pederson, A., & I. Rootman. to Understanding and Addressing Health Vulnerable Populations. Vancouver, BC. BC Women Who Have Undergone Breast (2001). La promotion de la sante: Declin ou Issues. (pp 72-73) Ottawa: CIHR, SSHRC. Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. 2006. Poole N, Horne T, Greaves L, Chovanec D, Fiske J, Browne A. The Discredited Medical Implant Surgery. 2003. mutation? Ruptures, revue tansdisciplinaire 2005 and Watkins M. Windows of Opportunity: Subject in Health Policy and Practice: en sante, 7(1): 20-31. Greaves L, Morrow M, Pederson A, Poole N. A statistical profile of substance use among First Nations Women in Northern British Gender–based Analysis of Selected Elements women in their child bearing years in Columbia (in press). Alberta. Edmonton, AB. Alberta Alcohol 36 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 37 backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM 2:29:50 12/18/2006 backdrop_right_plain.pdf backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM Canada. Life Review as Research and Tobacco Control Policies: Do they make a Breaking Down the Barriers to Maternal APPENDIX D: Selected Presentations 2001-2006 Intervention. difference for low SES women and girls? Care and the Prevention of FASD. peakers representing the BCCEWH appear at conferences and meetings worldwide. This list contains highlights of Heart and Stroke Foundation - Vancouver, IAPESGW Congress - Edmonton, AB, International Academy of Eating BC, Canada. Tobacco Policy: Influences on Canada. Beyond Keeping Score: A Gender- Disorders Annual Conference - Montreal, presentations given over the past five years. S vulnerable populations. Based Diversity Analysis of the 2010 Winter QC, Canada. Integration of a smoking Olympic and Paralympic Games. intervention within an eating disorder 2006 Use Issues: The Role of Anti-Violence – A Pilot Study. Addressing Pregnancy & Addiction program: a preliminary study. Services. . Impairing Agency: Exploring the Ethics of Conference, Motherisk, Sick Children’s Rural & Northern Health Research Workshop on Health Promotion and Participatory Qualitative Health Research Hospital - Toronto, ON, Canada. Moving – Bridging the Distance: 6th Conference 5th Australian Women’s Health Conference Women’s Health - Kuwait City, Kuwait. American Sociological Association with “Addicted” Women. Systems to Improve Women’s Health and on the Canadian Rural Health Research - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. . Health Promotion for Women: Continuing Conference – Montreal, QC, Canada. . Housing as a Critical Support for Mothers Prevent FASD. Making all Knowledge Count Society and the 1st Conference of the . Gender and tobacco treatment, programs the Dialogue Hidden Realities: Women and Health Care whose Lives include Substance Use. in Addressing Pregnancy and Addiction. Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health and policies: what is a woman– centred . Understanding Health Promotion for in Practice in Canada. - Quebec City, QC, Canada. Aboriginal approach? Women 17th International Conference on the Healthy Living, Healthy Children & Community Members and University . Dare to Dream: Resisting Gender . Strategies and Approaches to Health The International Society for Equity in Reduction of Drug Related Harm - Families, Healthy Communities: BC Researchers Reflect on Collaborative Neutrality in Primary Health Care Reform Promotion for Women Health, ISEqH 4th Biennial Conference Vancouver, BC, Canada. Housing Support Early Childhood Development Provincial Research Partnerships: Lessons Learned in Canada. . Examples of Health Promotion in Canada - Adelaide, Australia. Creating Healthy in the Perinatal Period: Reducing Harms Conference - Vancouver, BC, Canada. from a Community-based FASD Project. Societies through inclusion and equity. “Can for High-risk, Substance Using Women and Working with Women on Substance Use and Key Centre for Women’s Health, University Let’s Talk about Addiction Conference an International Tobacco Control Treaty their Children. Related Health Issues. Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse of Melbourne/Royal Women’s Hospital - - Kamloops, BC, Canada. Pregnancy and Assist in Transforming Gender Relations?” conference; Issues of Substance - Toronto, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Mothering Substance Use: Supporting Health Care Canadian Public Health Association Justice Institute of BC and North Peace ON, Canada. Under Duress. Providers and Women through Education 1st Fraser Regional Conference on FASD - Vancouver, BC, Canada. What are the Community Resources Society - Fort St . Benzodiazepine Use and Mental Health and Research. - Vancouver, BC, Canada. Pregnancy and Effects of Tobacco Policies on Vulnerable John, BC, Canada. Women, Substance Issues among Aboriginal Seniors: Victorian Women’s Health and Wellbeing Substance Use: Promising Practices in Populations? Use and Experience of Violence/Trauma: Considerations for Research, Policy and Strategy Annual Forum - Melbourne, The 6th National Harm Reduction Prevention. Responding to the Connections. Practice. Victoria, Australia. Engaging with young Conference - Drug User Heath: The Politics 2nd International Congress on Qualitative . Housing as a Critical Support for Pregnant women and their health. and the Personal - Oakland, CA, USA. Workshops (sponsored by community Inquiry - Illinois, USA. Impairing Agency: Annual Best Start Conference - Toronto, Women and New Mothers with Substance Housing and Women-Centered Harm service networks and funded by ActNow Exploring the Ethics of Participatory ON, Canada. Mothering Under Duress: Use Problems. INWAT Europe, Expert Seminar - Reduction: Examples of Canadian Programs BC Healthy Choices in Pregnancy) - British Qualitative Health Research with “Addicted” Pregnancy, Motherhood and Substance Use Barcelona, Spain. Gender, Power and for Substance-Using Mothers and their Columbia, Canada. Working with Women Women. in Canada. 4th National Conference on Tobacco or Environmental Tobacco Policies. Children. on Substance Use and Related Health Issues Health - Ottawa, ON, Canada. Pre- during and Post Pregnancy. Ontario Training Centre for Health Services Moving Forward: Treatment Prevention . Quit smoking telephone counselling Counseling Protocol Meeting - Ottawa, Best Practices – Early Intervention, and Policy Research - Ontario, Canada. C C and Hope for Substance Abuse, National protocol for pregnant and postpartum ON, Canada. Quit smoking telephone Outreach and Community Linkages for 13th World Conference on Tobacco or Understanding Women’s Health and Gender M M Conference - Saskatoon, SK, Canada. women. counseling protocol for pregnant and Women with Substance Use Problems Health - Washington DC, USA. and Health. Gender Specific Approaches to the . Tobacco and vulnerable populations: postpartum women. Workshop (sponsored by Health Canada) - . Research to Action: smoking cessation Y Y Treatment of Women with Substance Use better practices in policies and programs. Ottawa, ON, Canada. Exploring Community for pregnant and postpartum women. Ontario Women’s Health Council CM CM Problems. . Trauma-informed tobacco treatment. Health Living, Healthy Children & Families, Linkages: More than Linked Services. Tobacco or Equality? conference. Enhancing Women’s MY MY . Emergent theory and better practices in Healthy Communities, BC ECD Provincial . Moving Forward: Women, Tobacco, and Health Research - Ottawa, ON, Canada. 2005 tobacco reduction: women, pregnancy Conference - Vancouver, BC, Canada. The Multidisciplinary Rounds presented the Future Research Without Borders, Divisions and CY CY and motherhood. SMART Guide in Action: Using Motivational through Telehealth sites across BC, from . Vulnerable populations and the Departments. CMY CMY BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum - Interviewing Techniques when Discussing Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of development of tobacco control Vancouver, BC, Canada. GBA and the 2010 Society of Disability Studies 18th Annual Substance Use with Pregnant Women. BC - Vancouver, BC, Canada. Alcohol & interventions and policies Association of Substance Abuse Programs K K Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Meeting - San Francisco, CA, USA. It Tobacco: Collaborative Intervention with . Applying a Gender Based Analysis to of British Columbia Annual Conference Helps, The Labels: Young Aboriginal Atlantic FASD Networking Conference Pregnant Women. Tobacco Policies - Richmond, BC, Canada. Working on FASD: WHO Meeting on the Development of Mothers Negotiating the Contradictions - Moncton, NB, Canada. Preventing FASD: The Role of the Addictions Field. Policy Recommendations for Gender and Contestations of Medicalization, Lessons from the Past Decade, Moving 17th National AWHONN