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HEALTH REFORM
Why is health reform a women’s health issue?
Health reform is planned and purposeful health sector and health system change that is intended to affect both financing and delivery of health care. In the context of an ageing population and increasing incidents of chronic conditions, considerable health reform has been undertaken in Australia.
Gender analysis can add value to decision making about health reforms by making visible potential impacts on women who are central to the functioning and capacity of the formal and informal health systems. There is a wealth of experience and knowledge arising from the work of the women’s health sector and women’s policy units over many decades. However, women’s perspectives are not apparent in health reform documents or indeed, in Australia’s health policies.
Consultation with the women’s health sector is critical for ensuring that women are visible in policies, programs and reforms, while gender analysis is required to understand the differing effects of reforms on women and stratified analysis is necessary to unpack the effects of reforms on different groups of women.
Health Reform: Policy and Policy Development
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Health Reform: Analysis, Comment and Positions
Out of the shadows – domestic and family violence: a leading cause of homelessness in Australia
Publisher: Mission Australia March 2019
Status – CURRENT
Domestic and family violence is a major driver of homelessness in Australia, particularly for women and their children. This paper focuses on the intersections between these issues, drawing together the research, stories of victim-survivors and service provider wisdom to recommend ways forward.
A health system that supports contraceptive choice
Publisher: Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, 2016
Status – CURRENT
The report by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, which was funded by MSD in Australia, states that inadequate Medicare rebates are one of the key reasons women are not offered more effective and less user-dependent methods of contraception. The report identifies unplanned pregnancy as “a key health issue for women in Australia”. It calls for increased Medicare funding for contraception services, including the extension of Medicare items to include nurses working in GP clinics who insert and remove different types of long-acting reversible contraceptive devices.
Australian Government Response to Contributing Lives, Thriving Communities – Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services
Publisher: Commonwealth of Australia, 2015
Status – CURRENT
The National Mental Health Commission’s Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services ‘Contributing Lives, Thriving Communities’, highlighted the existing complexity, inefficiency and fragmentation of the mental health system and presented a compelling case for long-term sustainable reform. The Government’s response outlines 9 interconnected, concrete areas of reform:
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Health Reform: Evidence
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Health Reform: Practice
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Health Reform: Tools
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Safe and Strong A Victorian Equality Strategy
/in Government Policy, Victoria /by adminPublisher: Victorian Government 2017
Status – CURRENT
First Victorian Gender Equality Strategy, Safe and Strong, sets out a framework for enduring and sustained action over time. We aim to progressively build the attitudinal and behavioural change required to reduce violence against women and deliver gender equality. The Strategy draws on global evidence of what works in gender equality.
National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions
/in Australia-wide, Government Policy /by adminPublisher: Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council 2017
Status – CURRENT
Acknowledging that chronic conditions are the leading cause of illness disability and death in Australia, the National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions supports Australia’s international commitments and provides national guidance for a multisectoral response in the prevention and management of chronic conditions.
Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services
/in Australia-wide, Evidence / Statistics, Government Policy /by adminPublisher: Productivity Commission, Canberra, 2016
Status – CURRENT
Preliminary findings report. This preliminary findings report was released on 22 September 2016. You are invited to examine the preliminary findings report and make written submissions by Thursday 27 October 2016. The study report will be released in November. Areas discussed include health reform, policy, evidence and planning.
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A health system that supports contraceptive choice
/in Australia-wide, Evidence / Statistics, Government Policy, Social Model of Health /by adminPublisher: Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, 2016
Status – CURRENT
The report by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, which was funded by MSD in Australia, states that inadequate Medicare rebates are one of the key reasons women are not offered more effective and less user-dependent methods of contraception. The report identifies unplanned pregnancy as “a key health issue for women in Australia”. It calls for increased Medicare funding for contraception services, including the extension of Medicare items to include nurses working in GP clinics who insert and remove different types of long-acting reversible contraceptive devices.
Investing in women’s mental health: strengthening the foundations for women, families and the Australian economy
/in Australia-wide, Government Policy, Policy Consultation, Policy Development Tool /by adminPublisher: Australian Health Policy Collaboration, April 2016
Status – CURRENT
This paper makes a case for a new and comprehensive policy approach to improving women’s mental health across the life course. This requires a commitment to identifying gendered risk factors and tackling them through protective public policy measures. The paper proposes actions to federal, state and territories governments, primary health networks, service providers and all local, regional and national bodies in order to translate that commitment into meaningful and measurable policy implementation
Chronic diseases in Australia: Targets, indicators and accountability – Policy forum report
/in Australia-wide, Government Policy, Policy Development Tool /by adminPublisher: Australian Health Policy Collaboration, 2015
Status – CURRENT
At a forum on 25 November 2015, representatives from seven working groups and the broader public health sector came together to discuss chronic disease targets and indicators. The working groups covered the topics of mortality, morbidity and high risk populations; alcohol; salt; physical inactivity; tobacco; diabetes and obesity; and mental health. Attendees supported development of a prevention scorecard.