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AdvocacyGlobal Health IssuesBelow are links to fact sheets and information about various global health issues which may be distributed or enhance your own understanding. Those produced by CSIH were created at a workshop led by Aaron Freeman on effective lobbying. Health and Poverty Reduction (PDF) – Learn about how poverty can affect and be affected by health, and the relationship of health and macroeconomics. Global Health Research (PDF) – Learn about how research is critical to improving health, and Canada’s role in global health research. Indigenous Global Health (PDF) – Learn about why Canada should support an independent, but interconnected, international strategy for indigenous global health. Public Health and International Development Fact Sheet (PDF) – Learn about how public health is crucial to both social development and Canada’s human security and foreign policy agenda. Reproductive Health Fact Sheet (HTML) [http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2005/presskit/factsheets/facts_rh.htm] – Learn about various women’s reproductive health issues, including maternal mortality, family planning and HIV/AIDS in this fact sheet produced by the United Nations Population Fund. Globalization and Health: The Gender Dimension (PDF) [http://www.crwh.org/PDF/consensus.pdf] – Learn about priority issues at the intersect of globalization, gender and health including mental health, infectious disease, and violence, in this background paper published by the Centre for Research in Women’s Health. Visit the WHO Media Centre [http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/en/] to find fact sheets on more than a hundred global health issues. |