Canada Summer Institute, Canadian Centre on Responsive Tobacco Control - Ottawa, ON, Racialization, Gender, and Fetal Alcohol Forward with Evidence and Heart. Conference, Promoting the Health of Substance Abuse - Stanhope Beach, PEI, University of British Columbia Canada. Sifting the evidence: gender and Syndrome. Women and Newborns - Calgary, AB, Canada. Partnerships that Move Systems to Collaboration for Maternal and Newborn global tobacco policy. Provincial Women’s Health Network Canada. Pregnancy and Substance Use: Improve Women’s Health and Prevent FASD. Health - Vancouver, BC, Canada. Substance The 1st International Congress on Meeting - Vancouver, BC, Canada. Supporting Health Care Providers and Use and Pregnancy: Current Research and CHEST Foundation- American College of Qualitative Inquiry - Illinois, USA. How Do Addressing the Women’s Mental Health Women through Education and Research. Maternal Child/Youth Conference Future Directions. Chest Physicians - Montreal, QC, Canada. You Measure Empowerment: Contesting and Addictions Priority in the Provincial - Vancouver, BC, Canada. Supporting Tobacco Use Prevention with Women and the Terrains of Partnership, Indigenous Women’s Health Strategy. Honouring Your Health Conference Maternal and Child Health: Housing, Shelter PHSA Tobacco Advisory Committee - Girls. Knowledges, and Participatory Action (sponsored by the Aboriginal Tobacco and Women’s Substance Use and Recovery. Vancouver, BC, Canada. Reducing Harm: Research in/ and Aboriginal Community 2004 Strategy of the BC Ministry of Health) Better Practices Review of Tobacco Policy Invited presentation to UBC Faculty of Development? - Vancouver, BC, Canada. Pregnancy and Taking the Pulse of Women’s Health and Tobacco Populations. Education Diversity Cohort, Teacher Using the Better Practices Model to Inform Substance Use: Promising Practices in Research: Women’s Health Research Education Program - Vancouver, BC, 1st Symposium on Women’s Health - Kuwait School Health Researchers: An Interactive Prevention. Network Summer Institute - Vancouver, BC, Your Body’s Your Own Conference, Canada. What’s in a Name? Naming City, Kuwait. Reflections on Primary Care Workshop - Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. Canada. Government of Yukon Women’s Directorate and Claiming Disability in Social Justice and Promoting Women’s Health: A Canadian Expecting to Quit: A Best Practices Review Web casts associated with the Coalescing . Supporting Maternal and Child Health: - Whitehorse, YK, Canada. Women and Education. Perspective. of Smoking Cessation Interventions for on Women and Substance Use Issues: Housing, Shelter and Women's Substance Substance Use: Exploring New Knowledge International Meeting on Inuit and Native Pregnant and Postpartum Girls and Women. Linking Research Practice and Policy Use and Recovery. and Approaches to Support. Women and The Tobacco and Health Disparities American Child Health - Seattle, WA, Public Health Nurses Leaders Conference, - Vancouver, BC Canada. Working with . Life Review in Women with Chronic Substance Use: Reducing Harm. Research Network - Bethesda, MD, USA. USA. Canadian Urban Aboriginal Mothers: Perinatal Tobacco Session - Richmond, BC, Women on Violence-related and Substance Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Canada. Expecting to Quit and Quitline. 11th International Qualitative Health Research Conference - Edmonton, AB, 38 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 39 backdrop_right_plain.pdf 12/18/2006 2:29:50 PM 2:29:50 12/18/2006 backdrop_right_plain.pdf backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM Substance Use Certificate Program, 12th World Conference on Tobacco or First Nations and Inuit Branch Tobacco Justice Institute of British Columbia Health – Global Action For a Tobacco Free Division - Calgary, AB, Canada. Training APPENDIX E: BCCEWH Events 2001-2006 - New Westminster, BC Canada. Women Future - Helsinki, Finland. Session for Aboriginal Tobacco Consultants & Tobacco Use: Community Voices/ . Gender analysis and tobacco control on Gender, Policy and Aboriginal Tobacco he BCCEWH hosts numerous events each year, including a Speaker Series and periodic workshops. Contemporary Issues. – making research, policy and practice Use. more gender sensitive. T Health Canada Science Research Forum . Best Practices in smoking cessation IGH Award Recipient Symposium and 2006 Community Based Research And