Women's Health Action Links

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More areas of interest will be added on a regular basis.

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New Zealand Sites

New Zealand Government online: http://www.govt.nz - where you can access any New Zealand Government site and many other related sites eg education sites

Agencies for Nutrition Action - http://www.ana.org.nz

ALAC- Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand: http://www.alcohol.org.nz/

Alcohol and Public Health Research Unit: http://www.aphru.ac.nz - archive site - see also: Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE), and Whariki Research Group/Te Ropu Whariki

ASH - www.ash.org.nz

Auckland Rape Crisis: www.rapecrisis.org.nz

Breastfeeding - see our Breastfeeding page

Cancer Society of New Zealand Inc: http://www.cancernz.org.nz/

Community Net : http://www.community.net.nz

EDEN: http://www.eden.org.nz/

Everybody: http://www.everybody.co.nz/ - was NZ Health Online

Family Planning Association: http://www.fpanz.org.nz

Feminist Studies in Aotearoa - email contact: lynne.alice@xtra.co.nz

Guidelines Group: http://www.nzgg.org.nz

Hauora Maori - http://www.healthsite.co.nz/Hauora_Maori/

HealthEd is a new website set up by the Ministry of Health to provide health education information for the health workforce and the general public. It contains a searchable database of public health education publications and resources. Health professionals and the public can search for information about a wide range of health topics from an extensive database of health publications and can request copies of appropriate resources from their nearest health education resources provider

Health & Disability Commissioner: http://www.hdc.org.nz

Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand: http://www.hpforum.org.nz

Health Sponsorship Council: http://www.healthsponsorship.co.nz/

Healthy Women - screening site - http://healthywomen.org.nz

The NZ HPV Project: http://www.hpv.org.nz

MAMA - Mothers & Midwives Associated - http://www.mama-midwives.co.nz/

Mental Health Commission: http://www.mhc.govt.nz/

Midwives NZ website: http://www.midwives.org.nz

Ministry of Health: http://www.moh.govt.nz/

Ministry of Women's Affairs: http://www.mwa.govt.nz/

Miscarriage Support Group:http://www.miscarriagesupport.org.nz

National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges (NCIWR): http://www.womensrefuge.org.nz

National Council of Women of New Zealand: http://www.ncwnz.co.nz/

National Women's Hospital web site: http://www.adhb.govt.nz/nwhealthinfo/

NZ AIDS Foundation: http://nzaf.org.nz

New Zealand Continence Association (NZCA): http://www.continence.org.nz

NZ Drug Foundation: http://www.nzdf.org.nz/

NZ Herpes Foundation: http://www.herpes.org.nz/

The New Zealand Endometriosis Foundation Inc: http://www.nzendo.co.nz/

New Zealand Parent's Centre: http://www.parentscentre.org.nz

Ruth de Souza - Senior Research Fellow and Centre Co-ordinator for the Asian and Migrant Health Research Centre in the National Institute for Public Health & Mental Health Research within the Division of Public Health & Psychosocial Studies at Auckland University of Technology: http://www.wairua.com/ruth/

Gill Sanson, author of The Osteoporosis ‘Epidemic’ - Well Women and the Marketing of Fear : www.GillianSanson.com

Search New Zealand: http://www.searchnz.co.nz - a good New Zealand search engine

Shakti Migrant Women's Centre: http://www.shakti.org.nz/

TABS - Trauma And Birth Stress, NZ: www.tabs.org.nz, PTSD AND CHILDBIRTH, a new website

webgrrls: http://www.webgrrls.org.nz

Women's Health Information Centre - WHIC - www.womenshealthinfo.co.nz

Young Women of Aotearoa-New Zealand (YWCA): www.converge.org.nz/ywca

Overseas Women's Sites

A Friend Indeed: http://www.afriendindeed.ca/

The Australasian Menopause Society: http://www.menopause.org.au/

Canadian Women's Health Network: http://www.cwhn.ca

Cybergrrls: http://www.cybergrrl.com/

BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health: http://www.bccewh.bc.ca/

European and North American Women Action (ENAWA): http://www.enawa.org

Femina Web Search for Women: http://femina.cybergrrl.com/

Feminist Women's Health Centre http://www.fwhc.org/

Feminist site: http://www.feminist.com

International Women's Tribune Centre: http://www.iwtc.org

Medscape Women's Health: http://WomensHealth.medscape.com/Home/Topics/WomensHealth/womenshealth.html

MedWebPlus: then search for Women's Health & Lists of Internet resources http://www.medwebplus.com

Midwives Information and Resource Service - Midirs: http://www.midirs.org/

National Alliance of Breast CancerOrganisations: http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/Home

National Women's Health Resource Centre http://www.healthywomen.org

Senior Women Web: http://www.seniorwomen.com/

Society for Women's Health Research: http://www.womens-health.org/

Take Wellness to Heart : http://women.americanheart.org - the American Heart Association's Women's Website

The Women's Addiction Foundation: http://www.womenfdn.org

United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women: www.un.org/womenwatch/daw

Women First community: http://www.womenfirst.com

Women's Health & Urban Life: An International and Interdiscsplinary Journal: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/sever/journal/contents4.1.html

Women's Health Matters http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/

Women's Health Professional News Brief: http://www.womenshealthprofessional.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/womenshealthprofessional.woa

Women Connect: http://www.womenconnect.org.uk

WOMENWATCH: www.un.org/womenwatch WomenWatch is the UN Internet gateway to global information about women's concerns, progress and equality. It was initiated by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.

