The POWER Study (Project for an Ontario Women’s Health Evidence-based Report) is producing a Women’s Health Report to serve as an evidence-based tool for policy makers, providers, and consumers in their efforts to improve health and reduce health inequities among Ontario women.
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Access Alliance-Photo Voice project
Access Alliance celebrates their 20 year anniversary with a photo exhibit: Many Faces, One People: view the world through our lens.
Day two of SOCAP09: Intersection of money, meaning and message
Day two of SOCAP09 was filled with plenaries, workshops and lots of wonderful, often serendipitous encounters with people doing amazing work in United States and around the world. (I am recovering from a bad cold, and managed to avoid going ‘viral’ on my fellow attendees in San Francisco). Full details about SOCAP09, including video and […]
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Day one of SOCAP09: Putting money to work for good, not just for greed
Putting money to work for social good, not just personal greed – that’s the overall theme at SOCAP09, the second annual social capital markets gathering that has drawn about one thousand people to San Fancisco. There are all sorts of way to connect into SOCAP09 , including the web site, Twitter feeds, video links and […]
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Social finance 101: Canada Day at SOCAP09
How to get money and other resources into the hands of vital community services (affordable housing, health and community services, and so on) to enable them to get their good work done… that’s the big challenge addressed during Canada Day at SOCAP09 (the annual Social Capital Markets conference that draws hundreds of leading social entrepreneurs […]
A Critical Element of U.S. Health Care Reform That is Being Ignored
With round-the-clock coverage of U.S. health care reform and thousands of journalists, commentators, “experts” and bloggers who dissect every word that key policymakers say or write about the issue, it is amazing that any part of the proposed reforms could be ignored altogether. But that is indeed what has happened with a key element of […]
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New report shows that income and age are important factors for cancer care for women
Today marked the release of the POWER Study Cancer Chapter, part of a provincial Report on women's health which can be used as an evidence-based tool to help policy-makers, health care providers and consumers improve the health of, and reducing inequities among the women of Ontario. The main findings is that income matters when it […]
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Can't find a home? Discrimination in housing fueled by recession
The Ontario Human Rights Commission has released its latest annual report, with a strong focus on discrimination in housing. While everyone is affected by the current recession, not everyone is affected equally. Even before the recession, discrimination in housing was being fueled by a province-wide affordable housing crisis, and all indications are that the problems […]
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Not much of a national housing summit today without the feds at the table…
The federal decision to boycott today’s national housing summit in St Johns, NL (the second time in two years that the federal housing minister has refused to meet with provincial and territorial counterparts) left the remaining summiteers without much to say or do. There is an urgent need for housing ministers to complete the process […]
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Engaging the Community in HIA
The Wellesley Institute promotes community engagement in various areas, as it is essential for effective reform of public policy. It is crucial that community engagement reflect the diversity of the population, including marginalized groups. HIA could benefit enormously from a community engagement component since the purpose of HIA is to consider how policies and programs […]