Forum on Sexual Health. - Ottawa, ON, Canada. Changing the during pregnancy. Workshop - Toronto, ON, Canada. Aboriginal Women’s Health And Healing. . Natasha Jategaonkar, Tobacco Research paradigm about women and heath care . Integration of a smoking cessation . Teen Girls and Smoking: A Research Appraisal of Rural Women’s Reproductive . Kim Anderson, Author and Chair, Co-ordinator, BCCEWH. reform. treatment program into a women’s Agenda. Health Management: Programs and Aboriginal Women’s Health and Healing . Emily Falk, Fulbright Scholar, BCCEWH. residential substance use treatment . Women and Mental Health Across the Practices in India. Research Group. . Karen Devries, Researcher in Addictions, SIDS International Conference - program. Lifespan: Creating a National Cross- . Savita Singal, Professor in Family BCCEWH. Edmonton, AB, Canada. Expecting to Quit: Disciplinary Research Agenda and Resource Management, CCS Haryana The Challenge Of Collaboration: . Sondi Bruner, School of Journalism, Best Practices in Smoking Cessation During 14th International Congress on Women’s Strategy. Agricultural University, Hisar, India.. Professional Cultures In Australian University of British Columbia. Pregnancy. Health Issues: Building Alliances for Living, . Developing an Effective Health Care Maternity Care. Working, Research and Practice: Women’s Response to Benzodiazepine Dependence Turning a New Leaf: Women, Tobacco, and . Kerreen Reiger, Associate Professor, Deconstructing Social Capital to construct International Interdisciplinary Conference Health in the Postcolonial Context - in Canadian Men and Women. the Future. Sociology Program, School of Social the path of social integration. on Gender, Sexuality and Health - Victoria, BC, Canada. Trade Agreements . Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Women’s . Natasha Jategaonkar, Research Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. . Bilkis Vissandjee, Associate Professor, Vancouver, BC, Canada. and Health Policy: Implications for Women. Health: Setting a Women-centred Coordinator, BCCEWH. School of Nursing and School of Public . Changing the paradigm about women Research Agenda. . Lorraine Greaves, Executive Director, Doing It All: Integrated Support For Health, University of Montreal. and heath care reform. Femmes, santé mental et victimisation . Transdisciplinary Care for Substance- BCCEWH Women With Trauma, Mental Health And . Knowledge Translation and Research secondaire Collectif de défense des droits using Pregnant Women on Vancouver’s Substance Use Issues. 2004 Involvement in Women’s Health Policy de la Montérégie - Québec, Canada. Downtown Eastside: A descriptive study. Olympic Consensus on Safe Sport and The . Nancy Poole, Research Consultant, and Practice. . Developing Women-Centred Mental Child Athlete, Disability and Homophobia. Women and Substance Use Issues, Talking About Sex: what sport has done . The British Columbia Centre of Excellence Health Care Models. BC Addiction Foundation - Victoria, . Sandra Kirby, Professor of Sociology, BCCEWH. with it. for Women’s Health. An Overview of our . Violence and Trauma in the Lives of Canada. The FUSION model for developing University of Winnipeg. . Sandra Kirby, Professor of Sociology, first Seven Years: Some Illustrations of Women with Serious Mental Illness: multidisciplinary research. Shifting Landscapes: Immigrant Women University of Winnipeg. Women Centred Research. Current Practices in Service Provision in Considering Women’s Health Indicators And Post-Partum Depression. British Columbia. CCS/NCIC National Office - Toronto, ON, Workshop. . Marina Morrow, Research Associate, Grandparenting Narratives: The British Columbia & Yukon Society of Canada. Best Practices in Tobacco. . Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Executive BCCEWH. childbearing year. Transition Houses Training Session - Premier’s Dialogue on Health - Vancouver, Director, Prairie Women's Health Centre . Jules E. Smith, Research Coordinator, . Jeanette McMillan, Clinical Nurse Richmond, BC, Canada. Tracking Alcohol BC, Canada. Women as a Vulnerable Department of Health Policy, Management of Excellence. BCCEWH. Educator, VIHA South Island Intravenous Use in Women Who Move Through Population. & Evaluation, Faculty of Nursing - Toronto, C C . Suman Jaswal, Researcher, BCCEWH. Therapy Department. Domestic Violence Shelters. ON, Canada. Trade Agreements and Home Women, Girls and Self-Harm. . Yuan Lai, Researcher, BCCEWH. 