Table of Contents
- Forword, Marilyn Beaumont
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Raising the Bar on Women's Health Promotion,
Lorraine Greaves
- Part 1
- Chapter 1: Envisioning Gender-Transformative Health Promotion,
Ann Pederson, Nancy Poole, Lorraine Greaves, Julieta Gerbrandt,and
Mei Lan Fang
- Chapter 2: Power and Empowerment in Health Promotion for Women,
Pamela Ponic, Lorraine Greaves, Ann Pederson, and Lynne Young
- Chapter 3: Diversifying Health Promotion, Colleen Reid, Ann
Pederson, and Sophie Dupéré
- Part 2
- Chapter 4: Igniting Global Tobacco Control, Natalie Hemsing and
Lorraine Greaves
- Chapter 5: Recalculating Risk: An Opportunity for
Gender-Transformative Alcohol Education for Girls and Women, Lauren
Bialystok, Nancy Poole, Lorraine Greaves, and Gerald Thomas
- Chapter 6: Promoting the Mental Health of Immigrant Women by
Transforming Community Physical Activity, Donna S. Lee, Wendy
Frisby, and Pamela Ponic
- Chapter 7: Pioneering Women-Centred Heart Health Promotion, Ann
Pederson, Mona Izadnegahdar, Karin H. Humphries, and Lynne
Young
- Chapter 8: Housing, Violence, and Women's Health: Addressing
the Social Determinants of Health in Health Promotion, Pamela Ponic
and Jill Atkey
- Chapter 9: Illuminating Gender-Transformative Mental Health
Promotion in the Workplace, Paola Ardiles, Kathy GermAnn, and Farah
Mawani
- Chapter 10: Rethinking Preconception and Maternal Health: A
Prime Opportunity for Gender-Transformative Health Promotion,
Lauren Bialystok, Lorraine Greaves, and Nancy Poole
- Part 3
- Chapter 11: Provoking Gender-Transformative Health Promotion,
Nancy Poole, Judie Bopp, and Lorraine Greaves
- Chapter 12: Creating Lasting Change: Advocacy for
Gender-Transformative Health Promotion, Petra Begnell and Rose
Durey
- Chapter 13: Promoting Women's Hospitals as a Site for Change,
Lorraine Greaves and Elizabeth Whynot
- Chapter 14: Taking a Stand: A Gender-Transformative Approach to
Preventing Violence against Women, Rose Durey
- Chapter 15: Catalyzing Gender-Transformative Health Promotion,
Lorraine Greaves
- Afterword, Helen Keleher
- Contributor Biographies
About the Author
Lorraine Greaves is Senior Investigator at the BC
Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health.
Ann Pederson is the Director of Population Health
Promotion at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. She worked for
over 17 years at the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for
Women’s Health and is currently completing a doctorate at the
University of British Columbia in sex, gender, and health
promotion.
Nancy Poole is Director of Research and Knowledge
Translation at the BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health in
Vancouver.
Reviews
“Making It Better breaks new ground in health promotion. It is an
essential tool for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners
working to improve the health of their communities. Amid dire
warnings of unsustainable demands and spiraling costs in health
service delivery, Making It Better is a welcome voice offering a
fresh health promotion approach to improving health outcomes. In
addition, it is a timely exposé of product marketing and
advertising, which contributes to so many of our modern-day chronic
illnesses. It promises pathways to better health for women, girls,
and ultimately for all.” - Kelly Banister, Chief Executive Officer,
Australian Women’s Health Network
“This book provides a refreshing and interesting look at health
promotion…. It brings together the Canadian and Australian
contexts, the determinants of health, and feminist theory and
ideology, which makes it unique.” - Joyce Engel, Associate
Professor of Nursing, Brock University
