Paid Work and Women’s Health

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Publisher: Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s Health, 2005

Status – Current

The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) regularly collects information about how women use their time, including the amount of time spent in paid and unpaid work and leisure, and relates this to health and well-being. As research has repeatedly shown, Australian women of all ages are spending more time in the paid workforce, but still take the main responsibility for the unpaid care of their families, whatever their paid employment commitments. Despite this, ALSWH data show that, at least in middle age, women with paid work are in better health than those without, but the desirable amount of paid work varies depending on women’s other responsibilities.

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The First Decade

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Publisher: Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, 2005

Status – CURRENT

In 1996 over 40,000 Australian women were invited  take part in a long term project which would survey  the health of women across the nation, over time.   The participants were selected in three age cohorts:  younger women aged 18-23, mid-age women aged  45-50, and older women aged 70-75. These groups  were deliberately chosen in order to recruit women  before they passed through major turning points in  women’s lives. With eight years of change now tracked in the  surveys, the study is providing insights into major  trends in the lives of Australian women.

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The health and wellbeing of Northern Territory women: from the desert to the sea 2005

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Publisher: Department of Health and Community Services, Darwin, 2005.

Status – CURRENT

This report attempts to provide policy makers, researchers, health professionals and others, from a broad range of backgrounds, with a basis from which to better understand the issues confronting women’s health and wellbeing in the NT.  It covers the population characteristics of NT women, the social environment in which they live, their pregnancy and childbirth experiences, information on health and health behaviour and available health services.

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Health and Experience of Violence Among Young Australian Women

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Publisher: Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, 2004

Status – CURRENT

Violence against women is associated with serious reproductive outcomes. These include unwanted and unplanned pregnancies, high rates of abortion, low birth-weight, sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection, and the murder of both mother and child. Violence against women also impacts on their general physical and mental health.

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A Decade After Cairo Women’s Health in a Free Women’s Health in a Free Market Economy Market Economy

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Publisher: The Corner House and Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights, 2004

Status – CURRENT

This briefing first summarises the actions of several women’s groups to influence the outcome of the 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development and evaluates with hindsight some of the successes and failures of the Programme of Action. It goes on to assess four processes that affect women’s reproductive and sexual rights and health: • The decline and collapse in health services in many countries and their consequences for women’s access to reproductive health services; • The negative impacts of neo-liberal economic policies on women’s health generally; • The restriction of women’s rights due to such policies in combination with religious fundamentalisms; and • The assault on women’s reproductive and sexual health due to development policies underpinned by neo-Malthusianism.

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Healthy activity, healthy weight, healthy women

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Publisher: Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, 2003

Status – Current

The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) offers the first opportunity in Australia to explore the relationships between physical activity and weight and the development and progression of chronic disease in three cohorts of Australian women.  The study also provides the opportunity to track changes in physical activity and weight through natural life-stages, and to document the individual and social factors which are associated with changes in these variables across the adult life-span.

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Health in Rural and remote areas of Australia

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Publisher: Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, 2003

Status – CURRENT

Younger rural women’s aspirations and life experiences are very different from those of their city cousins (see Figures 1 and 2). Rural women marry younger and have more children, at an earlier age, than urban women. They are also less likely to have completed high school or have post-secondary qualifications. Rural women of all ages are more likely to do unpaid work in the family business or farm. Lack of qualifications and experience, combined with a depressed rural job market, restrict their options for paid work.

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Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health: Annual Report- First Five years

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Publisher: Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, 1999

Status – Current

The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (now known as the Women’s Health Australia Project (WHA)) commenced in June 1995 as a result of initiatives arising from the National Women’s Health Policy. The project has two components: large scale surveys of three ‘main’ cohorts of women selected by age and smaller studies of indigenous and migrant women. The studies of the main cohorts are conducted by the University of Newcastle and the special cohort studies are conducted by the University of Queensland. This report covers the initial funding period from 1995 to 1999. In future  there will be Annual Reports in this series.

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