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Centre for Women's Health, Gender and Society


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CWHGS is a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Women's Health, working in partnership with agencies throughout Asia and the Pacific to conduct research that makes a difference to the lives of women in our Region. For more information about our international health research program read more...

  
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Owning a home does not lead to better mental health and wellbeing

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Women with Disabilities Victoria

Led by Professor Anne Kavanagh, the Centre is collaborating with Hanover Welfare Services, The University of Adelaide, VicHealth, Women with Disabilities Victoria and the McCaughey Centre, read more...

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CSIRO partnership to improve breast density measurement   

CWHGS is working in partnership with CSIRO to develop and test methods to automatically measure mammographic breast density from screening mammograms (pictured).read more...

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ACCEPt

"Young people attending General Practice clinics participating in the Australian Chlamydia Control Effectiveness Pilot (ACCEPt) complete surveys on palm pilots."

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CIRIS—Directions for taking your own vaginal swab and what to do with your swab.

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  • Cultural and Global Mental Health Film Initiative-May Screening: Hidden Pictures
  • CWHGS Seminar 22nd April – Exploring the acceptability of online STI testing for rural young people in Victoria
  • Getting health-care right for women affected by genital cutting

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  • CWHGS PhD Completion Seminar 5-June-2013: The association of public transport accessibility and walking and risk of chronic disease
  • CWHGS PhD confirmation seminar 15-May 2013:‘Sleep, Gender&Health: Negotiating Non-normative Fatigue in Chronic Illness
  • CWHGS Seminar 20-May 2013: Sex work, the law and public Health
  • CWHGS Seminar 6-May 2013: Smoke and mirrors: Gender transformative strategies used by tobacco companies to get women hooked and lessons for public health

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  • The Social Determinants of Health 2013–1st and 2nd May 2013
  • Short course in Women and Global Health 2012

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Centre for Womens Health, Gender and Society

Gender and Health

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The World Health Organization Gender policy (2002) explicitly acknowledges that sex - the biological facts of being female and male - and gender - the cultural norms that determine femininity and masculinity - have an important impact on health and wellbeing.

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
The University of Melbourne
Level 3, 207 Bouverie Street
Carlton, Victoria, 3010, Australia

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    Centre for Womens Health, Gender and Society, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
  • Date created:
    24 July 2006
  • Last modified:
    16 May 2013