Welcome
The People Behind womenshealthmatters.ca
The Organizations Behind womenshealthmatters.ca
Vision, Mission and Values
Principles of Women's Health
Funding
Sponsorship

Welcome

Welcome to womenshealthmatters.ca, your Canadian source for reliable, evidence-based and up-to-date information on women's health and lifestyle issues. Most of the information on womenshealthmatters.ca is also available in French on our sister site, femmesensante.ca.

At womenshealthmatters.ca, consumers will find the latest information, news and research findings on women's health, diseases and lifestyle trends. The site, which is updated several times a week, is backed by women’s health experts at Women's College Hospital.

• Visit our virtual Health Centres to learn more about topics such as cancer, cardiovascular health, pelvic health, environmental health and osteoporosis.
• Keep up with the latest developments in women's health by visiting our News section.
• Check out the Health A-Z section where you will find short articles we have written on a wide variety of women’s health topics and detailed descriptions of books and periodicals, audiovisual and multimedia materials and websites.
• Visit Le Club, a virtual meeting place for women to join discussion groups, share their stories and experiences with other women, and send questions to our women's health experts at Women's College Hospital.
• Subscribe to our monthly e-bulletins.

Information provided on this site is generated under the watchful eye of women’s health experts at Women's College Hospital.

Please note, the information provided on womenshealthmatters.ca is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a consumer and her physician.

Any information you submit to this site is dealt with in accordance with our privacy policy. Please also see our terms of use page for more information about using this site.

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The People Behind womenshealthmatters.ca

The womenshealthmatters.ca group is a small team of experienced people from a variety of backgrounds, all with one thing in common: a passion for women’s health. Our core team is based in downtown Toronto, and there is also an extended team that works virtually, from a variety of locations. Meet our team.

The Organizations Behind womenshealthmatters.ca

Women's health experts from Women's College Hospital and the Women’s College Research Institute developed this site and play an ongoing role in its expansion and review.

Women’s College Hospital is well established as a leader in women’s health - our remarkable history goes back more than a century in Ontario. We have gone through many changes in the past several years - the most recent being regaining our independent governance on April 1, 2006. Women’s College Hospital is a community dedicated to achieving leadership in women’s health in an ambulatory care setting. We are the first and only independent ambulatory care hospital in Ontario, and the only hospital in Ontario focusing exclusively on women’s health. As a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, we support research in women’s health and will lead the way in training health-care providers within an ambulatory setting.

The Women’s College Research Institute (WCRI) brings together all of the researchers and research activities of Women’s College Hospital to create research that improves women's lives. In addition to studies conducted at the hospital, WCRI also works with other women’s health researchers and with students to facilitate a new, more comprehensive understanding of women's health. WCRI works to make research knowledge useful and accessible to the people who need it most.

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Women's College Hospital - Vision, Mission and Values

Our Vision

We will become a world leader in women's health and a pre-eminent ambulatory care hospital.

Our Mission

We will enhance the health and quality of life of all we serve.

We will do research to improve women’s lives.

We will empower our communities by exchanging knowledge.

We will work in caring, interprofessional teams and educate others to do the same.

Our Values

We will be guided by our values in everything we do.

Leadership
Innovation
Collaboration
Compassion
Respect
Equity
Safety
Excellence

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Principles of Women's Health

At womenshealthmatters.ca, we subscribe to the HONcode principles of the Health On the Net Foundation, and we are committed to the following women's health principles:

• the empowerment of women through informed, participatory decision-making
• a broad definition of health
• collaborative planning through community partnerships
• accessibility of programs
• high quality care
• innovative and creative approaches to women's health research and in response to contemporary health issues

We hope you will find this site useful, and welcome your questions, comments and suggestions.

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Funding

Start-up funding for womenshealthmatters.ca was generously provided by the CA*net Institute.

Bell generously provided funds to maintain and grow womenshealthmatters.ca and its sister site femmesensante.ca.

Parts of the Health A-Z section (formerly the Women’s Health Matters Resource Database) were funded by the Ontario Women's Health Council from March 2002 until the Council closed in March 2007. The Council was fully funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

We gratefully acknowledge the Women's College Hospital Association of Volunteers and the Women's College Health Trust for their continued support of womenshealthmatters.ca.

Sponsorship

Our corporate sponsors do not exert any influence on the editorial content, selection of content or presentation of material on womenshealthmatters.ca. 

For information about becoming a sponsor please contact us at info@womenshealthmatters.ca

Please note that we do not permit advertising on womenshealthmatters.ca.

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