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Health Health Archives
Plan Explores Barriers to Women's Health Care
By gail johnson

Publish Date: 2-Dec-2004

Researchers are finally tuning in to the fact that there's much more than
anatomy when it comes to differences in men and women's health. In fact,
many illnesses affect the sexes in distinct ways. Only recently have
scientists determined that heart attacks in women, for instance, are rarely
characterized by chest pain, as they are in men. The need for better
monitoring and surveillance of women's health issues in this province is
just one area that has been deemed a priority by two local health
organizations.

B.C. Women's Hospital and Health Centre and the British Columbia Centre of
Excellence for Women's Health recently launched a 10-year plan to address
female-specific care. Titled Advancing the Health of Girls and Women: A
Women's Health Strategy for British Columbia, the paper also singled out
improved access to maternity care and help for mental illness and addiction
as urgent issues.   SNIP

Regardless of the Liberals' plans, there's no denying the persistent and
prevalent social determinants of women's health. According to the health
strategy, 83 percent of all one-parent families in Canada in 1996 were
headed by women, and in B.C. almost nine out of 10 single parents are
women. Statistics Canada found that in 2001, the average after-tax income
for female single-parent families was $31,208, compared with $39,880 for
male ones.  SNIP

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