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Western Australian Women’s Health Strategy: Setting the Scene 2013-2017

Publisher: Department of Health, State of Western Australia (2013)

Status – CURRENT

Setting the Scene is a companion document to the WA Women’s Health Strategy 2013-2017 and together these documents aim to promote better health for Western Australian women, particularly the vulnerable and most at risk.

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Western Australian Women’s Health Strategy 2013-17

Publisher: Department of Health, State of Western Australia 2013

Status – CURRENT

The aim of the Western Australian Women’s Health Strategy 2013-2017 (The Strategy) is to improve and promote the health and well being of Western Australian women, particularly vulnerable women at most risk of poor health outcomes. The Strategy also highlights the priority needs of, and for, women, in order to achieve better health outcomes into the future.

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WA Health Substantive Equality Policy

Publisher: 2015 Government of Western Australia Department of Health

Status – CURRENT

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Freedom from Fear Action Plan 2015: Working towards the elimination of family and domestic violence in Western Australia (the Action Plan).

Publisher: Government of Western Australia Department for Child Protection and family support, 2015

Status – CURRENT

The Action Plan focuses on engaging and responding to perpetrators of family and domestic violence and sets out 20 actions under the following priority areas:

  • promote understanding and awareness about family and domestic violence;
  • target communities and populations at greatest risk;
  • trial and evaluate innovative approaches to perpetrator intervention;
  • promote consistent quality practice in engaging and responding to men who use violence; and
  • increase the capacity and authority of the service system to stop perpetrators of family and domestic violence when they are identified.

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Empowering the XX Factor – Improving access to women’s health services for disadvantaged women

Publisher: Ishar Multicultural Women’s Health Centre 04/07/2014

Status – CURRENT

The role of the Clinical Senate of Western Australia is to provide a forum where collective knowledge on current strategic health issues are discussed and debated. Recommendations are made and are subsequently provided to the Director General (DG), the State Health Executive Forum (SHEF) and through the DG, to the Minister for Health.

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Western Australian women’s health strategy 2012–2015

Publisher: Western Australia : Department of Health. Women and Newborn Health Service, 2013

Status – CURRENT

The aim of the Strategy is to improve the health and wellbeing of Western Australian women and particularly those women who are at most risk. It promotes substantive equality and social inclusion by focusing on priority areas and particular high risk groups of women that need targeted action. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women experience poorer health across almost all health areas compared to non-Indigenous women. As such, the health of Aboriginal women in Western Australia is the benchmark for all women in the State.

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Western Australia’s Family and Domestic Violence Prevention Stategy to 2022: Creating safer communities

Publisher: Department For Child Protection 2012. Perth, Western Australia

Status – CURRENT

Western Australia’s Prevention Strategy, is a framework for action over a ten year period until 2022 and continues the reforms outlined in the WA Strategic Plan for Family and Domestic Violence 2009-2013 (State Plan). The Strategy sustains a focus on outcomes of prevention and early intervention, victim safety, and perpetrator accountability.

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Women’s health matters : a 10 point plan 2010-2014

Publisher: WA Peak of Women’s Health WA Inc., 2011

Status – CURRENT

The purpose of the 10 Point Plan of Action is to set a policy agenda for improving the health and wellbeing of all Western Australian women through targeted strategies. The Plan provides the rationale for why women’s health and wellbeing matters. It proposes a policy framework premised on social determinants and gender equality, and the process through which the recommendations of the Plan can be achieved.

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WA Strategic Plan for Family and Domestic Violence 2009-2013

Publisher: Government of Western Australia Department for Child Protection, November 2009

Status – CURRENT

This Strategic Plan aims to raise the community’s understanding and awareness of family and domestic violence. However, the first priority of the Plan is to ensure that each part of the system has the capacity to take action and, through their combined, integrated efforts, maximise the safety of victims and the accountability of perpetrators.

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Improving Maternity Services: Working Together Across WA – A policy Framework (2007)

Publisher: Government of Western Australia Department of Health, November 2007

Status – CURRENT

This policy framework aims to expand options for maternity care in WA, enabling more choice and greater continuity of care for a woman and her family. The aim is to shift the focus from highly medicalised, hospital based maternity models of care towards a greater emphasis on community based primary maternity services.

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