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Reaching for health : the Australian women's health movement and public policy / Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson.

By:

Gray Jamieson, Gwendolyn

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, �2012.Description: 1 online resource (PDF file (xvi, 394 pages))Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781921862670
192186267X
1921862688
9781921862687

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reaching for health.DDC classification:

362.1982 23

LOC classification:

RA564.85

NLM classification:

WA 11 KA8

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Concepts, concerns, critiques -- With only their bare hands -- Infrastructure expansion: 1980s onwards -- Group proliferation and formal networks -- Working together for health -- Women's reproductive rights: confronting power -- Policy responses: states and territories -- Commonwealth policy responses -- Explaining Australia's policy responses -- A glass half full ... -- Appendix 1, Time line of key events, 1960-2011 -- Appendix 2, Women interviewed for the book.

Abstract: This book presents an account of the ideas and work of women's health activists. It also identifies the opportunities for health reform that were created along the way.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book presents an account of the ideas and work of women's health activists. It also identifies the opportunities for health reform that were created along the way.