Rural women's health workshop

Some of the women had participated in focus groups held in Young and in Yorkton with rural and farm women conducted as part of the research for the Rural, Remote and Northern Women’s Health Report. [...] The study was funded by the Women’s Health Bureau of Health Canada with assistance from the Office of Rural Health (Health Canada) and the Institute for Gender and Health of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. [...] DEFINE HEALTH POLICY AS MORE THAN HEALTH CARE SERVICES Action #3 from Report Invest in women’s health and community health through the Rural Health Access Fund and other sources to provide stable, longer term operational funding for community-based organizations to catalyse women’s engagement in and coordination of economic, political and social services in rural, remote and northern communities. [...] In the discussion the group was looking for the most effective way to promote the recommendations of the Rural, Remote and Northern Women’s Health Report and address health issues of women in Saskatchewan. [...] Continue to insist on action with the Report as the basis to justify the action.” And the need for a group to carry forward the action was identified.