Improving Access to Health Information

Gender Sensitive services

Improving women’s access to women-sensitive health practitioners is one of the key aspects of the WCHM 2008-2012 Strategic Plan, with a focus on developing a more detailed picture of the preferences and needs of women and about the access issues faced by women.

WCHM is currently working with two students from the ANU Medical School on projects looking into the involvement of gender sensitive health service delivery principles into medical school curricula.

Improving Access to Health Information

Improving women’s access to gender sensitive health information is one of the key aspects of the WCHM 2008-2012 Strategic Plan.

WCHM recently launched It goes with the Territory! ACT Women's views about Health and Wellbeing Information, which was the result of an extensive study into the health and wellbeing information needs and seeking trends of different groups of ACT women. This report is available from the Reports and Publications section of this website. 

The data gathered through the survey, focus groups, follow-up survey and literature review was so rich, that WCHM will be complimenting It goes with the Territory! with five companion reports highlighting the needs and preferences of five particular groups of women in the ACT. These groups include: young women; older women; Aboriginal women; mental health carers; women from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds; and women with disabilities. These companion reports will be launched throughout the second half of 2010.