Women's health & wellbeing strategy launch - Stage 2

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Overview

In September 2006, the Minister for Health launched Stage 2 of the Victorian Women's Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2006-2010.

Stage 2 continues the focus on disadvantaged women and outlines three priority action areas identified by; research findings, consultation with key stakeholders and Government policy directions. These three priority action areas are:

• mental health and wellbeing
• sexual and reproductive health
• social connectedness.

The Women's Health and Wellbeing Strategy Stage 2: 2006-2010, identifies violence for particular consideration and DHS will continue to be a key partner in the Women's Safety Strategy.

One of the next steps will be the development of a Gender and diversity lens for health and human services for use across DHS programs and funded agencies to assess and improve approaches to women’s health and wellbeing

For further information on the Victorian Women's Health and Wellbeing Strategy: Stage Two: 2006-2010, please contact:

Ozlem Acik
Diversity Unit, Social Policy Branch
Department of Human Services
Telephone: (61 3) 9096 7244
Fax: (61 3) 9096 7170
Email: ozlem.acik@dhs.vic.gov.au

Research findings

The background paper below was commissioned by the Diversity Unit of the Victorian Department of Human Services to provide background and context for the second iteration of the Women’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

The study adopted a life course approach but acknowledging that all the issues relevant to the health and wellbeing of all women across their life courses could not be canvassed in a project of this size. Given the breadth and complexity of women’s health and wellbeing, topics focussed on emerging issues of concern or issues that are relatively under researched. Therefore the paper complements a range of major studies on women’s health listed below.

Background paper: Women's Health and Wellbeing Strategy Stage 2: 2006-2010

Links to major reports/research

Your health: A report on the health of Victorians, 2005, Department of Human Services
Available from the Health Status of Victorians website

The health costs of violence, Measuring the burden of disease caused by intimate partner violence, VicHealth (398kb, pdf)
Available from the VicHealth website

Two Steps Forward , One step back – Community Attitudes to Violence against women, VicHealth (874kb, pdf)
Available from the VicHealth website

Women’s Health Australia – The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, The University of Newcastle
Available from the Women's Health Australia website

Private Lives Report – A report on the health and wellbeing of GLBTI Australians
Available from the Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria (GLHV) website

The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young Victorians (685kb, pdf)
Available from the Sex!Life! website

Photos

Photos from the women's health and wellbeing strategy launch, September 2006.

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