Health Sites

SUMS Search: http://SUMSearch.uthscsa.edu - is a new method of searching the Internet for evidence based medical and consumer information. Querying a number of databases, such as MEDLINE, and the Database of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), SUMSSearch aims to select the most appropriate source, format the search query, modify this query if too few or too many hits are found, and come up with a single document.

Community- Campus Partnerships for Health, Community-Based Participatory Research: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/commbas.html

Disability Rights Promotion International (DRPI) has launched a website: www.yorku.ca/drpi.

Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit, a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome research unit, University of Washington - School of Medicine http://depts.washington.edu/fadu/

Health Communication Network http://www.hcn.net.au/

The Health Education Electronic Forum (HEEF): http://www.healthbehavior.com

HEALTHwindows: http://healthwindows.org/

Medscape: http://www.medscape.com

Medline: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Oncolink: http://www.oncolink.upenn/edu/

Pancreatic Org: http://www.pancreatica.org/

The Cochrane Collaboration Library: http://www.cochrane.co.uk

Combined Heath Information Database (CHID): http://chid.nih.gov/

Smoking Cessation Support Group: http://www.whyquit.com

The Commonwealth Fund http://www.cmwf.org/ and then search

The WWW Virtual Library Public Health: http://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/sphcm.nsf/website/forstudents.resources.ldb

World Health Organisation (WHO) Library: http://www.who.int/library/

Journals and Publications

ingenta site - access to many publications: http://www.ingentaconnect.com

American Journal of Preventative Medicine: issues available from Ingenta here

American Journal of Public Health: http://www.apha.org/journal/

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health: http://www.phaa.net.au/anzjph/anzjph.htm

eBMJ site: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/index.dtl

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (JAMWA): http://www.jamwa.org

The Lancet: http://www.thelancet.com/

Other Sites

The Communication Initiative: http://www.comminit.com

Policy reports from leading think tanks world-wide: http://www.policypointers.org/

