Women's health
Guide
Brain injury: a practitioner guide
This practitioner guide is designed to support service providers to contextualise medical information about brain injuries for women living in violent and stressful domestic settings. It aims to improve a practitioner's ability to respond to women who may have a mild brain injury by providing: key information about mild brain injury in the context of...
Guide
Recovering from brain injury
This practitioner guide is designed to support service providers to contextualise medical information about brain injuries for women living in violent and stressful domestic settings. It provides information directly to the woman and creates an opportunity for service providers to work with the woman to create a recovery plan that reflects her unique circumstances.
Journal article
Factors that affect the provision of medical abortion services in Australian primary care
The aim of this review is to synthesise primary research findings about factors that affect medical abortion provision by general practitioners, nurses, midwives, and pharmacists in Australia. The paper concludes that a range of individual, service level, and system factors exacerbate the effects of geographic location and financial considerations on the provision of medical abortion...
Guide
Responding to strangulation in the context of domestic, family and sexual violence
This assessment tool supports service providers to screen, assess and respond to women who have experienced strangulation in the context of domestic, family and sexual violence. The tool is also designed to pick up smothering, suffocation and other forms of breath restriction.
Guide
Responding to non-fatal strangulation and sexual choking
These guidelines are designed to improve responses to women with experiences of non-fatal strangulation and sexual choking. They were created to support the network of women’s health centres across NSW to develop their own organisational protocol and referral pathways for responding to women who have experienced non-fatal strangulation and sexual choking.