2002 Care. M M . Colleen Anne Dell, Senior Research Islam and the female body: Negotiating Health Canada Policy Forum - Ottawa, Y Y Associate, Canadian Centre on Substance Making Sense Of Cigarette Brands: How do local and global influences on sport and ON, Canada. Coalescing on Addictions: 3rd National Conference on Tobacco or Johannes Gutenberg – University of Mainz - Abuse. they work and who are they for? exercise. Fusing our efforts in responding to women’s Health - Ottawa, ON, Canada. A holiday Mainz, Germany. Globalization, Health and CM CM . Stacy Carter, Researcher, School of Public . Jennifer Hargreaves, Professor of Sport substance use. gift! Tools and techniques for best practices. Gender: A Canadian Perspective. MY MY How should women’s health be measured Health, University of Sydney, Australia. Sociology, Department of Sport Sciences, Adolescent girls and smoking: Key research CY CY and what are good indicators of women’s Brunel University, London, UK. Ontario Tobacco Control Conference - directions and priorities. Canadian Psychological Association - health? Rural Women’s Health Research . Ghanima Mohammed Al-Othman Al- Toronto, ON, Canada. Expecting to Quit: Vancouver, BC, Canada. Presentation of CMY CMY . Ann Pederson, Manager Policy and Symposium. Hadair, Assistant Dean for Student Best Practices in smoking cessation during York University Conference - Toronto, ON, mental health policy research. K K Research, BCCEWH. . Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Executive Guidance, Deanery of Student Welfare pregnancy. Canada. Social Determinants of Health. Director, Prairie Women's Health Centre and Activities, College of Basic Education, Canadian Political Science Association of Excellence. Kuwait. At Moving Primary Health Care Forward: Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Annual General Meeting - Toronto, ON, Reflecting Women? Women’s Health . Lana Sullivan, Co-Research Coordinator, Many Successes, More to Do. National Commission - Calgary, AB, Canada. Canada. A Critique of Liberal Assessments Surveillance. Rural Maternity Care Research Program. Trauma and aggression in girls. Primary Health Care Conference - Working with Women with Addictions of an Ethic of Care. . Lorraine Greaves, Executive Director, . Stefan Grzybowski, Co-Director, Rural . Marlene Moretti, Professor, Department Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Dare to Dream: Problems. BCCEWH. Maternity Care Research Program. of Psychology, Simon Fraser University. Reflections from the National Workshop on Canadian Tobacco Control Research . Lorraine Greaves, Executive Director, Women and Primary Health Care. Rural Matters: CRRF Rural University - Summit - Ottawa, ON, Canada. Program 2005 BCCEWH. Sorting Through Research Problems: An Miramichi, NB, Canada. Service Provision committee membership, representing the Ethics and Methods Workshop. 2003 in Resource Town Transition Planning: A IGH of the CIHR. Women’s Health Policy in Australia: Knowledge translation to support clinical . Sandra Kirby, Professor of Sociology, Case from Northern BC. Challenges and Successes. practice: Developing women’s mental University of Winnipeg. Canadian Dental Association, 1st Annual 6th National Health Promotion Research . Marilyn Beaumont, Executive Director, health and substance use publications. Strategic Forum - Ottawa, ON, Canada. Association for Research on Mothering Conference - Victoria, BC, Canada. Women’s Health Victoria, Melbourne, . Julia Greenbaum, Publishing Developer, The health of street youth: a general The evolution of health promotion in conference, York University - Toronto, ON, FUSION: A model for integrated health Australia. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, review and results of a study of female Canada and its implications for oral health Canada. Mothering Under Duress. research. Using partnerships of knowledge Toronto. prostitution. promotion. to strengthen women’s health planning and Give It To Me Now: How And Where Young . Nancy Poole, Research Consultant, . Jean-François Boivin, Professor, Address to the Midwifery Education practice. Adults In BC Would Like To Receive Sexual BCCEWH. Epidemiology and Biostatisitics, McGill Program, University of British Columbia Health Information And Services. University. - Vancouver, BC, Canada. Birth in a . Emily Falk, Fulbright Scholar, BCCEWH. Technological Society.
