Ontario. Women's Health Bureau

• Women's Health Bureau

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.

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.

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

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Annual reports, Ministry of Health, 1987-1993

Government of Ontario Phone Books, 1987-1999

KWIK Indexes, 1987-1999

Archivist(s):
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