PWHCE staff recently attended the 6th Australian Women's Health Conference, held May 18-21 2010 in Hobart Tasmania. There, our delegates enjoyed an exciting opportunity to share recent work in gender and health planning.

Engendering Regional Health Planning in Manitoba - PowerPoint Presentation by Harpa Isfeld.

This presentation recounted the process, methods, and content developed by the Centre for the delivery of workshops on gender-based analysis to regional health authority staff throughout Manitoba and in parts of Saskatchewan. Successes and challenges in workshop design and delivery were highlighted, including benefits and pitfalls in utilizing health indicator data to illustrate the relevance of gender for health planning.

‘Applying Gender-based Analysis to Population Health Data’; poster delivered at the MCHP 20th Anniversary Conference, March 8-9, 2010.
Prairie Women’s Health joined in the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy’s 20th anniversary conference, which celebrated past achievements and charted future directions in population health research. The event served to highlight the remarkable asset that MCHP’s data repository represents for researchers, as well as health planners and policy makers for whom data and analyses serve as the basis of evidence-based decision making. Prairie Women’s Health featured its work on Gender-based Analysis, as applied to sex-disaggregated administrative data on elderly women’s use of benzodiazepines (a class of sedatives). The poster excerpts one of numerous GBA analyses included in A Profile of Women’s Health in Manitoba, and illustrates the importance of access to sex-disaggregated data, the value added through the application of GBA, and critical information necessary to improve the health of elderly women in Manitoba.

Download poster from event (136KB pdf)