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Say No to Violence Against Women Join UNIFEM and take action

The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women is a day commemorated in Canada each December 6, the anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique Massacre, in which 14 women were singled out for their gender and murdered. It is often marked by vigils, discussions and other reflections on violence against women.

Canadian flags on all federal buildings, including the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, are flown at half-mast on December 6. In addition, Canadians are encouraged to observe a minute of silence on December 6 and to wear a white ribbon (or a purple ribbon) as a commitment to end violence against women.

FMWC members can start or join an action to educate through Unifem

Please see their website for details: www.saynotoviolence.org

WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health

Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health-2008 report

Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.

click here for WHO report

Women Who Care

WOMEN WHO CARE is a collection of thirty-two women¹s stories about caring. Through prose and poetry, our book captures the personal and professional values and expectations of women caregivers at each stage in their lives and careers. It examines women¹s experiences as the providers and recipients of health care. Several contributors are FMWC members. To order your copy, please go to:

Women Who Care website

Wonca Working Party on Women and Family Medicine

WWPWFM was given the responsibility for developing recommendations on how to achieve and maintain gender equity within the World Organization of Family Doctors.

Click here for the WWPWFM HER statement.

Gender Specific Medicine

This manual on how to integrate gender into medical education programs is part of the Gender and Curriculum Project in Ontario, Canada. Please feel free to view and share . Click here to read more.

There is also a Training Manual for Gender Mainstreaming in Health developed by the MWIA and which Dr. May Cohen (FMWC member) was instrumental in having produced. Click here to read more.

The training manual for Adolescent Sexuality written by Dr. May Cohen and compiled by Dr. Shelley Ross for the Medical Women's International Association is available. Click here to read more.

The Power Study

POWER is a multi-year project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The latest information on women’s health and health care in Ontario will be analyzed. The women’s health report card will serve as an evidence-based tool for policy makers, providers, and consumers in their efforts to improve health and reduce inequities among Ontario women. It focuses on the leading causes of illness and death among women, such as cancer, heart disease, depression, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, and reproductive health. In addition, it will report on the overall health of Ontario women, women’s access to health care services, and the social determinants of women’s health.

The project for an Ontario women’s health evidence based report card (POWER) is developing explicit methods for assessing equity as a routine part of performance measurement (www.powerstudy.ca). The principal investigator of the POWER study is Dr Arlene Bierman from St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto.

WHAT'S NEW
	Creating Climate Change for the Medical Workplace CLICK http://www.cwhn.ca/en TO GO TO CWHN WEBINAR Presenters: Janet Dollin MDCM, CCFP, FCFP Kathleen Gartke, MD, FRCSC Barbara Lent MD, CCFP, FCFP Cheryl Levitt MBBCh, CCFP, FCFP The current reality of Canadian physician demographics will require men and women to collaborate to optimize clinical care through innovative ways of organizing clinical work and academic responsibilities. Presenters will look at international data in context with what we have learned in Canada to ensure healthy medical workplaces, to improve gender equity in the ranks and within leadership, and to build family-friendly workplaces within our institutions. The goal is for webinar participants to discover the relevance of these international reports to Canada and to their own workplace, reflect on evolving attitudinal shifts, gain deeper understanding across generations and consider possible individual and institutional responses to the issues raised. New HPV Prevention Vaccine for Males The Federation of Medical Women of Canada (FMWC) applauds Health Canada for approving GARDASIL for boys and men for the prevention of HPV infection, the most common sexually transmitted infection in Canada. Men play an important role in the transmission of HPV to their sexual partners who, as a result, can develop HPV-related ano-genital cancers and genital warts. Previously, girls and women age 9 to 26 have been approved to receive this vaccine. The FMWC believes that decreasing the risk of HPV infection in men through vaccination will provide additional public health benefit by decreasing the risk of infection to their sexual partners.

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