Rural, remote and northern women's health

Table of Contents Executive Summary SECTION A Introduction The origins and purpose of the study SECTION B Understanding Rural and Remote Women’s Health in Canada A brief description of the context: gender, rurality and health in Canada SECTION C Conducting the National Study A description of how this research was conducted SECTION D Annotated Bibliography of the Literature in French A review of Fr [...] Office of Rural Health and the Institute for Its purpose was to combine the knowledge Gender and Health of the Canadian of women living in rural and remote areas of Institutes for Health Research. [...] Actions: • Coordinate the supply of physicians and • Create and support a Centre of other practitioners to ensure a balanced Excellence for Women’s Health that distribution of services and practitioners conducts women’s health policy research well-suited to meeting the needs of in the Yukon, Northwest and Nunavut diverse rural populations. [...] The health and personal stories of hallway medicine and health issues of Canadians who live in rural long waiting lists, and essays and commen- and remote Canada merit special attention taries about the future of universal health because of the geography, history, and care. [...] Towards a New Policy and Research Agenda for the Health of Women in Rural, Northern and Remote Canada The purpose of this study was to combine the Those who live in rural Canada contend knowledge of women living in rural and remote with health care which is less accessible and areas of Canada with that of community which frequently lacks continuity or organizations and researchers to develop a com