Women’s Health Leadership to Enhance Community Health Workers as Change Agents

Leadership in health: effecting change.

The following article is an edited version of a paper presented to the joint Australian Private Hospitals Association and Australian Healthcare Association Conference, 'Caring with Skill', held at Southport, Queensland, on 7-8 April 1998.

Community Based Health Workers

This chapter examines the use of various categories of Community Based Health Workers as first line health workers in dealing with important health and social issues, for example with Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. It attempts to answer certain key issues: Are Community Based Health Workers valuable and cost effective? What should be their role? To whom should they be accountable? In what way shoul...

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Equipping community pharmacy workers as agents for health behaviour change: developing and testing a theory-based smoking cessation intervention

OBJECTIVE To develop a complex intervention for community pharmacy staff to promote uptake of smoking cessation services and to increase quit rates. DESIGN Following the Medical Research Council framework, we used a mixed-methods approach to develop, pilot and then refine the intervention. METHODS Phase I: We used information from qualitative studies in pharmacies, systematic literature rev...

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...