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Saskatchewan comparable health indicators report 2004  
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This report covers 24 different health indicators and focuses on health status, health outcomes and quality of service. Contains  sex- disaggregated data on self-reported health, diabetes, smoking, mortality rates, physical activity, influenza, chlamydia, obesity, and prescription drugs, among others.
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 SASKATCHEWAN
Author Saskatchewan Health
Publication Type Report
Publication Year 2003
Citation Saskatchewan Health. (2003) Global Health Indicators for Regional Health Authorities.  Retrieved from http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/health-indicators-rhas.
Entry last updated March 2010
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A surveillance report of deaths in Saskatchewan Health Authorities  
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This report analyzes selected mortality information on Saskatchewan residents for 1995-1999. Five year average rates for the twenty most frequent causes of death from non-communicable conditions are provided and the data is also broken down by age, sex and region.
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 SASKATCHEWAN
Author William Osei, Sharon Miller
Publication Type Report
Publication Year 2005
Citation Osei ,William & Miller, S. Population Health Branch (2005).  A surveillance report of deaths in Saskatchewan Health Authorities. Retrieved from http://www.publications.gov.sk.ca/details.cfm?p=12071
Entry last updated March 2010
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Health Protection for the 21st Century? A Response to Health Protection Branch Discussion Papers  
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This paper identifies eight inter-related areas of concern regarding the Health Protection Branch Transition: gender equity analysis, setting the agenda, process, conception of health, risk, autonomy, preserving the social fabric, and addressing ethical questions.
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 NATIONAL
Author Sherwin, S.
Publication Type Report
Publication Year 1998
Citation Sherwin, S. Health Protection for the 21st Century? A Response to Health Protection Branch Discussion Papers. Halifax, NS: Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health; 1998.
Entry last updated March 2010
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The Guiding Principles Community Consultations Project  
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One of the first activities of ACEWH, this project established a set of meaningful, practical principles for the conduct of a program of research in women's health through consultations with community-based organizations from the four Atlantic provinces.
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 NOVA SCOTIA
Author Kirkland, S.
Publication Type Report
Publication Year 0
Citation Kirkland, S. The Guiding Principles Community Consultations Project. Halifax, NS: Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health; 2000
Entry last updated March 2010
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Women and Healthcare: A Brief to the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada  
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This brief outlines womens' concerns related to their own health and healthcare, but also their larger concerns because of women's specific relationship to healthcare due to the majority of the unpaid caregiving work women do in families and the voluntary sector and the paid caregiving work women perform within the healthcare system itself.  This paper looks at how gender, inequality, income all affect women's health status
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 NATIONAL
Author Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women
Publication Type Report
Publication Year 2002
Citation Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Women and Healthcare: A Brief to the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. Halifax, Nova Scotia; 2002
Entry last updated March 2010
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Shaping Women’s Health Research: Scope and Methodologies  
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This synthesis paper reviews important issues pertaining to women's health research including question development, project design, ethical reviews, analysis, and presentation and dissemination of results, as well as the possibilities for resulting action and policy changes from such research.
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 NATIONAL
Author Marika Morris
Publication Type Topic Synthesis
Publication Year 1999
Citation Morris, M. Shaping Women's Health: Scope and Methodologies. Halifax, NS: Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women's Health; 1999.
Entry last updated April 2010
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Women's Health Surveillance Report: A Multidimensional Look at the Health of Canadian Women  
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This report provides information and descriptive statistics on determinants of health, health status, and health outcomes for Canadian women. To the extent possible, each chapter presents new, gender-relevant information on a health condition or issue identified as important to women's health during national expert and stakeholder consultations in 1999. Where data or appropriate data are lacking, this is documented. Recommendations for change are made at the end of each chapter, accompanied by a discussion of the gaps in and policy implications of the findings.
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 NATIONAL
Author Health Canada, CIHI
Publication Type Literature Review
Publication Year 2003
Citation CIHI. Women's Health Surveillance Report: A Multidimensional Look at the Health of Canadian Women. Ottawa: Health Canada, 2003
Entry last updated February 2009
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Aboriginal Women’s Health Research Synthesis Project Final Report  
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This report is divided into four sections: 1) an overview of key health and health-related indicators for Aboriginal women in Canada; 2) a critical review and synthesis of research and other initiatives on Aboriginal women’s health undertaken or funded by the Centres of Excellence for Women’s; 3) proceedings of the National Workshop on Aboriginal Women’s Health Research; and 4) recommendations to serve as the basis for priority-setting in future Aboriginal women’s health research activities. 
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 NATIONAL
Author Madeline Stout, Gregory Kipling, Roberta Stout
Publication Type Research Synthesis
Publication Year 2001
Citation Stout, M. Aboriginal Women’s Health Research Synthesis Project Final Report. Ottawa: Health Canada, 2001
Entry last updated February 2009
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Chronic Pain: The Extra Burden on Canadian Women  
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Results for this report on chronic pain are based on data from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Cycle 1.1 (2000-2001). Epidemiologic, clinical and experimental studies have  consistently found that the burden of pain is greater for women than for men.
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 NATIONAL
Author Marta Meana, Robert Cho, Marie DesMeules
Publication Type Topic Synthesis
Publication Year 2003
Citation "Chronic Pain: The Extra Burden on Canadian Women." Women's Health Surveillance Report: A Multidimensional Look at the Health of Canadian Women. Ottawa: Health Canada, 2003
Entry last updated February 2009
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Funding for this project was provided by Health Canada - Bureau of Women's Health and Gender Analysis. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official views of Health Canada.