40 Still Making Waves 10 Year Report 41 backdrop_left_plain.pdf 1/2/2007 12:35:07 PM 12:35:07 1/2/2007 backdrop_left_plain.pdf backdrop_insidecover.pdf 1/8/2007 5:40:16 PM Women’s Experience of Breast Cancer. . Monika Chappell, Executive Director, . JoAnn Leavey, OISE Department of . Sue Wilkinson, Professor of Feminist and Youthquest. Counselling Psychology, University of Contact Information Health Studies and Social Psychology . Marion Fallding, Chilliwack Mental Toronto. Programme Director, Loughborough Health. University, UK. . Kim Burton, Fraser Valley/West Coast 2002 For more information and additional copies please contact: Mental Health Support Teams. Fit and fat: Challenging myths and beliefs . Marina Morrow, Research Associate, Mothering Under Duress: An Examination British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health around physical activity and weight loss. BCCEWH. of Canadian Media and Policy Discourses . Colleen Reid, Research Associate, on Mothering and Substance Use, Woman E311 – 4500 Oak Street, Box 48 BCCEWH; Institute for Health Research Screening Issues for Women in Violent Abuse and Mental Illness. Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3N1 and Education, Simon Fraser University. Relationships. . Lorraine Greaves, Executive Director, . Sandra Friedman, Counselor and . Jill Cory, Coordinator, Woman Abuse BCCEWH. CANADA Consultant. Response Program, BC Women’s Health . Marina Morrow, Research Associate, Centre. BCCEWH. Phone: 604 875 2633 Training for staff who work with women . Lynda Dechief, Research Associate, . Lori Irwin, Post Doctoral Fellow/Executive with mental health needs. Woman Abuse Response Program, BC Director, ECD Knowledge Network, WHO. Fax: 604 875 3716 . Jennie Williams, Inequality Agenda Ltd. UK. Women’s Health Centre. . Colleen Varcoe, Associate Professor, Email: [email protected] . Tessa Parks, Inequality Agenda Ltd. UK . Colleen Varcoe, Associate Professor, University of Victoria, School of Nursing. Web: http://www.bccewh.bc.ca University of Victoria, School of Nursing. . Joy Johnson, Professor, Associate Director, The Impact of Trauma on Women’s . Linde Zingaro, Consultant, Educator, Graduate Programs and Research, Experience of Pregnancy, Birth and Feminist Counselor. School of Nursing, University of British Postpartum Adjustment. Columbia. The BCCEWH Team in 2006 . J. Olivia Scalzo, Registered Psychologist. Genetics and the Implications for Women . Nancy Poole, Research Associate, Aurora Ayne, Anna McCullough, Lucy and Women’s Health. Centre & BCCEWH. Linking the Research Question and the . Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Reader in . Ann Pederson, Manager Policy and Battersby, Lupin McDiarmid, Trica Tools You Need: Choosing the Best Methods Sociology, Public Health Sciences and Research, BCCEWH. Bell, Kirsten Moran-Bonilla, Laura for Data Gathering Co-director, Centre for Research on Bowers, Michele Neely, Janet . Sandra Kirby, Professor of Sociology, Families and Relationships, University of A New Study of Women-Centred Care. University of Winnipeg. Edinburgh. . Robin Barnett, Independent Health Cerani, Jorge Patel, Shaista Promotion Consultant. Clark, Katja Pederson, Ann Running the Gauntlet: Girls’ Sport, Bullying Spin the Bottle: Sex, Alcohol, & Advertising. and Initiations. . Jean Kilbourne, International pioneer in Women and Mental Health Panel Claydon, Jennifer Poole, Nancy . Sandra Kirby, Professor of Sociology, alcohol and tobacco advertising and the Discussion. DiNatale, Diana Ramsden, Kristen C C University of Winnipeg. image of women in advertising. . Pat Capponi, Social activist, author & a Dussault, Marie Reid, Colleen leading mental health care advocates. M M Faria, Revelita Richardson, Lindsay Prescription drug dependence as a The Discredited Medical Subject in Health . Sue Penfold, Professor Emeritus in the Y Y “Gateway” to chronic physical or mental Policy and Practice: