Australian abortion law and practice
Published: Children By Choice Association Inc., 2014
Status – CURRENT
Fourth National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections strategy 2014-2017 [Consultation]
Publisher: Australia. Department of Health, April 2014
Status – CURRENT
The draft Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander BBV and STI Strategy 2014-2017 supports a coordinated effort across HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and STI, while at the same time addressing unique disease or population specific approaches and issues. This draft strategy includes priority populations, risk factors and guiding principles. All national strategies include priority actions in the areas of prevention; testing; management, care and support; workforce; removing barriers; and surveillance, research and evaluation.
Draft national strategies for blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections
Publisher: Australia. Department of Health, April 2014
Status – CURRENT
The draft Strategies support a coordinated effort across HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and STI, while at the same time addressing unique disease or population specific approaches and issues. Common features include priority populations, risk factors and guiding principles. All strategies include priority actions in the areas of prevention; testing; management, care and support; workforce; removing barriers; and surveillance, research and evaluation.
Tracking equity: Comparing outcomes for women and girls across Australia
Publisher: Council of Australian Governments. Reform Council, 21/10/2013
Status – CURRENT
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council has played a critical role in tracking progress, nationally and on a state-by-state basis, against the COAG reform agenda. The council has analysed and publicly reported on governments’ performance against outcomes, performance indicators and targets agreed by COAG. However, until 2013 gender analysis was not directly incorporated in the assessment of governments’ performance. The council’s first report on gender, Tracking equity: Comparing outcomes for women and girls across Australia, redressed this omission.
Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health 1921 – 1926 Cohort
Publisher: Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, 2013
Status – CURRENT
The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) is a longitudinal population-based survey of over 60,000 Australian women in four cohorts. This report is a summary of data for 12,432women in the cohort born 1921-26 who completed the baseline survey in 1996 (aged 70-75 years), and surviving women for each survey point up to May 2013 (aged 87-92). To reduce bias due to non-death attrition, data have been imputed for surviving women who did not return surveys using data for women who did return surveys. The data therefore represent changes in the population for women who survive to different ages.
Keep Your Boat Afloat
Publisher: Women’s Health Goulburn North East, 2013
Status – CURRENT
WHGNE has operated a domestic violence specific No Interest Loans (NILS) program since 2007. As a result of this work we recognised that there was a need for resources identifying financial abuse as a form of family violence. Women who were separating from a partner were missing out on services available to them because they were not aware that the financial abuse they had experienced in their past relationship was in fact, family violence. We would regularly hear from women “He controlled all the money. I had nothing to spend on myself or the kids. But he never hit me. That’s not domestic violence is it?” The Federal Government’s National Plan of action to reduce violence against women and their children argues that because financial dependence is a major factor influencing a woman’s decision to remain with an abusive partner, and family violence is also often associated with poverty and homelessness; therefore financial independence and security are essential for leaving and staying away from an abusive partner.
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan (NATSIHP) 2013-2023
Published: Australia. Department of Health, 2013
Status – CURRENT
The Health Plan aims to guide efforts to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and achieve the Closing the Gap targets through focusing on the key areas that will make the most impact on improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s health and wellbeing outcomes. The Health Plan is accompanied by a supporting Companion Document, which outlines Commonwealth activity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and the social determinants of health, as at 1 July 2013.
Policy Scorecard for Gender Mainstreaming: gender equity in health policy
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, April 2013
Status – CURRENT
Despite Australia’s leadership in women’s health policy, its health policies are largely devoid of gender equity concerns at both national and state levels. Mainstreaming of gender equity outcomes has not yet occurred in Australia.
PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY Australian alcohol guidelines – who is a risky drinker?
Publisher: Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, 2012
Status – CURRENT
This study investigates women’s drinking behaviour over the lifespan. It presents findings based on almost 40,000 women in three age groups (18-23 years, 45-50 years and 70-75 years) who were surveyed approximately every three years between 1996 and 2012. The women answered questions about how often and how much alcohol they usually drank per week, and how often they binge drank. Four drinking behaviours were defined: i) no risk, ii) binge less than once a month, iii) binge once a month or more, iv) long-term risk (more than two drinks a day on average). The four groups were then compared.
National implementation plan for the first action plan 2010-2013
Publisher: Australia. Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, September 2012
Status – CURRENT
This document outlines how the Commonwealth Government, along with all State and Territory Governments and the community, will work together to lay the groundwork for the future to deliver on the key national priorities under the National plan to reduce violence against women and their children 2012-2022.