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The following links are all pdf documents. To view these publications you will need to download  Adobe Acrobat Reader.
BCCEWH Activity Reports
Still Making Waves, 10 Year Report- 1996-2006 (1.8MB pdf)
Making Waves, 5 Year Report- 1996-2001 (1.8MB pdf)
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Recent publications
Maternal And Infant Health And The Physical Environment of First Nations And Inuit Communities: A Summary Review
R. Stout, T. Dionne Stout & R. Harp, 2009
Click on the cover to download the report (256KB PDF) |
First Nations and Inuit women and infants face challenging health issues in their communities where there are environmental risks. Literature examining these contexts and the processes through which health is affected is relatively limited. The objective of this review is to examine and consolidate the available literature on environmental threats to First Nations and Inuit maternal health in order to identify priorities for future research.
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You and Your Health: A Woman's Guide
Click on the cover to download the report (1.4MB PDF) |
The Guide uses a broad approach to women’s health, which includes healthy living information, disease-specific recommendations and advice, and information concerning the social determinants of health. It includes information on women-specific health concerns as well as the links between women's health and the health of their communities. It has recommendations for ways to improve health and addresses issues that may come up for women at different stages of their lives. The Guide is intended to be an everyday resource, a potential first point of contact for information. |
Further Advancing the Health of Girls and Women: Report on the Women’s Health Strategy for British Columbia 2004-2008
Click on the cover to download the report (2 MB PDF) |
The recently released report is a follow-up document to Advancing the Health of Girls and Women: A Women's Health Strategy for British Columbia (2004). It reports on advancements made in support of the Strategy and those occurring concurrently across the province in the Strategy's three priority areas:
1) Improving Women's Health Monitoring, Surveillance, and Reporting
2) Sustaining Access to Maternity Care
3) Supporting Women-centred Approaches to Mental Health, Problematic Substance Use, and Addictions |
To get a hardcopy copy of the report, please send an email to bccewh@cw.bc.ca with your name, mailing address and the number of copies that you would like.
Other publications of interest related to Further Advancing the Health of Girls and Women:
Advancing the Health of Girls and Women in British Columbia: A Women ’s Health Strategy for British Columbia 2004 (1MB PDF)
Advancing the Health of Girls and Women in British Columbia: A Women ’s Health Strategy for British Columbia 2004 - Summary, 4 pages (456KB PDF)
'Me, I'm Living it" The Primary Health Care Experiences of Women who use Drugs in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (1.3MB pdf)
Prepared by The VANDU Women CARE Team, 2009
Summarizing the findings of The VANDU Women's Clinic Action Research for Empowerment Project (VANDU Women CARE), this report provides insight into the primary health care experiences of women who use illicit drugs in the DTES, and highlights implications for improving health policy and service delivery.
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