TY - JOUR
T1 - Cohort Profile: The Australian longitudinal study on Women's Health
AU - Lee, Christina
AU - Dobson, Annette J.
AU - Brown, Wendy J.
AU - Bryson, Lois
AU - Byles, Julie
AU - Warner-Smith, Penny
AU - Young, Anne F.
N1 - Funding Information:
The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health is conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Newcastle and the University of Queensland. We are grateful to the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing for funding, and to the women who participate. The authors gratefully acknowledge the valuable contributions of all staff, students, and colleagues who have been associated with the project since its inception.
PY - 2005/10
Y1 - 2005/10
N2 - [Extract] The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH), also known as Women's Health Australia, has its history in the women's movement of the 1980s. At that time, activists successfully pressured governments in Australia, at both the State and Federal levels, to develop women's health policies. Part of the development process of the National Women's Health Policy, which was launched in 1989, involved a national consultation with women's organizations representing more than a million women. From this consultation the idea of a national longitudinal study on women's health emerged. As with the National Policy generally, the longitudinal study was to be premised on a social rather than a narrowly focused medical approach to health. The study was envisaged as a strategy to enable women to gain greater power over shaping the nature of health care. This was given impetus by studies at the time showing that it was not major medical conditions that were of most concern to most women. Studies asking women to rate their main health concerns found these concerns to be tiredness, menstrual difficulties, overweight, depression, and anxiety.
AB - [Extract] The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH), also known as Women's Health Australia, has its history in the women's movement of the 1980s. At that time, activists successfully pressured governments in Australia, at both the State and Federal levels, to develop women's health policies. Part of the development process of the National Women's Health Policy, which was launched in 1989, involved a national consultation with women's organizations representing more than a million women. From this consultation the idea of a national longitudinal study on women's health emerged. As with the National Policy generally, the longitudinal study was to be premised on a social rather than a narrowly focused medical approach to health. The study was envisaged as a strategy to enable women to gain greater power over shaping the nature of health care. This was given impetus by studies at the time showing that it was not major medical conditions that were of most concern to most women. Studies asking women to rate their main health concerns found these concerns to be tiredness, menstrual difficulties, overweight, depression, and anxiety.
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U2 - 10.1093/ije/dyi098
DO - 10.1093/ije/dyi098
M3 - Article
C2 - 15894591
AN - SCOPUS:27544470876
SN - 0300-5771
VL - 34
SP - 987
EP - 991
JO - International Journal of Epidemiology
JF - International Journal of Epidemiology
IS - 5
ER -
