Status of Women committee  I'm not an expert in terms of how to actually shift this policy. I think there are a lot of strategies that have sat on shelves, I guess I would say. I want to be very careful about any recommendation that I might make in regard to that. I think there are a lot of smaller grea

Status of Women committee  I think that it's an interesting conundrum, because none of us want research to sit on the shelf. I've been guilty of feeling like my work is done when I've published a paper. I think we're all recognizing that we need a new way of doing research, in that we need to bring practit

Status of Women committee  I think that would be a fabulous recommendation, and I think that in some ways there's a tool there in relation to the strategy for patient-oriented research. I hate to keep beating that drum. But that's what it's about, because we know that's a huge problem right now in Canada,

Status of Women committee  I think we have recognized—and I think the expert you heard from before has said this—that primary care providers are not screening. They don't have the tools and they haven't been well trained. I think, again, there are materials out there that could be disseminated and utiliz

Status of Women committee  It is one of the best mechanisms to use. I cannot speak on behalf of those organizations, but they do have a mandate to provide professional materials and best practice guidelines. I think there are some there, and we could find ways to partner with those organizations.

Status of Women committee  The tragedy is that many of us have met those individuals. I totally agree; it's a dire situation. But as dire as it is in Toronto, try going to Fort McMurray and finding mental health services. We also have an issue around geographic challenges that we need to be thinking abou

Status of Women committee  It's very important. I would hope that I wouldn't be practising based on what I learnt in 1981. All health professionals are responsible to continue to improve and understand current issues. The science changes, and that's a really important thing for us to bear in mind, that pra

Status of Women committee  I think the question is about rates of anorexia and this notion of how we actually get good data in relation to this. I think Marla Israel provided data from 2006. We do not have other current data in Canada. Marla Israel might be able to correct me on this, but I think we in Ca

Status of Women committee  I think if we were to go across the country and look at nursing curricula, you'd probably see fairly similar numbers to what was reported in relation to medical curricula. We'd probably see about two hours being spent in the overall curricula. This is one of the problems: no matt

Status of Women committee  I think it's a great point, and Marla has addressed it. I think it's really important. You pick up any magazine or watch any movie on television, and young women are getting very specific messages about what their bodies should look like. We also hear in the popular imagination a

Status of Women committee  That's such a good question, and I don't have the numbers at my fingertips. I do want to say that there have been some studies looking at how much money, for example, the diet industry is making in terms of benefiting from marketing weight-loss products, different types of diets,

Status of Women committee  I think we can recognize that some disordered eating, particularly paying close attention to one's food, calorie counting, obsessiveness around calories is potentially a first symptom of disordered eating. I think you heard from the experts that early recognition of disordered ea

Status of Women committee  At CIHR, a number of teams have been supported to specifically investigate eating disorders. For example, at the Douglas Institute in Montreal there's a multidisciplinary team that involves geneticists, psychologists, physicians, all joining together to address the issue of eatin

Status of Women committee  In addition to having researchers partnered together, ideally—and we're seeing more of this—the health portfolio is partnering together. We're finding ways that we can link up, join up the programming being offered by Health Canada and the Public Health Agency with researchers wh

Status of Women committee  Yes, I can give you more specifics, more details about that, but that's basically the running of the organization, the other 5%.