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	This page is under constant reconstruction. More areas of interest will be added on a regular basis. If you have a site that you would like to see listed here, please let us know. New Zealand Sites New Zealand Government online: http://www.govt.nz - where you can access any New Zealand Government site and many other related sites eg education sites Agencies for Nutrition Action - http://www.ana.org.nz ALAC- Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand: http://www.alcohol.org.nz/ Alcohol and Public Health Research Unit: http://www.aphru.ac.nz - archive site - see also: Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE), and Whariki Research Group/Te Ropu Whariki ASH - www.ash.org.nz Auckland Rape Crisis: www.rapecrisis.org.nz Breastfeeding - see our Breastfeeding page Cancer Society of New Zealand Inc: http://www.cancernz.org.nz/ Community Net : http://www.community.net.nz EDEN: http://www.eden.org.nz/ Everybody: http://www.everybody.co.nz/ - was NZ Health Online Family Planning Association: http://www.fpanz.org.nz Feminist Studies in Aotearoa - email contact: lynne.alice@xtra.co.nz Guidelines Group: http://www.nzgg.org.nz Hauora Maori - http://www.healthsite.co.nz/Hauora_Maori/ HealthEd is a new website set up by the Ministry of Health to provide health education information for the health workforce and the general public. It contains a searchable database of public health education publications and resources. Health professionals and the public can search for information about a wide range of health topics from an extensive database of health publications and can request copies of appropriate resources from their nearest health education resources provider Health & Disability Commissioner: http://www.hdc.org.nz Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand: http://www.hpforum.org.nz Health Sponsorship Council: http://www.healthsponsorship.co.nz/ Healthy Women - screening site - http://healthywomen.org.nz The NZ HPV Project: http://www.hpv.org.nz MAMA - Mothers & Midwives Associated - http://www.mama-midwives.co.nz/ Mental Health Commission: http://www.mhc.govt.nz/ Midwives NZ website: http://www.midwives.org.nz Ministry of Health: http://www.moh.govt.nz/ Ministry of Women's Affairs: http://www.mwa.govt.nz/ Miscarriage Support Group:http://www.miscarriagesupport.org.nz National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges (NCIWR): http://www.womensrefuge.org.nz National Council of Women of New Zealand: http://www.ncwnz.co.nz/ National Women's Hospital web site: http://www.adhb.govt.nz/nwhealthinfo/ NZ AIDS Foundation: http://nzaf.org.nz New Zealand Continence Association (NZCA): http://www.continence.org.nz NZ Drug Foundation: http://www.nzdf.org.nz/ NZ Herpes Foundation: http://www.herpes.org.nz/ The New Zealand Endometriosis Foundation Inc: http://www.nzendo.co.nz/ New Zealand Parent's Centre: http://www.parentscentre.org.nz Ruth de Souza - Senior Research Fellow and Centre Co-ordinator for the Asian and Migrant Health Research Centre in the National Institute for Public Health & Mental Health Research within the Division of Public Health & Psychosocial Studies at Auckland University of Technology: http://www.wairua.com/ruth/ Gill Sanson, author of The Osteoporosis ‘Epidemic’ - Well Women and the Marketing of Fear : www.GillianSanson.com Search New Zealand: http://www.searchnz.co.nz - a good New Zealand search engine Shakti Migrant Women's Centre: http://www.shakti.org.nz/ TABS - Trauma And Birth Stress, NZ: www.tabs.org.nz, PTSD AND CHILDBIRTH, a new website webgrrls: http://www.webgrrls.org.nz Women's Health Information Centre - WHIC - www.womenshealthinfo.co.nz Young Women of Aotearoa-New Zealand (YWCA): www.converge.org.nz/ywca Overseas Women's Sites A Friend Indeed: http://www.afriendindeed.ca/ The Australasian Menopause Society: http://www.menopause.org.au/ Canadian Women's Health Network: http://www.cwhn.ca Cybergrrls: http://www.cybergrrl.com/ BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health: http://www.bccewh.bc.ca/ European and North American Women Action (ENAWA): http://www.enawa.org Femina Web Search for Women: http://femina.cybergrrl.com/ Feminist Women's Health Centre http://www.fwhc.org/ Feminist site: http://www.feminist.com International Women's Tribune Centre: http://www.iwtc.org Medscape Women's Health: http://WomensHealth.medscape.com/Home/Topics/WomensHealth/womenshealth.html MedWebPlus: then search for Women's Health & Lists of Internet resources http://www.medwebplus.com Midwives Information and Resource Service - Midirs: http://www.midirs.org/ National Alliance of Breast CancerOrganisations: http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/Home National Women's Health Resource Centre http://www.healthywomen.org Senior Women Web: http://www.seniorwomen.com/ Society for Women's Health Research: http://www.womens-health.org/ Take Wellness to Heart : http://women.americanheart.org - the American Heart Association's Women's Website The Women's Addiction Foundation: http://www.womenfdn.org United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women: www.un.org/womenwatch/daw Women First community: http://www.womenfirst.com Women's Health & Urban Life: An International and Interdiscsplinary Journal: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/sever/journal/contents4.1.html Women's Health Matters http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/ Women's Health Professional News Brief: http://www.womenshealthprofessional.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/womenshealthprofessional.woa Women Connect: http://www.womenconnect.org.uk WOMENWATCH: www.un.org/womenwatch WomenWatch is the UN Internet gateway to global information about women's concerns, progress and equality. It was initiated by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women. Health Sites SUMS Search: http://SUMSearch.uthscsa.edu - is a new method of searching the Internet for evidence based medical and consumer information. Querying a number of databases, such as MEDLINE, and the Database of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), SUMSSearch aims to select the most appropriate source, format the search query, modify this query if too few or too many hits are found, and come up with a single document. Community- Campus Partnerships for Health, Community-Based Participatory Research: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/commbas.html Disability Rights Promotion International (DRPI) has launched a website: www.yorku.ca/drpi. Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit, a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome research unit, University of Washington - School of Medicine http://depts.washington.edu/fadu/ Health Communication Network http://www.hcn.net.au/ The Health Education Electronic Forum (HEEF): http://www.healthbehavior.com HEALTHwindows: http://healthwindows.org/ Medscape: http://www.medscape.com Medline: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ Oncolink: http://www.oncolink.upenn/edu/ Pancreatic Org: http://www.pancreatica.org/ The Cochrane Collaboration Library: http://www.cochrane.co.uk Combined Heath Information Database (CHID): http://chid.nih.gov/ Smoking Cessation Support Group: http://www.whyquit.com The Commonwealth Fund http://www.cmwf.org/ and then search The WWW Virtual Library Public Health: http://sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au/sphcm.nsf/website/forstudents.resources.ldb World Health Organisation (WHO) Library: http://www.who.int/library/ Journals and Publications ingenta site - access to many publications: http://www.ingentaconnect.com American Journal of Preventative Medicine: issues available from Ingenta here American Journal of Public Health: http://www.apha.org/journal/ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health: http://www.phaa.net.au/anzjph/anzjph.htm eBMJ site: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/index.dtl Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (JAMWA): http://www.jamwa.org The Lancet: http://www.thelancet.com/ Other Sites The Communication Initiative: http://www.comminit.com Policy reports from leading think tanks world-wide: http://www.policypointers.org/ Let us know of some