Cross Links -- June 2002

Cross Links, a publication for health promotion practitioners, students,
researchers, and policy makers, is available from the Centre for Health
Promotion Studies. It is a forum for expressing views, sharing ideas, and
acknowledging controversies related to health promotion.


Family Violence: A Great Cost to Health

Family violence is an ongoing and insidious problem throughout Canada, with
serious implications for health. Alberta and British Columbia have the
highest rates in the country. Alberta has 35 women's shelters, including
three shelters on reserves, with only 24 receiving partial provincial
government funding. There is an extreme shortage of shelter, and shelters
are turning away incredible numbers of women.   ...read more at
http://www.chps.ualberta.ca/publications/cross_links.htm
<http://www.chps.ualberta.ca/publications/cross_links.htm> .

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