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Breaking Barriers: Helping Health Care Professionals Help Women, A Proposal for the Ministry of Health

Publication type: 
Project Proposal / Grant Application
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Pages: 
6
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This project proposal of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC), proposes to educate health care professionals about women's needs and experiences of birth control and abortion services, in a workshops getting, in order to inform health care professionals about the resources available in the community and to break social stigma around sexuality, birth control, and abortion. The proposal includes a rationale, the project's aims, goals, proposed format, the benefits, and time frame. There is also a preliminary outline of the resource manual (that would be produced alongside the workshops), and a workshop outline.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); women and health; women's health; education; doctors; health promotion; health care; health programs; workshops; awareness raising; gender-based analysis; community-based health; health information dissemination; birth control; abortion access to services; sexuality; community-based services; BC Ministry of Health;

International Women's Day 2002 and women still face barriers to accessing respectful health care

Publication type: 
Media Release
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
2002-03-08
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A press release by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC) on International Women's Day, 2002. The press release concentrates on the disrespect women still receive through the health care system, such a lack of access to services or refusal of care due to disagreements with doctors about treatment options. The press release also briefly describes the work of the Community Health Advocates Project and their patient's rights workshops.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); women and health; women's health; International Women's Day; Community Health Advocates Project; patient's rights; health care services; Vancouver Coastal Health Authority; Vancouver Foundation; alternative treatment; complementary treatment; workshops

Strategies for Change: from women's experience to a plan for action

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
Agency: 
The Women's Research Centre
Sponsor: 
Law Foundation of British Columbia; Legal Services Society of British Columbia
Date: 
1990
Pages: 
90
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This manual "is intended to assist women's groups in deciding what strategy to use when working on a particular issue. It is based on the assumption that how we work for change
Keywords: 
women's organizations; action plan; consultation; education; equity; evaluation; feminist organization; gender-based analysis; inequality; legal system; organizational capacity building; organizing; performance; social justice; solidarity; violence against women; strategy; strategic planning; The Women's Research Centre

Making Connections: A Booklet about women and prescription drugs and alcohol

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
Agency: 
Action on Women's Addictions- Research and Education (AWARE)
Sponsor: 
Community Support program of Canada's Drug Strategy, Health Canada
Date: 
1995
Pages: 
84
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
An education and prevention manual written for women by Action on Women's Addictions- Research and Education (AWARE). The manual makes connections between women's lives and social determinants of health, and women's use of alcohol and prescription drugs. It uses accessible language to address structural and cultural differences between the way that women and men are treated, and the ways that women use alcohol and prescription drugs. The manual also identifies several issues pertaining to women that may affect their use of alcohol or prescription drugs, and resources specific to their needs (i.e.- women with disabilities, women who have suffered from abuse, women with eating disorders, immigrant women, women of colour, lesbian and bisexual women, aging women, women with depression, etc.)
Keywords: 
Action on Women's Addictions- Research and Education (AWARE); addictions; women and substance abuse; women's health; women and health; drug addiction; drugs; drug use; prevention; alcohol; alcohol use; alcoholism; stress; social determinants of health; gender-based analysis; media; women with disabilities; abuse; eating disorders; sexual health; refugees; immigrant women; lesbian; bisexual; pregnancy; menopause; aging; depression

Make a date with your breasts

Publication type: 
Poster
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A poster for a workshop on breast health, presented by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective in celebration of International Women's Day. The poster advertises the workshop's goals to "demystify your breasts," "learn about self-examination and self massage," and "be empowered through knowledge."
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); breast health; International Women's Day; workshop; breast self-exam; empowerment

Vancouver Extraordinary Makeover Event: Hazardous to Women's Health and Equality

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Date: 
2004
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This leaflet was produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC) and handed-out at a demonstration in 2004, protesting the practice of cosmetic surgeons in BC to give away cosmetic surgery as a prize in a contest. The VWHC was critical of the role of medical professionals in perpetuating a sexist, profit-driven practice. They interrogate the use of cosmetic surgery in society (to "fix" women who do not meet a pre-determined beauty standard), as well as the use of cosmetic surgery as advertising in contests like the Vancouver Extraordinary Makeover Event (2004).
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); body image; cosmetic surgery; doctors; College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC; activism; gender-based analysis

By Whose Definition? A Program for Women

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Date: 
1973
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A calendar of events for Fall, 1973, sponsored by the Women's Office Collective at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The brochure offers a brief description of the collective, as well as the events listed in the calendar, such as self-help health groups with the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC), workshops on women's feelings, self-defence workshops for women, women's poetry readings, and women and public speaking workshops. The calendar lists several other events as well, including film screenings and lecture presentations.
Keywords: 
women's organizations; women's movement; Vancouver Women's health Collective (VWHC); University of British Columbia; The Women's Office Collective; feminists; feminist organization; workshop; gender-based analysis; self-help;

Vancouver Women's Health Collective poster

Publication type: 
Poster
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A poster advertising the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). The poster asks: "Tired of being told what to do?", followed by a list of things women are routinely encouraged to change about their bodies, such as "lose 10lbs, Increase your breast size, tighten your buttocks," etc. The poster challenges women to "this year, resolve to take charge of your own health care. learn more about women's health issues at the Vancouver Women's Health Collective."
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); women and health; women's health; self help; education; women's organizations

Cancer in Two Voices: Talk and Book launching by Sandra Butler

Publication type: 
Poster
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A poster for a book launch and talk by Sandra Butler, co-author of the book "Cancer in Two Voices," with Barbara Rosenblum. The event was held at the Justice institute and was a benefit for the Vancouver Women's Health Collective.
Keywords: 
cancer; fundraising; Vancouver Women's Health Collective

The Vancouver Women's Health Collective

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Date: 
1970s
Pages: 
3
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A three-page document describing the model of self-help and patient-education used by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC) in operating their women's self-help clinic, their counselling services, and their self-educational health groups. Analysis of the traditional health system, and it's patient/doctor power imbalance is criticized and a model based on comprehensive, preventative care for women is advocated.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); women and health; women's health; gender-based analysis; prevention; education; self-help; counselling; self-help clinic; health information dissemination; breast self-exams; birth control; abortion; sexuality; health clinic; empowerment; Pap tests; vaginal health; patient's rights; training

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