This review looks at women’s sexual health and sexuality as dynamic and changing throughout life. It identifies some of the social aspects of sexual health and sexuality that impact on and influence women and men’s behaviours.

Young and Female: Using linked data to profile service use explores characteristics of service use by young female clients from the Clients in Common dataset across the health and community services sector in Metropolitan Adelaide, and selected areas of South Australia. Analysing the Clients in Common dataset allows characteristics or trends in the types of...

In this paper for the 2004 Australian Institute of Family Studies conference Fiona Andrews and Hal Swerissen explore the preferences and experiences of women with different work/family arrangements in managing their children's healthcare. She finds that all women, irrespective of their working arrangements, held similar preferences for managing their children's health, but that the majority...

Early postnatal discharge is itself not a new concept. Its first recorded use was in New Orleans, 1942, when postnatal mothers were discharged soon after birthing to relieve pressure on crowded hospital situations. Since then, the effects of early postnatal discharge on mothers and babies have been widely studied, but the research has primarily focused...