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Ideas Are Brewing

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Hutchison, Penelope; Lynne, Sandra; Hansen, Lu; Heather, Lorna and Liz; McKay, Raine
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
1995-12
Pages: 
8
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A newsletter produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). This issue includes: Abortion- Sharing Our Stories; Lobby and Networking Action Update: Vancouver Women's Health Collective November, 1995; Books, books, books; Core Women Care- Core Report on Women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside; Core Women Care: Who We Are; The Life Quilt for Breast Cancer; Action through Art: "Our Bodies: Images for a Revolution"; Women's Health Information Network Update; Supporting Action through Art; Announcements and Notices
Keywords: 
women and health; women's health; abortion; pro choice; lobbying; grassroots; BC Women's Hospital; Women's Health Information Network; Community Health Advocate project; Canadian Women's Health Network; breast health; health reform; women's organizations; support groups; group therapy; awareness raising; book review; abuse; research; Downtown Eastside; women and homelessness; advocacy; workshops; breast cancer; empowerment; arts and culture; compulsive eating; eating disorder; menopause; volunteer; volunteerism; counselling

Newsletter: The Holiday Edition

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
1994
Pages: 
4
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A newsletter produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). This issue includes: Information Centre; Fundraising; Administration; Lobby Group; Publications Committee; Artwoman Report; Education and Research Committee; Announcements and Notices
Keywords: 
women's health; women and health; volunteer; volunteerism; training; fundraising; lobbying; advocacy; health care; health information dissemination; birth control; alternate therapy; hysterectomy; smoking; abortion; support groups; fibroids; determinants of health; women and technology; book review

The Women's Health Rag

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
McCandless, Kate; Deringer, Ingrid; Berton, Alexa; Dohlen, Valda; Quok, Winnie
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Series: 
Vol. 1 No. 2
Date: 
1992-06
Pages: 
10
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A newsletter produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). This issue includes: Devaluing Disabled People Through Reproductive Technologies; Caring for Yourself: Healthy Alternatives, headaches and migraines; Women and HIV; Book Reviews: Women's Health and the Environment; In Search of Bedside Manners; The Vancouver Women's Health Collective; Announcements and Notices
Keywords: 
disability; women with disabilities; new reproductive technologies (NRTs); headaches; migraines; women and HIV/AIDS; environmental health; environmental toxins; cancer; doctors; patient's rights; power; inequality; abortion; access to services

The Women's Health Rag

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
McCandless, Kate; Hansen, Lu; Deringer, Ingrid; Berton, Alexa; Vermeulen, Helen; Dohlen, Valda
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
1992
Pages: 
8
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A newsletter produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). This issue includes: M.E. The Invisible Disability; Therapist and Doctor Shopping; Accessing Abortion in BC: What are Our Options?; New books of Note; Caring for Yourself: Healthy Alternatives Premenstrual Syndrome; News Flashes; Announcements and Notices
Keywords: 
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME); women and health; women's health; stress; fatigue; chronic illness; depression; therapist; access to services; abortion; The Everywoman's Health Centre; Elizabeth Bagshaw Women's Clinic; counselling; support services; BC health system; Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS); alternative therapy; herbal; condoms; female condoms

VWHC Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
McCandless, Kate; Hansen, Lu; Deringer, Ingrid; Berton, Alexa; Vermeulen, Helen; Dohlen, Valda; Lynn, Sandra
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
1991
Pages: 
6
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A newsletter produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). This issue includes: The Vancouver Women's Health Information Centre; Medicalization of Women's Lives and Bodies; Book reviews; Caring for Yourself: Healthy Alternatives; Newsflashes; Announcements and Notices
Keywords: 
self help; empowerment; women's organizations; volunteer; health information dissemination; funding cuts; medicalization; doctors; book review; breast health; cancer; alternative therapy; gynaecology; vaginal health; prevention

