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  1. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  2. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  3. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  4. Connexions Library: Health
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  5. HealthWatcher.net Consumer Health Watchdog
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web site which seek to expose quackeryand bogus practices in health care, including cancer quackery and diet scams.
  6. Mirage of Health
    Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  7. Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
    AIDS in the News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    "The mass media have played a key role in constructing public understandings of the epidemic. In the majority of instances, HIV-related disease has been presented as a condition affecting social and/or demographic minorities -- groups whose exceptional behaviour has put them at special risk. Yet at the same time, HIV and AIDS are said to threaten us all: be we heterosexual, lesbian or gay, be we young or somewhat older; be we of minority or majority ethnic status."
  8. World Health Organization
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The WHO is the United Nations' specialized agency for health, established inl 1948. WHO's objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Experts on Health in the Sources Directory

  1. ACT Foundation
  2. Anne Arsenault
  3. Association of Local Public Health Agencies
  4. BASF Canada
  5. Can-Fit-Pro
  6. Canada Health Infoway
  7. Canadian Academy of Periodontology
  8. The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
  9. Canadian Down Syndrome Society
  10. Canadian Federation of University Women
  11. Christian Science Committees on Publication in Canada
  12. Citizens for Public Justice
  13. College of Nurses of Ontario
  14. Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN)
  15. Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada
  16. IMS HEALTH Canada
  17. Institute for Work & Health
  18. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada
  19. Dr. Anthony W. Martin, Author of Medical Crisis: Secrets Your Doctor Won't Share With You
  20. Ronnie Nijmeh, Stress Relief Consultant, Author and Speaker
  21. Ontario Nurses' Association
  22. Ontario Public Health Association
  23. Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario
  24. Sistering: A Woman's Place
  25. Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
  26. SourceWatch.info
  27. Sutherland-Chan Clinic
  28. University of Regina
  29. Wilfrid Laurier University

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