Publications

Ancillary Health Care Work
Evidence about Health and Health Care
Health Care Reform and Women
Home Care
Long-term Care
Maternity Care
Primary Health Care
Primary Health Insurance
Privatization
Quality of Health Care
Timely Access to Care
Gender and Mental Health of Women Health Care Workers
Private Health Insurance

Ancillary Health Care Work

  • Critical to Care: Women and Ancillary Work in Health Care, 2006.  View document
  • Issues Facing Ancillary Workers in Healthcare in The United Kingdom, 2006.  View document
  • Living and Working: Issues for Women in Ancillary Work, 2006.  View document
  • Hidden Health Care. Women and Work (Part of our series on Health Care Refom and Women.) View document  French version
Publications available from other sources.
  • Armstrong, P., H. Armstrong, and K. Scott Dixon (2006). Who counts as a health care worker? Network, 8 (3/4): 12-13.
  • Armstrong, P. & K. Laxer (2006). “Mapping precariousness in the Canadian health industry: Privatization, Ancillary work and women’s health”. In L. Vosko (ed.). Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada (pp. 115-138). McGill-Queens University Press.


Evidence about Health and Health Care

  • Bringing Women and Gender into "Healthy Canadians: A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators 2004", 2006.  View document
  • Just the facts, ma’am… A Women’s Guide for Understanding Evidence about Health and Health Care, 2005.  View document
  • GBA: Beyond the Red Queen Syndrome, 2002.  View document
  • Is There a Method to This Madness: Studying Health Care Reform as If Women Mattered, 2000.  View document
Publications available from other sources.
  • Jackson, B. E., and M. J. Haworth-Brockman. 2007. The quality of evidence: enhancing uptake of qualitative evidence for gender equity and health. Int. J. Public Health 52 (2007): 265-266.
  • Jackson, B.E. (2003). Situating epidemiology. Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine: Key Themes. Advances in Gender Research Series. Volume 7. Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos and Jennie Kronenfeld (eds.) Greenwich, CN: JAI Press.


Health Care Reform and Women

  • Presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, Wednesday, May 9, 2001, Pat Armstrong
  • Public Consultations of the Commission on the Future of Health Care (Romanow Commission): Speaking Notes from Chair, National Coordinating Group on Health Care Reform and Women, Centres of Excellence for Women's Health Program, 2002  View document
  • Reading Romanow: The Implications of the Final Report of The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada for Women, 2003.  View document
  • Women and Health Care Reform, 2000, Revised 2002.  View document
  • Exposing Privatization: Women and Health Care Reform in Canada, 2002.  Go to publishers website.
Publications available from other sources.
  • Armstrong, P., M. Boscoe, Clow, B., Grant, K., Pederson, A, Willson, K., with Hankivsky, O., Jackson, B., and Morrow, M., (2003). "Responding to Romanow." Network 5/6 (4/1): 10-12.
  • Armstrong, P. (2002). A Women’s Guide to Health Care Debates. Network, 5 (2/3):.
  • Armstrong, P. (2001). Evidence-Based Health Care Reform: Women's Issues. Unhealthy Times. P. Armstrong, H. Armstrong and D. Coburn. Toronto, Oxford University Press: 121-145.
  • Armstrong, P. (2001). Women and Health: Challenges and Changes. Feminist Issues: Race, Class and Sexuality. Nancy Mandell. Scarborough, Prentice-Hall: 249-266.
  • Armstrong, P. (2000). Engaging the state? Framing feminist politics in an era of state-led “reform”. In Miller, F., Weir, L., Mykitiuk, P. L., Sherwin, S., & S. Tudiver (Eds.),The Gender of Genetic Futures: The Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Women and Health, Proceedings of a National Strategic Workshop. Toronto: York University.
  • Armstrong, P., K. Grant, J. Bernier, A. Pederson, K. Willson, C. Amaratunga and M. Boscoe (2001). "Privatization and Women's Health in Canada: Tracking the Effects of Health Care Reform." Research Bulletin of the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health Program 1(2): 4-5.
  • Jackson, B. E., with the Social Determinants of Health Committee, ORHPP: A. Daley, D. Moore, N. Mule, L. Ross, A. Travers, and E. Montgomery (2006). Whose Public Health? An Intersectional Approach to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and the Development of Public Health Goals for Canada. Social Determinants of Health Stream, Ontario Rainbow Health Partnership Project. Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights Ontario/Rainbow Health Network. Toronto.
  • Jackson, B. E. (2006). What are Social Determinants of Health for LGBTTTIQ People? Produced with the Social Determinants of Health Committee, Ontario Rainbow Health Partnerships Project.
  • Payne, B. J., K. R. Grant and D. M. Gregory (2001). Women's Caring Work in the Context of Manitoba Health Reform. Toronto, National Network on Environments and Women's Health.
  • Payne, B. J., K. R. Grant, C. Christian and D. M. Gregory (2002). "Blurring the Boundaries: Women’s Caring Work and Manitoba Health Care Reform." Research Bulletin of the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health Program 3(1): 11-13. Pederson, A. (2002). ""Who Cares?" (Editorial)." Centres of Excellence for Women's Health Research Bulletin 3(1): 1 & 3.


