Ontario. Women's Health Bureau

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Women's Health Bureau

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Women's Health Bureau

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1987-1999

      History

      The Ministry of Health created the Women's Bureau in 1987 as part of a series of initiatives aimed at increasing awareness of and sensibility to women's issues and the number and range of health care services available to women in Ontario.

      In 1992, the Women's Bureau became part of the Health Strategies Group. Within this Group, the Bureau was included in the Health Policy Branch in 1996.

      The Women's Health Bureau ceased to exist in 1999. Many of its responsibilities were assumed by a new independent advisory body, the Women's Health Council. A Women's Health Council Secretariat was created in the new Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to provide support to the Council.

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      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Women's Health Bureau worked with women, the Ministry of Health and health service providers to ensure that women's health needs were addressed in health policies as well as developing health policies in areas that had been identified as priorities for women.

      Projects and initiatives with which the Bureau was involved include: establishment of women's health centres; certification of midwives; sexual assault education and campaigning; studies on the ethical and legal aspects of human reproduction; urban health issues for elderly, disabled, immigrant, refugee and ethnic minority women; the establishment of a Maternal and Newborn Advisory Committee; studies on the appropriate use of cesarean section; research on post-partum care; breast cancer screening; studies on and establishment of free-standing abortion clinics; and education of health professionals on dealing with women's health issues.

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      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Health (1972-1999)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA42

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Health controls Ontario. Women's Health Bureau

      Dates of relationship

      1987-1999

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Women's Health Council Secretariat (1999-)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA1910

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Women's Health Council Secretariat is the successor of Ontario. Women's Health Bureau

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA2101

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      For Review

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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          Sources

          Annual reports, Ministry of Health, 1987-1993

          Government of Ontario Phone Books, 1987-1999

          KWIK Indexes, 1987-1999

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          Paquet