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For example, because of their different jobs and schedules, women and men may be exposed to toxins in different amounts and levels. In South Africa, women are exposed more often to pesticides during planting and harvesting and men during application (London et al., 2002; Kisting in WHO, 2005). Men’s jobs in factories can involve higher exposure than women’s to toluene, a chemical solvent that can cause various problems to the reproductive and nervous systems (Neubert et al., 2001). In factories and services in developed and developing countries, women and men are exposed to different physical and psychological stressors such. | A Report on Accessing Primary Health Care for Black Women and Women of Colour in Ontario April 2011 Every Woman Matters A Report on Accessing Primary Health Care for Black Women and Women of Colour in Ontario Toronto August 2010 Report preparation Charmaine C. Williams Notisha Massaquoi Melissa Redmond Soma Chatterjee LLana James Investigators Charmaine C. Williams Principal Investigator Notisha Massaquoi Co-Investigator Project Coordinators Amoaba Gooden Tulika Agarwal Narale Research Assistants Marina Hillaire Michelle Davis Community Steering Committee Vanita Shabharwal Maria Eugenia Cazares Kira Grant Yvonne Pearce Claudette Samuels Bonnie Wakely Safia Ahmed Rose Guiterrez Jasmin Thibault Floydeen Charles Fridel Executive Committee Eunadie Johnson Women s Health In Women s Hands Community Health Centre Ekua Asabea Blair Rexdale Community Health Centre Hazelle Palmer Planned Parenthood of Toronto Simone Hammond Parkdale Community Health Centre Angela Robertson Sistering - A Woman s Place Kripa Sekhar South Asian Women s Centre Leila Springer Olive Branch of Hope Erica Mercer City of Toronto Public Health Pilot Project Navigator Kuri Tesfayi Pilot Project Workshop Facilitators Emily Paradis Marilyn Oladimeji Martha Ocampo Women s Health in Women s Hands Pilot Project Primary Health Care Team Kim Gordon Nurse Practitioner Charlene Welsh Nurse Practitioner Mercedes Umana Therapist Deone Curling Therapist Judith Andrade Registered Nurse Megan Saunders Physician Vanita Varma Student Nurse Funding Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Primary Health Care Transition Fund PHCTF 2004-2006 Report Design Frantz Brent-Harris This study was conducted by Women s Health in Women s Hands Community Health Centre and the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work University of Toronto in partnership with Sistering - A Woman s Place Planned Parenthood of Toronto Rexdale Community Health Centre Parkdale Community Health Centre and with the support of