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Matters of EngagementAuthor: mattersofengagement
Matters of Engagement examines issues at the intersection of health, health care and society. Including: how people in Canada access and experience health care service delivery and distribution; how those experiences impact both individual and community health; and the multitude of environmental, systemic, and political factors that favour some and disadvantage many. Jennifer Johannesen and Emily Nicholas Angl produce each episode with the aim of illuminating difficult or confounding issues, to provoke much-needed critical dialogue among all stakeholders. Language: en Genres: Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Voices from the Heart of the Project: Peer Health Coaches (BETTER Women 3/5)
Episode 48
Wednesday, 1 October, 2025
Meet the peer health coaches - the volunteers at the heart of the BETTER Women project. Through candid conversations, we hear from women who underwent extensive training in motivational interviewing and health coaching to support others on their wellness journeys. From international physicians to cancer survivors to newcomers seeking community connection, these coaches share what drew them to the program, how the training changed their own relationships, and the profound impact of walking alongside someone through health behaviour change. This is healthcare powered by human connection. [download transcript] More episodes in this series: Trailer Episode 1: Going “Upstream” to Prevent Chronic Disease Episode 2: The Science behind Peer Health Support Related research: Assessing the effectiveness of “BETTER Women”, a community-based, primary care-linked peer health coaching programme for chronic disease prevention: protocol for a pragmatic, wait-list controlled, type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial Improving chronic disease prevention and screening in primary care: results of the BETTER pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial. Results from the BETTER WISE trial: a pragmatic cluster two arm parallel randomized controlled trial for primary prevention and screening in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic Links: The BETTER Women project Canadian Cancer Society Women's College Hospital
