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Offers health resources on women’s health issues and concerns including conditions and diseases, medical treatments, sexuality, parenting, relationships, breast health, pregnancy, menopause, and family violence and sexual abuse.
The Women's Health Bureau, with the collaboration of a number of other Divisions within Health Canada, has produced a series of Fact Sheets on women's health. Although not an exhaustive list, they do present some of the key health issues for women today.
Source: Health Canada
This section has resources that address women's barriers to good health, like poverty, racism and sexism. You'll also find information that promotes the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health of all women.
Source: Canadian Health Network
Women's Health Matters/Femmes en santé is a bilingual website and virtual meeting place produced and reviewed by women's health experts at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre and the Centre for Research in Women's Health. It provides women of all ages with information, news and research findings on women's health, diseases and lifestyles. The site is organized in six main sections.
Source: Women's Health Matters
The Canadian Women's Health Network is one of Canada's top bilingual sites for women's health information. It is updated regularly to give you easy access to valuable information and resources on women's health, including breaking news, feature articles, an on-line database, and links to other useful sites.
Source: Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN)
The Centres are multi-disciplinary and operate as partnerships among academics, community-based organizations and policymakers. Their major aim is to inform the policy process and narrow the knowledge gap on gender and health determinants.
Source: Health Canada
Specialized pages offering information on crucial health issues affecting women.
Source: Health Canada
Health Canada's Women's Health Strategy has four main objectives: to ensure that policies and programs are responsive to sex and gender differences and to women's health needs, to increase knowledge and understanding of women's health and women's health needs, to support the provision of effective health services to women, and to promote good health through preventive measures and the reduction of risk factors that most imperil the health of women.
Source: Health Canada
This document sets out Health Canada's Women's Health Strategy and the rationale for it.
Source: Health Canada
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