Healthmatters

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Mintzes, Barbara; Penrowley, Colleen; Saxell, Lee; Thompson, Maggie
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Series: 
Vol. 3 No. 2
Date: 
1987-09
Pages: 
6
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A newsletter produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). This issue includes: Rose's Baby- The Apprehended Fetus; Self-Help for Mothers; The Unpregnancy Pill; Pap Smear Form Changed; Health Shorts; Announcements and Notices
Keywords: 
women and health; women's health; rights; human rights; children; child apprehension; pregnancy; mothers experience; post partum depression; self help; Pacific Post Partum Support Society; depression; RU-486; medical abortion; emergency contraception; abortifacient; Pap smears; DES exposure; BC health system; Dalkon Shield; intra uterine device; book review; AIDS; vaccine; cancer; epilepsy; funding cuts; sterilization

Healthmatters

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Arratoon, Cheryl; Bell, Barbara; Hnatiuk, Daphne; Penrowley, Colleen; Saxell, Lee; Thompson, Joy; Thompson, Maggie
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Series: 
Vol. 3 No. 2
Date: 
1987-06
Pages: 
8
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A newsletter produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). This issue includes: Apprehension of Fetus- Is this the future?; Health Care in Latin America- Where there is no doctor; AIDS- A Woman's Concern; Safer Sex for Women; Adverse Effects- Women and the Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Shorts; Announcements and Notices
Keywords: 
rights; human rights; children; child apprehension; pregnancy; BC Abortion Clinic Coalition; abortion; equality; ethical issues; doctors; Latin America; rural health; primary health care; community health; AIDS; women and health; women's health; risk behaviour; gay men; HIV; sexually transmitted diseases (STDs); AIDS Vancouver; safe sex; injection drug users; HIV prevention; pharmaceutical; DES exposure; Estrogen replacement therapy (ERT); menopause; third world; birth control; The Women's Reproductive Health Project; fertility; infertility; menstruation; miscarriage; women's organizations; workshop; empowerment; facilitation; patients' rights; gender-based analysis; book review

Healthmatters

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Arundel, Megan; Mintzes, Barbara; Penrowley, Colleen; Saxell, Lee; Sexton, Deborah; Thompson, Maggie; Zanda, Antoinette
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Series: 
Vol. 3 No. 1
Date: 
1987-03
Pages: 
8
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A newsletter produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). This issue includes: Abortion West and East; DES Awareness Week; News from the Women's Health Collective; Women's Health Network; Computers and Office Work; Health Shorts; Announcements and Notices
Keywords: 
women and health; women's health; abortion; access to services; DES exposure; DES daughters; workshop; occupational health; VDT related illnesses; video display terminals (VDTs); gender and health; birth control; women immigrants; health care; breast milk; BC Abortion Clinic Coalition

Healthmatters

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Arratoon, Cheryl; Arundell, Megan; Collard, Brie; Hogan, Patricia; Mintzes, Barbara; Penrowley, Colleen; Saxell, Lee; Thompson, Maggie
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Series: 
Vol. 2 No. 5
Date: 
1986-12
Pages: 
6
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A newsletter produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). This issue includes: Midwives Convicted- What's next?; No More Forced Sterilization- Supreme Court Rules; Osteoporosis- New Methods of Diagnosis; Supermarkets- Dangerous Places to Work; Health Shorts; With the Power of Each Breath; Announcements and Notices
Keywords: 
women and health; women's health; midwifery; Gloria Lemay; Mary Sullivan; The Midwives Association of BC; sterilization; osteoporosis; diagnosis; detection; occupational health; women and work; health risks; AIDS; women with disabilities; human rights; rights; book review

Healthmatters

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Mintzes, Barbara; Penrowley, Colleen; Saxell, Lee; Thompson, Maggie; Zanda, Antoinette
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Series: 
Vol. 2 No. 4
Date: 
1986-11
Pages: 
8
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A newsletter produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC). This issue includes: Dalkon Shield Action Canada; Between the Lines: Background to the Dalkon Shield Story; Women Recount their Experiences; At Any Cost- The Dalkon Shield Story; Women's Health Collective: Women's Organize for Change; Lawyers- What to do with them; Medical Records- What you need to know; Health Shorts; Announcements and Notices
Keywords: 
women and health; women's health; Dalkon Shield; birth control; gender-based analysis; pharmaceutical; women's organizations; self help; health risks; doctors; Dalkon Shield Action Canada; women's health movement; rights; legal issues; legal assistance; Intra uterine devices (IUDs); book review

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