Canadian Women's Health Network magazine Spring/Summer issue available

The Spring/Summer 2008 issue of the Canadian Women's Health Network magazine Network is available online. Articles include:

Editor's Note

Feeling the heat: Women's health in a changing climate

Evidence for caution: Women and statin use

The HPV vaccine, one year later

Charter challenge on drugs ads: A challenge in the wrong direction

Labels, laws and access to health care: How history affects health-care access for First Nations and Métis women

Cherchez la femme in minority francophone communities

Barbara Seaman (1935-2008): Pioneer in the women's health movement

Status positive: Supporting women immigrants and refugees with HIV/AIDS

'Women CARE' in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Highs & lows: Canadian perspectives on women and substance use

To read individual article or to download the complete issue in PDF format, visit:
http://www.cwhn.ca/network-reseau/index.html

Canadian Women's Health Network magazine

Network magazine
Fall/Winter 2007 - Volume 10, Number 1 available online

Feature articles include:

Editor's note by Kathleen O'Grady - The HPV vaccination debate rages on

Women, gender and mental health

Long-term care homes legislation: Lessons from Ontario

"What Older Women Want"

Timely access to care

Women's equality has come a long way and we're not finished yet

Women and private health insurance

Winning the war on cancer

Infant feeding experiences of women survivors of childhood sexual abuse

One woman's experience with early harm reduction programs in BC

New medications target menstrual suppression for healthy women and girls

When a young woman has a stroke

-- and much more!

Full PDF of Network:
Fall/Winter 2007 - Volume 10, Number 1

Get a free copy of Fall/Winter "Network" magazine

Time sensitive!

~~Free issue offer~~
Network magazine, Fall/Winter 2007 issue is now available!
Contact the Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN) if you'd like to receive a ONE TIME free issue of Network magazine, the official publication of the CWHN. Please send your name and full mailing address, including postal code to:cwhn@cwhn.ca (or write to the address below).
This offer is open only to Canadian residents. Those with an Overseas or US address who wish to receive a ONE TIME free copy of Network must submit the postage costs in advance: $10 USD for shipping and handling for US residents and $15 USD for international residents, sent to Canadian Women's Health Network, Suite 203, 419 Graham Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3C 0M3 Canada.

Network Fall/Winter 2007 issue includes the following articles:
*Women, gender and mental health
*Long-term care homes legislation: Lessons from Ontario
*“What Older Women Want”
*Timely access to care
*Women’s equality has come a long way and we’re not finished yet
*Women and private health insurance
*Winning the war on cancer
*How “Mad Cow” disease affects farm families and communities across Canada
*Infant feeding experiences of women survivors of childhood sexual abuse
*One woman’s experience with early harm-reduction programs in BC
*New medications target menstrual suppression for healthy women and girls
*When a young woman has a stroke
--and much more.

Human Rights for People with Mental Illness

Realizing Our Potential: A Symposium on Human Rights for People with Mental Illness was sponsored by Stenberg College and Coast Mental Health Foundation and held on January 29, 2007 in Surrey, BC.

You can view the complete webcast or download the magazine called Realizing Our Potential which was inspired by the event at:
http://www.realizinghumanpotential.com/overview.html