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The Women's Health Contribution Program (WHCP) is a partnership of community organizations, leading academic researchers, and institutes to support policy research and education on the health needs of women and girls in Canada.
The work of WHCP organizations demonstrates how biological factors (sex) and social and cultural roles (gender) interact with environmental, economic, and other conditions across the lifespan to influence girls’ and women’s health.
Currently, the WHCP supports several organizations through the WHCP:
Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health
The Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (ACEWH) is based in Halifax. This Centre’s program of research, policy analysis, advice and information currently focuses on these areas: gender and HIV/AIDS;
overweight and obesity;
cancer support services;
aboriginal Women and water;
and women's unpaid caregiving.
Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence
The administrative office of Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (PWHCE) is located in Winnipeg. Two other offices are located in Regina and Saskatoon. Currently, the PWHCE focuses its activities on: Aboriginal women's health issues; women, poverty and health; the health of women living in rural, remote and northern communities; and gender in health planning. PWHCE is also involved in a wide variety of other projects with the community of women in the Prairie Provinces.
National Network of Environments and Women’s Health
The National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH) is housed at York University in Toronto, but its members span the country.
NNEWH’s primary research focus is on the impact of the environment on women’s health, but has more recently incorporated the themes of women and health care reform and women and pharmaceuticals, with the inclusion of two working groups (WHCR and WHP).
Women Health Care Reform and Women
Women and Health Care Reform, (formerly the National Coordinating Group on Health Care Reform and Women) came together in 1988 as a collaborative group of the Centres of Excellence for Women’s Health, the Canadian Women’s Health Network and Health Canada’s Bureau of Women’s Health and Gender Analysis. Its mandate is to coordinate research on health care reform and to translate this research into policy and practice. The group investigates the impact of health care reform on women as providers, decision makers and users of the health care system.
Women and Health Protection
Women and Health Protection (WHP) is a national working group of clinicians, community groups, researchers, and activists concerned with the safety of pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices for women. The group keeps a close eye on federal health protection legislation and examines its impact on women’s health.
Aboriginal Women’s Health and Healing Research Group
The Aboriginal Women's Health and Healing Research Group (AWHHRG) is
a national network of First Nations, Métis and Inuit women researchers
interested in community-based research focused on the health and healing of Aboriginal women, their families and communities. The AWHHRG receives financial support from the Women’s Health Contribution Program, Health Canada and has an office at the University of British Columbia.
Canadian Women’s Health Network
The Canadian Women’s Health Network (CWHN) is a network of individuals, groups, organizations and institutions concerned with women’s health. It provides health information and resources and aims to strengthen the women’s health movement throughout Canada. It also provides overall communications support to the Women’s Health Contribution Program
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