Hello folks,

Below is the link for the newly released Chief Public Health Officer's
Report on the State of Public Health in Canada 2016: A Focus on Family
Violence in Canada

http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/publications/department-mi
nistere/state-public-health-family-violence-2016-etat-sante-
publique-violence-familiale/index-eng.php?_ga=1.268342926.12
90276798.1469461892

Dr. Gregory Taylor calls the statistics staggering:


   - Every day, just over 230 Canadians are reported as victims of family
   violence.
   - In 2014, 57,835 girls and women were victims of family violence
   accounting for seven out of every10 reported cases.
   - Every four days a woman is killed by a family member.
   - Population surveys tell us that a third of Canadians, that is 9
   million people, have reported experiencing abuse before they were 15 years
   old.
   - About 760,000 Canadians reported experiencing unhealthy spousal
   conflict, abuse or violence in the last five years.
   - In 2014, Indigenous people were murdered at a rate six times higher
   than non-Indigenous Canadians, with Indigenous women being three times more
   likely to report spousal abuse than nonindigenous women.
   - Every day, eight seniors are victims of family violence

Sadly, I am not shocked especially given the new #NiUnaMenos campaign. Even
though there are some challenges with the data, I am pleased that we have
this report to help make a stronger case for gender based approaches in our
work...and a call for action to all levels of government, academia and
civil society.

In case you have not seen here is a link to an excellent resource on Gender
transformative health promotion focusing on improving health outcomes as
well as gender equity.

http://promotinghealthinwomen.ca/

Cheers,

Paola Ardiles

*I acknowledge I work within the ancestral, traditional and unceded
territory of the Coast Salish peoples.*

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