Women's Health Action
WHO WE ARE
Women's Health Action is a community-based advocacy group which provides health information and educational services for women. The group was founded in 1984 by health activists Sandra Coney and Phillida Bunkle to coordinate claims for women injured by the Dalkon Shield IUD. Three years later the founders published the article that led to the Cervical Cancer Inquiry at which the group represented consumers. Since that time the group has had a particular interest in patients' rights and health ethics.
OUR WORK
The group produces quality information for women and will search out information to meet specific needs. Regular workshops, meetings and seminars are held on topics such as menopause, breast screening and pre-menstrual syndrome.
Two regular newsletters are produced. Women's Health Watch covers the latest in research findings, legal matters and women's health politics, while Women's Health Update provides news of policy developments.
As advocates Women's Health Action lobbies government and providers of health services to ensure women's needs are met and women have a voice in decisions being made in the health sector.
RESOURCES AVAILABLE
People can be placed on our mailing list to hear about upcoming events and to know of our resources, such as newsletters, leaflets, fact sheets. Packs are available on the following subjects:
(Packaging and postage not included)
- Phyto-oestrogens $10
- Natural progesterone $10
- Interstitial cystitis $10
- Hysterectomy $10
- Alternatives to hysterectomy $10
- Polycystic ovary syndrome $10
- RU486 $10
- Vulval pain $10
- DES $10
- Breast screening $10
- Breast cancer and prevention and risk factors $10
- Polycystic ovary syndrome $10
- Urinary incontinence $10
- Osteoporosis $10
- Hormone replacement therapy $10
- Oral contraceptives and blood clots $10
- Ovarian cancer $10
- Latest studies on HRT $10
Fact sheets:
- Oral contraceptives and blood clots
- Coming off Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Tamoxifen
- Roaccutane
- Roaccutane (for health workers)
- Breast Implants
- Depo-Provera (for health workers) or abridged
- Endometriosis
- Hysterectomy
- Liposuction
- Uterine Fibroids
- Cystitis
- Premenstrual syndrome
- IUCDs
CONTACT DETAILS
Women's Health Action
27 Gillies Avenue
Newmarket
Auckland
phone 09 520 5295
fax 09 520 5731
email info@womens-health.org.nz
website www.womens-health.org.nz
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