First Nations Women in Department of Psychiatry, University of Greaves, Lorraine Rose, Leanna health problems and to the overuse of the Northern British Columbia. British Columbia. CM CM Hemsing, Natalie Salmon, Amy health care system. . Annette Browne, Assistant Professor, MY MY . Janet Currie, Director, Focus Consultants, School of Nursing, University of British Guiding Recovery: A women-centred, Horner, Liz Schmidt, Christina CY CY Member, Board of PharmaWatch, and Columbia. trauma-informed model of care for Hoyak, Kristy Segal, Leslie Member, Benzodiazepine Awareness . Jo-Anne Fiske, Professor, Women/Gender substance-using women and their families. CMY CMY Hunt, Rodney Sproule, Kamala Network. Studies and First Nations Studies at the . Norma Finkelstein, Founder and K K University of Northern British Columbia. Executive Director of the Institute Janyst, Pauline Tungohan, Ethel 2003 for Health and Recovery, Cambridge, Jategaonkar, Natasha A Profile of Women’s Health in the South Massachusetts & founder and Executive Urquhart, Cristine Decontextualizing Motherhood: Fraser Region: Indicators and Solutions. Director of the Women's Alcoholism May, Pat Verma, Pamela Experiences of Mothers with Serious . Patricia Janssen, Assistant Professor, Program/CASPAR. Mental Illness and the Response of the Department of Health Care and Professional System. Epidemiology, University of British Reflections on Women’s Health Planning in . Tasnim Nathoo, Dept. of Health Care Columbia. British Columbia. & Epidemiology, University of British . Ann Pederson, Manager Policy and Columbia. Sex and Gender Differences in Chronic Research, BCCEWH. Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. . Robin Barnett, Independent Health Demonstrating Progress: Innovations in . Pat Camp, Senior Research Coordinator, Promotion Consultant. Women’s Mental Health. UBC Respiratory Division PhD student, . Tracee Schmidt, Team Lead, Planning & . Anne Burrill, Executive Director, Women’s UBC Individual Interdisciplinary Studies Performance Measurement, BC Public Contact Society. Program. Service Agency. . Lynda Dechief, Research Associate, . Maria Hudspith, VCHA Coordinator Woman Abuse Response Program, BC The Meaning Of Mental Illness To Youth: of Community Consultations and Women’s Health Centre. Exploring The Psychosocial Effects Of Partnerships-Vancouver. . Nancy Poole, Research Associate, Aurora Mental Illness On Identity And Life Cycle Centre & BCCEWH. Development In Youth Aged 17-24.
42 Still Making Waves We at the Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society at The University of Melbourne were delighted to find academic soul mates at BCCEWH following the visit to our Centre by Dr Lorraine Greaves several years ago. BCCEWH is one of the few Centres worldwide that shares our emphasis on a social model of women’s backcover_page.pdf 1/8/2007 5:53:29 PM health; this makes possible an exchange of ideas and experiences that enhances the work of both Centres. Happily, our Memorandum of Understanding between the Centres is not just a formal document. Our relationship has opened up the potential for exciting Canadian/Australian research synergies which have already been translated into action with exchange visits and plans well underway for collaborative research. BCCEWH is truly a Centre of Excellence and we are proud to be associated with it and to have the opportunity of working with colleagues whose vision of women’s health matches our own.
Doreen Rosenthal, Director & Professor, The Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, University of Melbourne
CCSA values the opportunity of working with the BCCEWH, an acknowledged and passionate leader, in addressing the negative impact of substance abuse and addictions on the health and well-being of women and girls in Canada.
Michel Perron, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse.
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