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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

Safe and Strong A Victorian Equality Strategy

09/12/2017/in Government Policy, Victoria /by admin

Publisher: 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.

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National Strategic Framework for Chronic Conditions

05/01/2017/in Australia-wide, Government Policy /by admin

Publisher: 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.

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Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services

11/14/2016/in Australia-wide, Evidence / Statistics, Government Policy /by admin

Publisher: 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

05/24/2016/in Australia-wide, Evidence / Statistics, Government Policy, Social Model of Health /by admin

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.

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Investing in women’s mental health: strengthening the foundations for women, families and the Australian economy

05/23/2016/in Australia-wide, Government Policy, Policy Consultation, Policy Development Tool /by admin

Publisher: 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

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Chronic diseases in Australia: Targets, indicators and accountability – Policy forum report

11/25/2015/in Australia-wide, Government Policy, Policy Development Tool /by admin

Publisher: 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.

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Out of the shadows – domestic and family violence: a leading cause of homelessness in Australia

05/27/2019/in Australia-wide, Uncategorized /by admin

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.

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Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform -A White Paper by ACN 2016

12/08/2016/in Australia-wide, Position Paper /by admin

Publisher: Australian College of Nursing 2016

Status – CURRENT

The position paper covers information regarding health care workforce including future issues where nurses need to have a voice in healthcare reform at all levels.

Keywords: policy, reform, healthcare, nursing.

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A health system that supports contraceptive choice

05/24/2016/in Australia-wide, Evidence / Statistics, Government Policy, Social Model of Health /by admin

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.

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Why Women’s Health?

04/06/2016/in Australia-wide, Victoria /by admin

Publisher:Women’s Health Victoria, 2001

Status – NOT CURRENT

Written by Kim Johnstone, Sarah Brown and Marilyn Beaumont of Women’s Health Victoria, this report answers the questions about why there is a need for gender specific health research, services,  practice, and policy.

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Australian Government Response to Contributing Lives, Thriving Communities – Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services

03/21/2016/in Australia-wide, Government Policy, Other Individual Stakeholder Position /by admin

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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