Nursing Publications
Title
Closing the Gap: Rural Women's Organizations and Rural Women's Health in Canada
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2010
Journal
Ontario Women's Health Network E-Bulletin
Volume
Spring/Summer 2010
Issue
Spring/Summer 2010
First Page
1
Last Page
14
Abstract
This OWHN EBulletin is a synopsis of Closing the Gap a project of the Rural Women Making Change Research Alliance that addressed the unique and often under researched issues women in rural communities experience. Rural women are disproportionately affected by worse health outcomes that are caused in part by issues of poverty and inaccessible health and social services. This EBulletin will look at how Rural Women’s Organizations (RWOs) fill the needed gap in services, but also how issues of cutbacks to RWOs in particular negatively affect the health of rural women in Canada.