Thinking Women and Health Care Reform in Canada

Pat Armstrong is Professor of Sociology at York University and is Principal Investigator of a seven-year interdisciplinary study on re-imagining long-term residential care.Ann Pederson is co-director of the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health.

• Introduction - Pat ArmstrongChapter 1: Theory and Methods for Thinking Women - Beth Jackson Chapter 2: Primary Health Care for Women in Canada - Ann Pederson and Anna LiwanderChapter 3: Assembling the Evidence for Thinking Women - Beth Jackson, Ann Pederson, and Morgan SeeleyChapter 4: Maternity Care, Margaret Haworth-Brockman - Barbara Clow, and Rachel Rapaport BeckChapter 5: Women, Aging, and Residential Long-Term Care - Morgan SeeleyChapter 6: Caring at Home in Canada - Barbara Clow and Kristi KempChapter 7: Women's Work in Health Care - Pat ArmstrongChapter 8: The Mental Health of Women Health Care Workers - Pat ArmstrongChapter 9: Woman-Defined Quality Care - Pat Armstrong, Madeline Boscoe, Barbara Clow, Karen R. Grant, Nancy Guberman, Beth Jackson, Ann Pederson, and Kay WillsonChapter 10: Women and Private Health Insurance - Alison Jenkins Jayman and Kay WillsonChapter 11: Overweight, Obesity, and Health Care - Karen R. GrantChapter 12: An Unfinished Revolution - Pat ArmstrongAppendix: The Charlottetown Declaration on the Right to CareIndex

The topics are timely...the manuscript’s strength is in its thoughtful and careful analysis of the topics it covers. It would seem this strength is derived from the authors’ many years of experience engaged in health care activism, in thinking and in writing about these topics."" - Dr. Lynda Ross, Athabasca University