Status of Women committee  Comprehensive in my perspective would also suggest balance. Just as an example, 3,000 people around the world today will die in road crashes, and another 3,000 the next day, and the next day--1.2 million every year. A balance would suggest to me to look across all of the threats

Status of Women committee  I'll comment primarily on the issue of health professional capacity. The health professionals are the delivery system in any country for health care to whoever needs health care. I think, really, one of the major challenges we face going forward in the next five to 10 years—which

Status of Women committee  I have nothing further to add.

Status of Women committee  I think the issue again goes back to engaging the key stakeholders in the countries we hope to be offering some aid and assistance and expertise to. The scenario you describe—for example, that culturally the women wouldn't leave the village, perhaps, without the permission, for l

Status of Women committee  For road safety and injury prevention, you really have to look at a systems approach. One of the reasons we focus on car seats in Canada is because we have well-developed road infrastructure and we have very strong public policy to support road safety initiatives and injury preve

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. It would have to be part of what I would see as a comprehensive plan.

Status of Women committee  There are significant gaps in the data. Many countries do not have the systems for reporting, so we have best estimates, largely. The World Health Organization is one of the sectors that we look to for those, but it is acknowledged, and in childhood health particularly, that ther

Status of Women committee  I would suggest that if we're not tracking injuries accurately, we're not likely to be able to track some of the other causes of death for children, which really speaks to the need for surveillance systems and using information technologies readily available through cellphones to

Status of Women committee  Merci beaucoup. My work is predominantly in Canada; however, I have worked with the World Health Organization around the training of health professionals and the looming shortage of nurses, particularly. For example, in 2020 the U.S. will be short one million nurses, and whenev

Status of Women committee  Would I be supportive of a comprehensive strategy for maternal and child health? Of course I would be supportive of that. I would encourage a focus on collaboration with the various target countries. One size does not fit all, in my experience, so the population and the specific

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak with you today. I represent AUTO21, Canada's network of centres of excellence team of researchers that focus on the automotive sector. I am a nurse by training. I bring today to my comments background as a pediatric critical care n