| NB Women's News - August 22, 2006 |
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NB Women's News - August 22, 2006 (Défilez vers le bas pour la version française) YET SOME WOMEN DIE EACH YEAR ... Since the late 1990s, the provincial rate for Pap tests has been better than the Canadian average, but regional disparities persist: only 65% of women in the Campbellton health region and 68% of women in the Edmundston region had a Pap test in the previous 3 years, versus a provincial average of 77%. The Canadian average is 73%. The Pap test can detect cervical cancer and pre-cancerous conditions. Treatment of this common and very preventable cancer is highly successful. Yet some N.B. women still die each year from it. Percentage of women "who had a Pap smear within last 3 years" 2005: 77% (Canada 73%) 2003: 78% (Canada 74%) 1998/99: 79% (Canada 76%) 1994/95: 68% (Canada 72%) By health region, 2005 Fredericton: 84% (2003: 81%) Miramichi: 78% (2003: 75%) Saint John: 77% (2003: 80%) Moncton: 75% (2003: 82%) Bathurst: 73% (2003: 77%) Edmundston: 68% (2003: 67%) Campbellton: 65% (2003: 63%) Deaths from cervical cancer, by health region, over 5 years (2000 to 2004) Moncton, 11; Saint John, 14; Fredericton, 15; Edmundston, 5; Campbellton, 1; Bathurst, 9; Miramichi, 2. - Statistics from StatsCan, CANSIM Table 105-4042, Health Indicators, May 02, June 04, June 06; and N.B. Department of Health and Wellness, Vital Statistics, Annual Reports, 1998, 2003 & 2004. ******* NB Women's News******* NOTICES, EVENTS Freebies offered by the federal government to non-profit groups: Get free surplus computers, printers, etc from Industry Canada. Have access to the government rate on business trips in 400 hotels in Canada. Use Termium software to find the right word in either language to translate your text. Get help with translation costs (case by case basis). Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Attention Federal Grant Applicants: "We want to hear from grant applicants, officials and individuals interested in helping make government work better." The federal government's "Blue Ribbon Panel" to improve grants and contributions programs (incl. Status of Women Canada funding) is doing online consultations until 15 Sept 06. Its mandate is to strengthen accountability for grants and contributions and examine ways of reducing barriers to access to the $26 billion/year distributed by federal departments/agencies to individuals, corporations and non-government organizations that deliver programs (health and research, arts and heritage, employment and skills development, etc). - www.brp-gde.ca. ELECTION 2006: The Coalition for Pay Equity invites you to training/planning sessions to prepare to meet with your local candidates, along with other pay equity supporters. Sessions are 7 to 9 p.m.: Saint John Aug.22, Public Library; Bathurst Aug. 28, CCNB, 725 Collège St; Moncton Aug 23. Univ. de Moncton Law Faculty; Inkerman Aug. 23. Community Center; Fredericton Aug. 24. Muriel McQueen Fergusson Center; Edmundston Aug 24, 118 Martin St. Register: 855-0002 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . ******* NB Women's News******* I'M NOT A FEMINIST, BUT... - by Lauren McKeon, age 22 ... I've always thought feminism should be a natural thing for women. ...It's like connect-the-dots. Being a woman links you to wanting equality, which connects you to feminism. Logical, right? Apparently not. At 17, I thought girls who couldn't stomach the word were well, stupid. Not ignorant - they were enraged by the same things as I am. They were the first to protest at any "Hey, baby" comments as passionately as they did at being called "feminist". ... At 22, I think they're afraid of the word.... ...Sometimes I think all the beauty ads are the culprits. "Must be attractive" (has) become our mantra. Feminism is the new fat. ... Being identified with us feminists was like instantly gaining 20 pounds. But... it's like spitting on your mom's grave. They've contracted a case of mass amnesia. And it's not cute. We're part of a long and large revolution, baby. We didn't plop into the world with what we have now. ... - Excerpts, I'm not a feminist, but, Lauren McKeon, Chatelaine, Aug 06. ******* NB Women's News******* QUEBEC ORDERED TO PAY FOR WOMEN'S ABORTIONS The government has been ordered to pay abortion bills for as many as 45,000 women who had abortions in the province. The Superior Court has ordered the Quebec government to repay more than $13 million billed to 45,000 women who paid $200-$300 for authorized abortions outside of the hospital system since 1999. The court said abortions are covered under the Quebec Health Insurance Act, and the women should not have been charged extra. The class-action lawsuit was launched in 2002 by the Association for Access to Abortion. - Excerpts, Quebec ordered to pay for women's abortions, CanWes, 19 Aug 06. ******* NB Women's News******* NEW BRUNSWICK DOING WELL IN MAMMOGRAM TESTING In 2005, 75% of women (aged 50 to 69) had had a mammogram in the last 2 years, compared to 70% of Canadian women. 