Women's Health Intersections of Policy, Research, and Practice

Deadman, Jennifer & Pat Armstrong

ISBN 10: 0889614660 / ISBN 13: 9780889614666

Published by CANADIAN SCHOLARS' PRESS 0, 2008

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Moderate wear. The pages are clean with no highlighting or writing detected. The cover is clean with minor wear including some corners that are very slightly frayed/curled. Ships from Canada. Satisfaction guaranteed with 30-day return policy. ; 6.75 X 0.75 X 10 inches; 290 pages; R0 s0.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women's Health Intersections of Policy, Research, and Practice
• Publisher: CANADIAN SCHOLARS' PRESS 0
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889614660
• ISBN 13: 9780889614666
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Good+

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Synopsis

Focuses on women's health issues from multiple perspectives, drawing upon research and practice that includes qualitative and quantitative methodologies in data collection and knowledge formation. This book incorporates work that has been produced from grassroots investigations of women's health issues and addresses health and diversity issues.

About the Author

Pat Armstrong is Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. An extremely prolific academic, Armstrong is the author, co-author, or editor of over 25 books and dozens of book chapters and journal articles. With CSPI, Armstrong has published six books: Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices (2013); Thinking Women and Health Care Reform in Canada (co-edited with Barbara Chow, Karen Grant, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Beth Jackson, and Ann Pederson, 2012); Womens Health: Intersections of Policy, Research, and Practice (co-edited with Jennifer Deadman, 2008); Studies in Political Economy (co-edited with Caroline Andrew and Hugh Armstrong, 2003); Feminism, Political Economy, and the State (1992); and Feminism in Action (co-edited with Patricia Connelly, 1992). In 2011, she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and honoured as a Distinguished Research Professor for outstanding contributions to the University through research in 2010. Armstrong has authored several research reports for unions, public commissions, and non-profit organizations, served as Chair for the Canadian Institute of Health Research, and appeared as an expert witness on more than a dozen cases related to womens health care work and pay equity. Jennifer Deadman is at the Institute for Health Research at York University.