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More than 100 delegates from across Canada will be at Wilfrid Laurier University Thursday for a twoâ€"day conference on Health Care in Canada: Setting Priorities. Speakers will be discussing a number of pressing health problems and issues that affect almost every Canadian, including e Issues such as class, gender, age and ethnicity, all factors which affect the incidence of iliness, discussed by Dr. Carl D‘Arcy of the University of Saskatchewan, e The conflicts between doctors, nurses, patients Three grants totalling $471,818 have been awardâ€" ed to health researchers at the University of Wateriloo, two to finance projects aimed at helping people to stop smoking, and one to examine the effects of relocation on the elderly living in instituâ€" Of the two smoking research projects, one ‘is new:; it will compare strategies that family physicians use in counselling patients to stop smoking. Dr. D.G. Willms (in the department of health studies) and a team of four other reâ€" searchers have been awarded $96,000 for this study. A continuing project will evaluate a program to prevent smoking in public schools in the Waterloo area. Drs. K.S. Brown and J.A. Best WLU hosts conference on Health Care in Canada 'sc“us's;&vbg}v DPr. _C;â€"r'l'i)v'A;éyircrnf’tb'e Universlty of Chairperson for the conference is Dr. Juanne skatchewan, Clarke of Laurier‘s sociology and anthropology deâ€" » The conflicts bet\veen doctors, nurses, patients . partment. UW researchers get grants Science awards to former UW students Three graduates of University of Waterloo are among 40 Simon Fraser University students and graduates recently awarded Natâ€" ural Science and Engineering Research Council scholarships and fellowships. Douglas J. Beckett and John Chapman each received twoâ€" in e :furniture and others that affect the standard of health care in Canada, with Dr. Anne Crichton of the University of British Columbia, e Alternatives to present health care, such as community and home care, discussed by Prof. Evelyn Shapiro of the University of Manitoba. Other speakers include Douglas Angus of the Institute of Health Care in Ottawa, and Dr. David Korn of the Ontario ministry of health. have been awarded $352,300 to complete this project, which teaches children the social skills they need to resist the temptation to begin smokâ€" The other new project at UW will track the survival record of people 65 years of age and over who were placed in longâ€"term care institutions by the Hamiltonâ€"Wentworth Placement Coâ€"ordination Service from 1980 to 1986. Demographic factors will be examined, along with health status, appropriateness of the placements, number of relocations, types of facilities and levels of care. Dr. M.E. Haight and researchers in the Faculty of Environmental Studies have received $23.518 to conduct this study. e year renewable postâ€"graduate scholarships valued at $11,600. Douglas O. Cheyne, who comâ€" pleted a BSc at the University of Waterloo and an MSc and PhD at Simon Fraser, received a postâ€" doctorate fellowship valued at $23,300. He will continue his studies in neurobiology. Kathi Smith has been elected 1987â€"88 president of Big Sisters of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo and Area. Smith, who is the Executive Director of Junior Achievement of Kâ€"W Inc., succeeds Caryl Paikin Yule, a Speech Pathologist at the Rotary Children‘s Centre. Other officers elected at the annual meeting are Betty Thompson, CKCO TV, first viceâ€"president, Jim McGill, Mutual Life, second viceâ€"president; Joanne Waugh, Waterâ€" loo County Board of Education, secretary, and Drew Hellerman, treasurer. Directors are Paul Robinson, Karen Baileyâ€"Robinson, John McLennan, Terri Romenco, Valerie Hoag, Michael Carty, Peter Hallman, Len Olender, Jane Haleâ€"MacDonald, Lavon Swarthout, Arlene Dunnette and Merle Haase. Big Sisters, a nonâ€"profit agency raises 60 per cent of its budget through agency and community sponsored events. Another seven per cent is received from government grants and 33 per cent from United Way. Big Sisters helps girls, ages four to 16, who may be experiencing social, emotional or family problems by matching them with women who have volunteered to be Big Sisters The same supportive friendships are offered to Little Buddies. young boys who are matched with a Big Sister, who assists them in dealing with daily problems, or who are lacking in older female companionship within the family. A new program, Homework Helpers. matches University students with young people who need special, after school assistance with their school work. Big Sisters of Kâ€"W and Area is the largest and most successful Big Sister agency in Ontario. In 1986 a total of 232 children were served. For further â€" information, contact Marilyn Markow executive director, at 743â€"5206. New slate elected for Big Sisters