Download or read book Reaching for Health written by Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women's health movement shocked and scandalised when it burst into Australian politics in the early 1970s. It cast the light of day onto taboo subjects such as sexual assault, abortion and domestic violence, provoking outrage and condemnation. Some of the services women created for themselves were subjected to police raids; sex education material was branded 'indecent'. Moreover, women dared to criticise revered institutions, such as the medical system. Yet for all its perceived radicalism, the movement was part of a much broader and relatively conventional international health reform push, which included the 'new' public health movement, the community health centre movement and, in Australia, the Aboriginal health movement, all of which were critical of the way medical systems had been organised during the 20th century. The women who joined the movement came from diverse backgrounds and included immigrant and refugee women, Aboriginal women and Anglo women. Initially, groups worked separately for the most part but as time went on, they found ways to cooperate and collaborate. This book presents an account of the ideas, the diverse and shared efforts and the enduring hard work of women's health activists, drawn together in one volume for the first time. This relentless activism gradually had an impact on public policy and slowly brought forth major attitudinal changes. The book also identifies the opportunities for health reform that were created along the way, opportunities which deserve to be more fully embraced.
Download or read book Australian Women s Health written by Lenore Manderson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Women's Health: Innovations in Social Science and Community Research contains a compilation of studies that investigates the status of women's physical and mental health in Australia. The studies in this book will help researchers and practitioners from any country benefit from the methodological approaches used to ask questions of policy, program, and epidemiological interests. From Australian Women's Health, you'll learn ways to discover the different needs of women depending on their age, race, and economic situation; if these needs are being met; and how politics affect women's health care issues. Australian Women's Health offers suggestions for further research and gives you insight into Australian health policies, the social aspects of women’s health, and women's health care costs, in particular, for women in minority communities. Furthermore, this book investigates issues that affect women based on their occupation, cultural background, and roles in society. This information will help you understand the diverse needs and health care concerns of Australian women. The studies in Australian Women's Health identify current problems and offer future suggestions on how to improve women's health care, including: evaluating the positive and negative aspects of women’s health centers (WHC's) in order to offer or improve important services to women and maintain government funding conducting a follow-up survey in conjunction with the Women’s Health Australia (WHA) study to learn more about health service utilization, eating disorders, violence, social support and health care for widowers, and services available for treating emotional distress increasing communication between generations to teach younger women about sexually transmitted diseases, early pregnancy, cervical cancer, and available health services treating the emotional and physical medical needs unique to refugee women and how treatment can be improved examining the special concerns and health care issues of women in caravan parks, or trailer parks, such as drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, contraceptive practices, and chronic illnesses addressing how women perceive stress to be a causal factor of heart disease and angina, high blood pressure, ulcers, asthma, and muscular pain contributing factors to mental illness, such as domestic violence and sexual abuse teaching medical students about domestic violence and how to detect abuse in their patients’lives Australian Women's Health offers you proven reasons why special attention to women's health needs are important by examining women's own theories about health and its determinants. You will receive information, suggestions, and first-hand accounts from women as to their needs and concerns that will help you shape the future direction of women's health care.
Download or read book National Women s Health Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Women s Health Policy Advancing Women s Health in Australia written by Australia. Department of Community Services and Health and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book 4th Australian Women s Health Conference written by Australian Women's Health Network and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrets of Women s Healthy Ageing written by Cassandra Szoeke and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing draws on the findings of a unique study that has focused on the health of more than four hundred women in their mid-to-late lives. Over the past thirty years a team of international investigators has compiled a remarkable amount of data, aiming toraise awareness of modifiable risk factors in women's health. Their findings cover brain, heart and gut health, diet, sleep, exercise, and the benefits of socialising. But importantly, they highlight how the results relate directly to women's wellbeing. In Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing Cassandra Szoeke shares the wisdom revealed by this comprehensive study, showing how to promote overall wellness and providing the key ingredients for living a long and healthy life.
Download or read book Australian Women s Health Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Women s Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Women s Health Book An Introduction written by The Royal Women's Hospital and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Women's Health Book: An Introduction As a woman, looking after your health is the most important step you can take towards creating a healthy, happy family and a thriving community. But in today’s busy world, with so many demands on your time, it’s not always easy to find information you can trust. In this introduction to The Women’s Health Book, you will find out how and why women's health care is so different to men's; how you can keep your body and mind healthy as you grow older; and how to get the most out of a doctor's appointment. For a comprehensive look at every aspect of your body and health, you can go to the complete edition of The Women's Health Book. It is written specifically for women by health professionals who specialise in women’s health, clinicians who are well placed to help you look after your physical, mental and social wellbeing. The book is designed to help you participate as an equal partner in your health care, to empower you to ask questions and make better choices to improve your health. The Women's Health Book is an essential reference book for every Australian woman’s shelf.
Download or read book Health Goals and Targets for Australian Women written by Marion H. Powall and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exercise and Women s Health written by Laura A. Charlington and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant numbers of men and women take little exercise in the course of their occupation. The computer keyboard, the rise of private transport, the world by television, household 'labour saving' devices mean that with the minimal of physical effort people work and play. This book focuses on exercise and women's health.
Download or read book Unwell Women written by Elinor Cleghorn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative. Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.
Download or read book Australian Women s Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Working Party on a Women s Health Policy written by South Australian Health Commission. Working Party on a Women's Health Policy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western Australian Women s Health and Wellbeing Policy written by Western Australia. Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Women s Health Program written by Australia. National Women's Health Program Evaluation Steering Committee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
