National Women's Health Policy
Identifying key health issues
Table of contents
- Foreword - From the Minister for Health and Ageing
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
Chapter One: History of the policy and policy principles- Achievements of the First National Women's Health Policy
- Development of the National Women's Health Policy 2010
- The principles
- Gender equity
- Health equity between women
- A life course approach to health
- Focus on prevention
- A strong and emerging evidence base
- Developing the goals
- Identifying key health issues
- Chronic diseases prevention
- Mental health
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Maternal health
- Violence against women
- Economic health and wellbeing
- Developing the key health areas identified in the consultations into priority health issues
- The social determinants of health
Chapter Two: Key health challenges for Australian women today and into the future- Chapter Three: Women's experience of health issues
- Current and future government action against the four priority health issues
- Social factors influencing women's health and wellbeing
- Goal areas
- Appendix A - List of all submissions received
- References - 1-100
- References - 101 - 200
- References - 201 - 300
- References - 301 - 400
- References - 401 - 457
Within the submissions and consultations women raised a broad range of health issues of most concern, and focused on particular groups the policy needed to address to achieve health equity among women. The most common issues raised were:
- chronic disease prevention;
- mental and emotional health;
- sexual and reproductive health;
- maternal health;
- violence against women; and
- economic health and wellbeing.