INVITATION FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
"Working Together on Women's Health Research" (working title)

You are invited to contribute to an exciting new venture in women's
health research.  We are producing a handbook that will help
researchers to partner with others in the community, universities,
and health services to facilitate research on women's health.  The
handbook will build on the document General Guidelines for Health
Promotion Research Proposals, produced by the Atlantic Health
Promotion Research Centre in 1995.

We are inviting contributions of two types:
1) one of five major sections of the handbook; and
Deadline for Submission of cover letter, resume and overview:
July 31st, 1998

2)  short contributions on experiences, insights, stories, personal
accounts, and lessons learned from women's health research.  These
may take any publishable form, e.g. illustrations, poems, stories.
Deadline for Submissions: August 31st, 1998.

PURPOSE: To support women's health research in Canada through a
plain language handbook that explores what research means to
different people and in different contexts, with special reference to
social diversity and social marginalization.

GOALS:
-  bring together and share the knowledge and lived experience of
people;
-  encourage research approach through which skills and
partnerships can be built and shaped;
-  facilitate access to research funds through sharing of knowledge
sources and skills;
-  identify and address gaps in current research methods on women's
health.

 These goals will be accomplished through an exploration of the
 factors (e.g. social, cultural, economic) that affect women's health
 research.  Personal accounts and insights will be used to illustrate
 the challenges and promises of women's health research.  Both
 community & academic perspectives will be presented in each section
 of the handbook.

We encourage applications from women, aboriginal peoples, visible
minorities and people with disabilities.

Sponsored by the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC),
the Community Health Promotion Network Atlantic (CHPNA), and the
Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (MCEWH).

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Attachments:  files of this invitation in:
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For more information please contact:
Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre
Room 5200, Dentistry Building, 5981 University Avenue
Halifax, NS   B3H 3J5
Phone: (902) 494-2240;
Fax: (902) 494-3594
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