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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.

Site	Highlights
Ageing Well www.ageingwell.org.au	Emotional Health Lifestyle Nutrition through life
Bone Health for Life www.bonehealthforlife.org.au	Lifestyle Factors Nutrition Physical Activity
Early Menopause www.earlymenopause.org.au	Symptoms Emotional Wellbeing
Endometriosis www.endometriosis.org.au	Symptoms Treatment
Health for Women www.healthforwomen.org.au	Healthy Lifestyles Emotional Health Health Issues Nutrition Physical Activity Sexuality
Managing Menopause www.managingmenopause.org.au	Signs and symptoms Management Emotional Health Lifestyle Nutrition Physical Activity Sexuality
Managing PCOS www.managingpcos.org.au	PCOS Symptoms Management PCOS Questions

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 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

Greek

Italian

Khmer

Macedonian

Polish

Russian

Serbian

Spanish

Tigrigna

Turkish

Vietnamese

See Fact Sheet

Books

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

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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

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....Read more

Treating mild gestational diabetes benefits mothers and babies

A study conducted at the University of North Carolina and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that screening and treating pregnant women for mild gestational diabetes resulted in fewer caesarean sections and other serious birthin...Read more

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