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 What is the WOMEN'S HEALTH COUNCIL?
| Objective: |
During
1999, the Women’s Health Council (WHC) will hold consultation sessions in other
settings around the province. The consultations would invite representatives from the
community to give presentations and would invite the public to bring forward their
priorities for women’s health care and emerging issues to these meetings. |
| Purpose: |
The
purpose of the consultation sessions would be to receive input from a wide range of
individuals and organizations that represent women’s issues. The consultation
sessions will ensure that the WHC is aware of the issues affecting women’s health in
a variety of health care sectors and geographic areas of the province. |
| No.
of Sessions: |
4 |
| Location: |
Northern
Ontario (Sudbury), Eastern Ontario (Ottawa), and Southwestern Ontario (London), Central
Ontario (Toronto). These sites would be chosen
because we have council representation in those locations. |
| Timing: |
1st
Session - June 10th, 1999 in Ottawa
2nd Session - September 9th, 1999 in Sudbury
3rd Session- October 7th, 1999 in Toronto
4th Session - November 12th , 1999 in London |
| Organizations: |
Hospitals
Long Term Care Facilities
Home Care
Community Health Centres
Community Care Access Centers (CCAC)
University/College
District Health Council
Community Groups e.g. United Way
Disease/Survivor Groups
General Consumers
Women’s Groups |
| Contact: |
Women's
Health Council Secretariat
Tel.: (416) 327-8348 |
WOMEN'S HEALTH
COUNCIL
The Council was formally established in December 1998, upon
the recommendation of the Health Services Restructuring Commission. The 15-member council
was announced on December 8, 1998 and the members are drawn from a wide range of experts
in the academic, research, treatment, public and community health sectors, as well as from
the corporate sector.
The Women's Health Council was established by the Minister
of Health to:
- Advise the Minister and key stakeholders on health issues
affecting women;
- Advocate for improvements in women's health in Ontario;
- Promote women's health research, identify gaps and
disseminate information on current research activities;
- Communicate its activities as widely as possible; and
- Provide advice to the Minister of Health on the allocation
of an allocation of $10M for women's health care projects
The Council has, as a first priority, embarked upon a
series of projects focussed at generating good baseline information with respect to
women's health in Ontario. These include projects to develop baseline information on the
status of women's health along a selected group of indicators; a description of services
presently available to women, in order to identify both redundancies and gaps; a review of
what public information is available on women's health with respect to prevention, public
education and aids to decision making; the development of an Objective Structured Clinical
Examination focussed on women's health, and to be used in examinations of medical students
for licensing purposes, as well as additional work intended to identify "best
practices" guidelines, and methods for their dissemination and implementation.
The projects presently underway will inform the advice
intended to be provided to the Minister on the most appropriate methods of expenditure of
the monies intended to further the advice provided to the Minister by the Women's Health
Council.
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