Home Care

  • Caring for/Caring About: Women, Home Care, and Unpaid Caregiving, 2004.  Go to publishers website.
  • Women and Home Care: Why Does Home Care Matter to Women? 2002.  View document
  • Charlottetown Declaration on the Right to Care, 2002.  View document
  • Gender-sensitive Home and Community Care and Caregiving Research: A Synthesis Paper, 2001.  View document
  • Home Care and Women: An Annotated Bibliography of CEWHP Home Care Documents, 2001.  View document
  • The Objective Is Care: Proceedings Of The National Think Tank On Gender And Unpaid Caregiving, November 8-10, 2001, 2001.  View document
  • One Hundred Years of Caregiving, 2001.  View document
Publications available from other sources.
  • Armstrong, P. (2002). "Thinking it Through: Women, Work and Caring in the New Millennium." Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme 21/22 (4/1 Spring/Summer): 44-50.
  • Armstrong, P. (2002). The Evidence is in… It’s Time to Act on Home Care. Network, 5 (2/3):3-4.


Long-term Care

  • An Overview of Long-term Care in Canada and Selected Provinces and Territories, 2007
  • Challenging Questions Designing Long-term Facility Care with Women in Mind, 2007


Maternity Care

  • Maternity Matters: Why should we be concerned about the state of maternity care? 2007


Primary Health Care

  • Primary Health Care Reform and Women, 2005.  View document
  • Dare to Dream: Reflections on a National Workshop on Women and Primary Health Care, 2004.  View document
  • Women and Primary Health Care Reform: A Discussion Paper, 2004.  View document
  • Advancing Primary Care: Models of Women Centered Care in Canada, 2004.  View MS PowerPoint Slideshow
  • Primary [Health] Care and Women: An Annotated Bibliography, 2001.  View document

Publications available from other sources.
  • Pederson, A., & L.Donner. (2007). Beyond Vessels and Vectors: Women and Primary Health Care Reform in Canada. Pan American Journal of Public Health, 21, 2/3: 145-154.


Private Health Insurance

  • Women and Private Health Insurance: A Review of the Issues, 2007


Privatization

  • Exposing Privatization: Women and Health Care Reform in Canada, 2002
  • Health Care Restructuring and Privatization from Women's Perspective in Newfoundland and Labrador, 2000.  View document
  • Missing Links: The Effects of Health Care Privatization on Women in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 2000.  View document
  • The Price of Health Care Reform for Women: The Case of Quebec, 2000.  View document
  • Privatization and Health Care Reform in Canada: Analytic Glossary, 1999.  View document
  • Reformed or Rerouted? Women and Change in the Health Care System, 1999.  View document
Publications available from other sources.
  • Armstrong, P. (February 2006). “Comparing Public and Private Health Care.” CCPA Monitor (available at www.policyalternatives.ca).
  • Armstrong, P. (2004). Health reform: Cutting costs at patients’ and workers’ expense. Hospitals need to heed the lessons of Florence Nightingale. Network, 7 (2/3): 22-23.
  • Grant, K. R., B. J. Payne and D. M. Gregory (2001). Manitoba Health Care Reform: Perceptions and Experiences among Winnipeggers, 1998 and 2001. Toronto, National Network on Environments and Women's Health.
  • Payne, B. J., K. R. Grant and D. M. Gregory (2001). Women's Caring Work in the Context of Manitoba Health Reform. Toronto, National Network on Environments and Women's Health.


Quality of Health Care

Publications available from other sources.
  • Armstrong, Pat, Boscoe, Madeline, Clow, Barbara, Grant, Karen R., Guberman, Nancy, Haworth-Brockman, Margaret, Jackson, Beth E, Pederson, Ann, Seeley, Morgan, and Willson, Kay, “It’s About Time: Women Defined Quality Care.” Under review, Time and Society.
  • Grant, Karen R., Armstrong, Pat, Jackson, Beth E., Boscoe, Madeline, Clow, Barbara, Guberman, Nancy, Haworth-Brockman, Margaret, Pederson, Ann, Seeley, Morgan, and Willson, Kay, “Women’s Perspectives on Quality Health Care: A View from Canada.” Under review, Health Care for Women International.
  • Grant, Karen R., Armstrong, Pat, Boscoe, Madeline, Clow, Barbara, Guberman, Nancy, Haworth-Brockman, Margaret, Jackson, Beth E, Pederson, Ann, Seeley, Morgan, and Willson, Kay, “Five Minutes with the Minister: What Women Want in Health Care.” Under review, Women Who Care: Reflections on Women’s Personal & Professional Experiences of the Canadian Health Care System. Nili Kaplan-Myrth (Ed). Toronto: Second Story Press.
  • Jackson, B., A. Pederson, P. Armstrong, M. Boscoe, B. Clow, K. R. Grant, N. Guberman & K. Willson (2006). “Quality care is like a carton of eggs: Using a gender-based analysis to access quality of health care” In A. Medovarski & B. Cranney (Eds.) Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader, 2006 Edition (pp. 527-539). Toronto: Ianna Publications and Education Inc.
  • Jackson, B.E., A. Pederson, P. Armstrong, M. Boscoe, B. Clow, K. Grant, N. Guberman, & K. Willson (2005). “Quality Care is Like a Carton of Eggs”: Using a Gender-Based Diversity Analysis to Assess Quality Health Care.” Canadian Woman Studies, 24(1), 15-22.


Timely Access to Care

  • Women and Timely Access to Care, 2008
  • Gender-based Analysis and Wait Times: New Questions, New Knowledge, 2006  View document
  • Women and Wait Times (Part of our series on Health Care Refom and Women.) View document (pdf)
  • LES FEMMES et les temps d’attente. View document (pdf)
Publications available from other sources.
  • Jackson, B., Pederson, A., & M. Boscoe (2006). Thinking about gender and wait times. Network, 9 (1/2): 13- 14.


Gender and Mental Health of Women Health Care Workers

  • Annotated Bibliography on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers View Document


Private Health Insurance



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