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Women's Health Online

The Canadian Women’s Health Network (CWHN) announces several new and improved tools to advance networking and information sharing for women’s health.

Canadian Women’s Health Discussion List:

CDN-WOMEN is a new moderated list created to join together and strengthen links among organizations, individuals and groups across Canada involved in women’s health. It will serve as a forum of discussion and debate on current and timely issues affecting women and girls. It is also a place to share information and resources, events, calls for action, and research findings (both biomedical and social research).
Members will be able to post announcements, discuss regulatory issues, ask and answer questions, express opinions, share ideas, post up-coming conferences, events and employment opportunities. As well, the discussion list will provide an opportunity for input on new and emerging issues.

To join:
E-mail cdn-women-admin AT list DOT web DOT net asking to subscribe to listserv, leaving the subject line blank.

CDN-WOMEN does not accept advertisements, product announcements or self-promotional posts from either individuals or organizations working in the pharmaceutical and health products fields.

Women’s Health Database

You can now search our bilingual database of women’s health resources via our website homepage - free of charge! Our database includes over 5800 resources that cover a wide range of topics on women's health and women’s lives, chosen for health consumers, health professionals, researchers, students and activists alike.
When available, you can access full-text online documents, reviews of featured resources, and/or details of where the resources can be obtained (electronic and hard copy). The database also includes over 2400 organizations involved in women’s health, both in Canada and internationally.

We also encourage our members and web site visitors to suggest resources and organizations to include in our growing database.

Women’s Health Thesaurus
A companion to the database is the bilingual women’s health thesaurus, the only one of it’s kind in Canada. A list of over 4000 key words and terms assists the user in obtaining quick and easy access to topics related to women's health and women’s lives.

Both the database and the thesaurus take a broad look at the determinants of women’s health and wellness. Included are resources on those social issues such as poverty and domestic violence that have a direct relationship on a woman’s well-being.

The discussion list, database and thesaurus are among the many tools that the CWHN has developed to further the distribution of information on women’s health. Our website, www.cwhn.ca is Canada’s most popular bilingual women’s health website, and our electronic bulletin, Brigit’s Notes reaches over 3600 subscribers monthly, including key media in Canada and the United States.

We invite health consumers, health professionals, researchers, students, and activists---anyone interested in women’s health -- to visit our website and to send their contributions here.

posted by Netwoman @ 11:10 PM