Only 5% of guidelines define the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’.
- Finkel Professor of Global Health, Monash University
Disaster-affected communities form the backbone of any disaster response. But survivors are often underutilised in shaping plans for their community’s longer-term recovery and preparedness efforts.
Australians’ mental health has suffered terribly during COVID. They need to know what the plan is for a future pandemic.
Counsellors in schools and general practitioners and nurses should be equipped with tools to detect symptoms of mental health problems.
Guru bimbingan di sekolah, dokter umum, dan perawat dapat menggunakan kuesioner khusus untuk mendeteksi gejala masalah kesehatan mental pada remaja.
There are endless euphemisms for women’s conditions and body parts. If you can’t name a body part, how can you seek medical help if something appears to be wrong with it?
Women should not be blamed for getting pregnant accidentally, because factors outside their control are frequently at play.
Few Australian women use long-acting reversible contraception, despite its advantages over other methods. These contraceptives offer women long-term, cost-effective, “fit-and-forget” contraception.
Fear-based messages from practitioners and awareness campaigns encourage perfectionism and unwarranted personal responsibility for events over which new mums may have little control.
Women with endometriosis say it affects their whole life, but they receive little support for managing this condition, which doesn’t have a cure or a treatment regime without nasty side effects.
In future, women could remain fertile for longer by undergoing an ovarian tissue transplant, according to paper published this week by American and Danish researchers. The Reproductive Biomedicine paper…
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