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Women's Health Information

More in depth information with practical health and lifestyle approaches, including Emotional Wellbeing, Nutrition and Physical Activity for women and their health professionals, is available on our group of websites.

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Ageing Well
www.ageingwell.org.au
Bone Health for Life
www.bonehealthforlife.org.au 
Early Menopause
www.earlymenopause.org.au 
Endometriosis
www.endometriosis.org.au
Health for Women
www.healthforwomen.org.au 
Managing Menopause
www.managingmenopause.org.au 
Managing PCOS
www.managingpcos.org.au 

The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health has an extensive range of educational resources available including fact sheets, multilingual fact sheets, websites and books (for sale through our shop).   

Fact SheetFact Sheets

Concise, easy-to-understand women's health information is available in Fact Sheets for a wide range of topics in PDF and MP3 formats.

See Fact Sheets.

Multilingual Fact Sheet

A fact sheet on 'Understanding menopause and midlife' is available in sixteen languages and English in PDF.

Languages include:

  • Arabic
  • Bosnian
  • Chinese
  • Croation
  • English
  • Filipino 
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  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Khmer 
  • Macedonian
  • Polish
  • Russian
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  • Serbian
  • Spanish
  • Tigrigna
  • Turkish
  • Vietnamese  
    		•

    See Fact Sheet

    Books

    A selected range of titles relevant to women's health management are presented.

    See Books.

    Content updated April 17, 2008

     
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    Media Releases
    Roses, chocolates … and condoms!

    18 February 2010: Getting swept up in the romance is no excuse, according to Jean Hailes gynaecologist Dr Elizabeth Farrell. She asks Australian women not to forget to protect themselves and their partners against Sexually Transmissible Infectio...Read more...
    Research shows why motherhood is exhausting

    25 January 2010: Research has confirmed something that women have long suspected. Motherhood is exhausting. New research from the Jean Hailes Foundation for Women has found mums take an average 9,000 steps a day as they look after children, pick...Read more...
    Diagnosis prediabetes: early wake up call for Australian women

    November 12, 2009: Being told you have prediabetes or gestational diabetes (diabetes when pregnant) is not a bad thing according to Professor Helena Teede, research director at the Jean Hailes Foundation for Women’s Health. These conditions...Read more...
    International research
    Oestrogen-only HRT linked to increase risk of asthma in postmenopausal...

    A French study of 57,664 women has found that 1.64 per 1000 women per year who used oestrogen-only hormone replacement therapy (HRT) developed new onset asthma, compared to 1.05 per 1000 women per year in those who had never used any form of HRT. T...Read more
    Women warned to take cardiac symptoms to heart

    A study from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and UBC School of Nursing has found that contrary to popular belief, women experience many of the same typical heart attack symptoms as men, including chest pain, shortness of breath, arm disc...Read more
    Low vitamin D levels in elderly linked to increased mortality rate

    Vitamin D, largely synthesised in response to skin exposure to sunlight, has important roles in the body. It is critical for bone health, fall prevention and is linked to many aspects of women’s health. A recent US study found that elderly pe...Read more
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