2005 75% (Canada 70%) 2000/01 71% (Canada 70%) 1996/97 66% (Canada 62%) By health region, 2005: Bathurst 82% Moncton 78% Miramichi 77% Campbellton 76% Fredericton 75% Saint John 71% Edmundston 60% (StatsCan warns that Region 4 stats should be used with caution) - Statistics Canada, Health Indicators, Dec 01, May 02, June 04, June 06 www.statcan.ca/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=82-221-X ******* NB Women's News******* TEACHER: HOW MEN TRY TO DEFUSE FEMINIST ANGER ... The guys did something that I see over and over again from men in women's studies classes. They prefaced their remarks "I know I'm going to get killed for this, but..." One of them even pretended to position himself by the door, "Once I say this ..." Most of the women laughed indulgently ... This reflects both men's fear of being challenged and confronted, and the stereotype of feminists as aggressive "man-bashers." No man is in physical danger from feminists. ... That doesn't stop men from using (half in jest) their exaggerated fear of violence to make a point about feminists. There's a conscious purpose to this behavior. It sends a message to women: "Tone it down." ... It almost always works ... to silence women ... It's a key anti-feminist strategy, even if that isn't the actual intent of the man doing it. I don't think I realized how common this strategy is - how I, as a teacher, permit it. ... Too many men spend a great deal of time trying to talk women out of their anger, or create pressures that remind women of the consequences of expressing anger. ... By comparing a verbal attack on their sexist attitudes to violence, they hope to defuse the expression of female pain and frustration. I know how difficult it is to listen to someone challenge your most basic beliefs. ...The first task of the pro-feminist male in this situation is to accept the reality and the legitimacy of the frustration and anger that so many women have with men, and to accept it without making light of it or trying to defuse it or soothe it. Pro-feminist men must work to confront their own fears about being the target of those feelings. - Excerpts, Words are not fists, Hugo Schwyzer, community college gender studies professor, California, http://hugoboy.typepad.com/hugo_schwyzer/2006/05/ive_been_thinki.html ******* NB Women's News******* AUGUST 20, 1869: Klondike Kate (Katherine Ryan) is born in Johnville. Travelling to Vancouver, Ryan joins the Gold Rush in 1898, becoming one of the first women to walk to Yukon over the Stikine Trail, and the first female North West Mounted Police. - This Week in New Brunswick History! www1.gnb.ca/0007/culture/heritage/thisweek-e.asp ******* NB Women's News******* QUEBEC'S APPROACH TO POPULATION HEALTH LAUDED Quebec's public health infrastructure ''is so much better organized and funded than English Canada's, that it could be used as a model for reform''. ... Quebec's efforts foster the development of ''healthy public policies'' for the whole government - adequate income security, community services and social housing, a good education system, a clean environment. Everything that governments do or fail to do affects the population's health and well-being. Quebec tends to implement strong policies to pre-empt the expansion of federal powers. Their Public Health Act affirms the Ministry of Health & Social Services' moral authority over other sectors: all ministries/agencies must by law consult the Minister of Health & Social Services when formulating laws/regulations that could have an impact on health. Québec also adopted a 10-year public health program to address the determinants of health, which supports research and skills development and tries to ensure a reduction of well-being inequalities. Québec is the only province that has integrated health care and social services within the same department, fostering the inclusion of a ''social'' or progressive agenda within the structures of the Ministry of Health (which gets 41% of government spending). A Health &Wellbeing Council to advise the Ministry was created in 1992 after community-sector representatives asked for means to air the views of socioeconomic groups. HWC initiated Social Development Forums, mobilizing professionals and the community sector for 3 years. Socioeconomic groups were thus well prepared to advance their views, demanding ongoing inclusion in decision-making. They were included in the overhaul of welfare after deep cuts by the federal government in the mid-90s. Still the progressive movement did not achieve their demand for ''zero impoverishment'' as a counterweight to the ''zero deficit'' objective in the mid-90s. Alberta and Ontario kept groups out of the process by abolishing funding, destroying representation mechanisms and taking reprisals against spokespersons critical of government. Quebec's policy faces both limits and implementation challenges, especially since the 2003 election of an economically conservative provincial government. Yet Quebec has gone farther than any other province - most provinces established a public health infrastructure only after the SARS crisis and their health promotion tends to focus on marketing of healthy lifestyles. - Quebec's Approach to Population Health, Nicole F. Bernier, Journal of Public Health Policy (2006) 27, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp ******* NB Women's News******* AS THEY SAY Being able to "think outside the box" presupposes you were able to think in it. - Automaker Bob Lutz Forward this e-newsletter to a friend, inviting them to subscribe by emailing "SUBSCRIBE" to
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