August 25, 1998 / le 25 août 1998

CMAJ 1998; 159(4)

© 1998 Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne

Press release

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Editor's preface Mot du rédacteur en chef

Cover: The diversity of our society presents special challenges for Canadian physicians. In this issue we examine the concept of diversity through the lens of women's health: How do factors such as culture, disability and sexuality affect our delivery of health care to women? Couverture : La diversité de notre société pose des défis spéciaux aux médecins du Canada. Dans ce numéro, nous examinons le concept de la diversité vue sous l'angle de la santé des femmes : comment des facteurs comme la culture, l'incapacité et la sexualité jouent-ils sur la prestation des soins dispensés aux femmes?

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Letters ˇ Correspondance Instructions to correspondents / Directives aux correspondants Bring back the rotating internship!, C. MacKnight; response: E. Ryten, A.D. Thurber Fee code creep, I.D. Richardson; A.R. Wells; W. Mitchell-Gill; W.D. Panton; W.B. Hanley; response: B. Chan Diagnosis of chest discomfort simplified, R.S. Baigrie Paying physician managers, P.J. Potter Abortion in proportion, I. Mohamed; response: L. Buske Perverse incentives for all, S. Lofsky; R. Richards; P. Leger The best treatment may be no treatment at all, P.J. Rush; response: R.H. Glazier Conference organizers, please take note!, I. Kovitch

	Evidence ˇ Études
321	Reporting of gender-related information in clinical trials of drug therapy for myocardial infarction, P.A. Rochon, J.P. Clark, M.A. Binns, V. Patel, J.H. Gurwitz [full text / résumé]
329	Survivors of sexual abuse: clinical, lifestyle and reproductive consequences, T.K. Young, A. Katz [full text / résumé]

	Editorials ˇ Éditoriaux
336	The challenge of diversity in the delivery of women's health care, P.J. Ballem [full text]
339	Goin' to the country: challenges for women's health care in rural Canada, M.T. Johnston [full text]

	Education ˇ Éducation
342	Understanding women's health through data development and data linkage: implications for research and policy, A. Kazanjian [full text]
346	Lessons in women's health: body image and pulmonary disease, A. Day [full text]
350	The Asian Women's Health Clinic: addressing cultural barriers to preventive health care, L. Sent, P. Ballem, E. Paluck, L. Yelland, A.M. Vogel [full text]
355	Women who use injection drugs: the social context of risk, E.M. Whynot [full text]
359	Sexual health of women with disabilities, R. Basson [full text]
363	Disability and childbirth: meeting the challenges, E.M. Carty [full text]
370	Not all your patients are straight, R.J. Simkin [full text]

	From the front lines ˇ Aux premières lignes
376	Abreast in a Boat — a race against breast cancer, D.C. McKenzie [full text]
379	Not alone: peer support through audio teleconferencing for rural women with breast cancer, V.R. Curran, J.G. Church [full text]
382	A pain consultation clinic for women, M.V. Seeman, A.S. Gordon [full text]
385	Healthy living for immigrant women: a health education community outreach program, M. Murty [full text]
388	Providing primary health care to immigrants and refugees: the North Hamilton experience, N. Fowler [full text]

	Experience ˇ Expérience
392	The poor are different from you and me, C. Despard [full text]

	Features ˇ Chroniques
395	Canadians participate as unique US project puts death under the microscope, H. Kent [full text / en bref]
397	Private sector becoming the key to research funding in Canada, A. Silversides [full text / en bref]
399	Controlling health care costs a costly business for HMOs in US, M. Korcok [full text]

402	On_the_Net@cma.ca ˇ Sur_le_Net@cma.ca    Women's health and the Internet

	Pulse ˇ Médicogramme
424	What women don't know could kill them / Ce que les femmes ignorent pourrait les tuer

ISSN 0820-3946 159(4) 305-424 (1998)