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Redefining Policy Making Taking Action to Influence Policy Policy for Rural Women
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Making Waves
The British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health has produced a report on its first five years of activity. Making Waves describes key strategies and results of knowledge generation and knowledge uptake employed by the Centre to date. Released in April 2001, Making Waves illustrates the productive partnerships of a wide range of academic and community researchers. Over one hundred projects have been completed on subjects ranging from the implementation of midwifery in British Columbia to the health benefits of physical activity to the mid-life health needs of women with disabilities. The report also describes the ripple effects of several projects, from securing program funding to encourage girls’ participation in community recreation in the Burnside-Gorge area of Victoria, to the formation of a Gender and Health Institute in the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, to the development of gendered approaches to economic costing. Looking ahead, the unique location of the Centre at Women’s and Children’s Health Centre of British Columbia, an arrangement that brings the social sciences to the bedside, will continue to provide opportunities for researchers, policy makers, program developers and health care providers to link their work directly to the health concerns of Canadian girls and women. For a copy of Making Waves, |
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