Women's Health Faces a Healthy Future

The National Health and MedicalResearch Council has begun work on a new national health strategy for women. The National Women’s Health Strategy 2020–2030 aims to improve the health and wellbeing of all women in Australia over the next decade, especially those at greatest risk of poor health.

Minister for Health, Greg Hunt said the Strategy was the first since 2010 and was expected to be completed in 2019. ‘Women experience health challenges differently to men and we need to ensure that this is reflected in our health system’, Mr Hunt said.

"Maternal and infant health, chronic disease, healthy ageing and mental illness and other conditions affecting women will be a major focus of the new National Strategy."

He said 28 new medical research projects into women's health conditions were the first commitment of the Strategy.

"The projects will zero in on significant health challenges that affect Australian women, including breast cancer, maternal health, immunisastion rates and cardiovascular disease - a leading cause of death in Australian women," Mr Hunt said.

He said that although females born in Australia in 2015 could expect to live to 84.5 years, women continued to face health challenges. 

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