Health Equity and Economic Abuse

Economic safety is health equity

Economic abuse is not only a financial issue. It is a health issue, a safety issue, and a silent public health crisis.

 

We are advancing national and international leadership on the link between economic abuse, health outcomes, digital safety, mental health, reproductive health, and health equity.

 

Emerging evidence shows that economic abuse is widespread among survivors and can contribute to serious health harms, including chronic stress, deprivation, delayed care, and heart-related conditions.

 

Health systems can no longer separate women’s health from women’s economic safety. Economic abuse affects access to care, medication, housing, food, transportation, privacy, and safety.

Our international leadership

In 2026, CCFWE hosted its first international event during the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York, in collaboration with the Federation of Medical Women of Canada (FMWC).

 

Advancing Women’s Health in the Digital Age: Ending Tech-Facilitated GBV and Economic Abuse. This event brought urgent global attention to the intersection of women’s health, digital safety, economic abuse, and gender justice.

Read our past articles

Explore CCFWE’s published work on economic abuse, health, technology, mental health, reproductive justice, and the disproportionate impact on Black women:

 

  1. Technology is deepening economic abuse: Canada’s health system can’t afford to ignore it
  2. Economic abuse: The disproportionate impacts on Black women
  3. The Mental Health Cost of Financial Abuse
  4. Reproductive Economic Abuse: The Intersection of Financial Control, Immigration, and Lost Autonomy

Partner with us

Are you a health care leader, public health provider, researcher, policymaker, funder, technology partner, financial institution, community organization, or survivor-serving agency?

 

CCFWE is building national and international action to ensure economic abuse is recognized as a health, safety, and equity issue. Support our initiative. Partner with us. Join us in building systems where women are safe physically, emotionally, digitally, and economically.

 

Contact us to collaborate, [email protected]

Join our Research Institute

Join CCFWE’s Research Institute, a national space for public health professionals, researchers, students, policymakers, and community leaders who want to advance evidence, policy, and systems change on economic abuse, health outcomes, digital safety, and health equity.

Together, we can build stronger research, support survivor-informed initiatives, and help ensure economic abuse is recognized as a critical public health issue.

Join our National Taskforce for Women’s Economic Justice to Advance Public Health

This work is also advanced through CCFWE’s National Taskforce for Women’s Economic Justice, where cross-sector partners help drive policy, research, public health action, and systems change on economic abuse, health equity, and women’s economic safety.