What is Health Canada’s Women’s Health Strategy?
In February 2005, CWHN published Women’s Health in Canada: Beijing and Beyond, written by Olena Hankivsky, reviewing Canada’s commitment to the Beijing Platform of Action, through a Health Canada’s Women’s Health Strategy lens. Our assessment concentrates on four areas: Gender-Based Analysis, Health Services, Prevention Programs, and Research and Evaluation, which reflect the key objectives of Health Canada’s Women’s Health Strategy, to determine the progress that the Canadian government has made in advancing women’s health. Health Canada’s Women’s Health Strategy is a framework to guide Health Canada in fully integrating Gender-Based Analysis (GBA) in departmental programs and policies. This initiative arises from Canada’s international and national commitments to gender equality. Adopted in 1999, the overarching goal of the Strategy is to improve the health of women in Canada by enhancing the responsiveness of our health system to women and women’s health needs. The four objectives o
