Rethinking Women and Healthy Living in Canada

Publisher: 2013 British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health

Status – CURRENT

Report on gender based analysis of health policy and approaches in Canada with relevance to the Australian context.

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Gender equality and women’s empowerment strategy

Publisher: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australian Government, 2016

Status – CURRENT

This strategy applies to the work of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and other Australian government agencies delivering Official Development Assistance (ODA). This document outlines why and how we work on gender equality and women’s empowerment in foreign policy, in economic diplomacy and aid for trade, in the aid program, and in our corporate and human resource policies.

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Responding to Child to Parent Violence

Publisher: Responding to Child to Parent Violence 2015

Status – CURRENT

Child to Parent Violence (CPV) is the most hidden, misunderstood and stigmatised form of family violence. It involves teenage and younger girls and boys who use physical, psychological, emotional and financial abuse over time to the extent that parents/carers live in fear of their child. The project adopted an action research methodology motivated to understand practice and policy in relation to CPV in each partner country (Spain, Bulgaria, England and Sweden) and to learn how to improve both by reflecting on the changes made through project actions. The project aimed to raise awareness of child to parent violence, find out how countries across Europe deal with it and provide resources including films and toolkits for practitioners who work with young people and parents experiencing this problem. The project has raised awareness of two CPV intervention models currently in use – in particular Break4Change (Brighton & Hove City Council) and Non Violent Resistance (National University of Ireland, Galway) – and investigated how these models could be used effectively in other countries.

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Mifepristone With Buccal Misoprostol for Medical Abortion: A Systematic Review

Publisher: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2015

Status – CURRENT

This journal article by Chen and Creinin provides a systematic review of the safety and efficacy of mifepristone followed by buccal misoprostol in pregnancies for early medical abortion.  Early medical abortion, medical termination of pregnancy, medical abortion, MTOP, systematic review.

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Expanding health worker roles to help improve access to safe abortion and post-abortion care

Publisher: World Health Organisation, July 2015

Status – CURRENT

The guideline provides a range of options for expanding of health worker roles in the provision of safe abortion care and post abortion contraception.

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High sensitivity cardiac troponin and the under-diagnosis of myocardial infarction in women: prospective cohort study

Publisher: British Medical Journal, January 2015

Status – CURRENT

Although having little effect in men, a high sensitive troponin assay (blood test to check for changes in enzyme produced during heart attacks) may double the diagnosis of heart attack in women

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Abortion Policies and Reproductive Health around the World

Publisher: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division, 2014

Status – CURRENT

This report presents information on changes in legal grounds for abortion and related reproductive health policies since around the time of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development,  for 197 countries in the world, including all 193 Member States of the United Nations, 2 Observer States (the Holy See and the State of Palestine) and 2 non-member States (Cook Islands and Niue) of the United Nations. The report is based primarily on information available from the World Population Policies Database. The report also draws information from the World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision of the United Nations Population Division and the ICPD Beyond 2014 Global Survey conducted by the United Nations Population Fund in 2012, as well as selected data from other sources.

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Millenium development goals [Australia’s progress]

Publisher: Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, November 2013

Status – CURRENT

Outlines Australia’s contribution to global progress towards the MDGs, mainly through foreign aid.

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OECD/INFE Policy Guidance on Addressing Women’s and Girls’ Needs for Financial Awareness and Education

Publisher: OECD, 2013

Status – CURRENT

In October 2010, the OECD International Network on Financial Education1 (INFE) established an expert subgroup on “Empowering Women through Financial Education and Awareness”, recognising that women have specific financial literacy needs and are often over-represented in disadvantaged segments in developed and developing countries. The INFE and this dedicated subgroup aim at developing research and evidence-based policy analysis to better understand women’s specificities vis-à-vis financial literacy in various national contexts and elaborate guidance to help policy makers and interested stakeholders strengthening women’s competencies in this area.

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Report of the APA Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2008

Status – CURRENT

This report summarises the available evidence on the mental health factors associated with abortion. While the data is related to the United States, this evidence is still relevant to the Australian policy context.

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