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Evidence-Based Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women: 2007 Update

Implementing Systems Change to Improve Womens Health Care:National

Community Centers of Excellence

The CCOE program can be considered a successful model of systems change in health care,

although some of the Centers achieved greater successes in certain aspects of implementing bestpractices. As a whole, CCOEs appear to be a dynamic, flexible initiative that fulfilled their goal of

improving care delivery to a target population of underserved women. The program has begun

addressing issues of sustainability, and it may become a model for other programs if it can sustainthese systems changes for the long term.

Further Advancing the Health of Girls and Women: Report on the Womens Health Strategy

for British Columbia 2004-2008

The recently released report is a follow-up document toAdvancing the Health of Girls and

Women: A Women's Health Strategy for British Columbia (2004). It reports on advancements

made in support of the Strategy and those occurring concurrently across the province in theStrategy's three priority areas:

1) Improving Women's Health Monitoring, Surveillance, and Reporting2) Sustaining Access to Maternity Care

3) Supporting Women-centred Approaches to Mental Health, Problematic Substance Use, andAddictions

Gender & Health Collaborative Curriculum

I n addition to creating learning resources, the project team has focused on identifying the

strategies and tools best suited to curriculum development, particularly for a team separated bygreat distance. We expect these tools to be useful to other individuals and organizations interested

in developing online resources, no matter the focus, and have sought opportunities to collaboratewith others around this.

To establish a teaching approach that integrated a gender perspective, is relevant and made widely

available. There are stand-alone learning modules that focus on gender in specific domains of

medical education, but is also an interactive, evolving base of knowledge that allows educators topick and choose the resources they would like to present to students or integrate into existing

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curriculum. The project is a collaboration the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine part of the

Council of Ontario Universities.

Look for this website to become a working document at Medpedia in the near future.

http://www.genderandhealth.ca/

Queen's University

http://www.collaborativecurriculum.ca/

In 2005, the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health held "Expecting Something Better: AConference to Optimize Maternal Health Care." Recommendations to improve the health of

girls and women beyond pregnancy (Grason PPT)

, disparities during labor and delivery, economic and psychosocial disparities,

morbidity and mortality, and prenatal care.

http://www.genderandhealth.ca/http://www.jiwh.org/attachments/Guendelman.ppthttp://www.jiwh.org/attachments/Braveman.ppthttp://www.jiwh.org/attachments/Berg%20Geller.ppthttp://www.jiwh.org/attachments/Prenatal%20Care.ppthttp://www.genderandhealth.ca/http://www.jiwh.org/attachments/Guendelman.ppthttp://www.jiwh.org/attachments/Braveman.ppthttp://www.jiwh.org/attachments/Berg%20Geller.ppthttp://www.jiwh.org/attachments/Prenatal%20Care.ppt