Evidence-Based Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women: 2007 Update

Implementing Systems Change to Improve Women’s Health Care: National

Community Centers of Excellence

The CCOE program can be considered a successful model of systems change in health care,
although some of the Centers achieved greater successes in certain aspects of implementing best
practices. As a whole, CCOEs appear to be a dynamic, flexible initiative that fulfilled their goal
of improving care delivery to a target population of underserved women. The program has begun
addressing issues of sustainability, and it may become a model for other programs if it can
sustain these systems changes for the long term.

Further Advancing the Health of Girls and Women: Report on the Women’s Health
Strategy for British Columbia 2004-2008

The recently released report is a follow-up document to Advancing the Health of Girls and
Women: A Women's Health Strategy for British Columbia (2004). It reports on advancements
made in support of the Strategy and those occurring concurrently across the province in the
Strategy's three priority areas:
1) Improving Women's Health Monitoring, Surveillance, and Reporting
2) Sustaining Access to Maternity Care
3) Supporting Women-centred Approaches to Mental Health, Problematic Substance Use, and
Addictions

Gender & Health Collaborative Curriculum

I n addition to creating learning resources, the project team has focused on identifying the
strategies and tools best suited to curriculum development, particularly for a team separated by
great distance. We expect these tools to be useful to other individuals and organizations
interested in developing online resources, no matter the focus, and have sought opportunities to
collaborate with others around this.

To establish a teaching approach that integrated a gender perspective, is relevant and made
widely available. There are stand-alone learning modules that focus on gender in specific
domains of medical education, but is also an interactive, evolving base of knowledge that allows
educators to pick and choose the resources they would like to present to students or integrate into
existing curriculum. The project is a collaboration the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine
part of the Council of Ontario Universities.

Look for this website to become a working document at Medpedia in the near future.

http://www.genderandhealth.ca/

Queen's University
http://www.collaborativecurriculum.ca/

In 2005, the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health held "Expecting Something Better: A
Conference to Optimize Maternal Health Care." Recommendations to improve the health of
girls and women beyond pregnancy (Grason PPT)

, disparities during labor and delivery, economic and psychosocial disparities,

morbidity and mortality, and prenatal care.