Health and Family Planning

Miracle Beginnings http://www.miraclebeginnings.com.au/ My goal is to encourage and support mothers to step up and create their best life. To confront emotional scars, which can be a scary process, but well worth the breakthrough to become the best person you can be, which will then create the best mother you can be.

Mental Health
http://www.mhca.org.au/index.html

Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA) is the peak, national non-government organisation representing and promoting the interests of the Australian mental health sector, committed to achieving better mental health for all Australians. Members include representatives of mental health service consumers, carers, special needs groups, clinical service providers, public and private mental health service providers and state/territory mental health peak bodies. It aims to promote mentally healthy communities, educate Australians on mental health issues, conduct research into mental health issues and reform Australia's mental health system.

Womens Health
http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Women_s_Health

Healthinsite is a website set up to produce reliable, up-to-date information for health matters. Australians are increasingly turning to the Internet as a source of health information. Healthinstie is in line with the Government's strategy of delivering services via the Internet. HealthInsite allows health information to be provided to all Australians either directly or through health professionals and service providers. It is a single entry point to quality information from leading health information providers, including peak health organisations, government agencies and educational and research institutions.

Cancer Screening
http://www.cancerscreening.gov.au/

This webiste will give you information about the National Cervical Cancer, Breast Cancer and Bowel Cancer screening intiatives.

Family Planning and Sexual Health
http://www.shfpa.org.au/

Sexual Health and Family Planning Australia (SH&FPA) is a national federation of eight independent state and territory sexual health and family planning organisations. This webiste can give you information for all the Family Planning / Sexula Health departments uin your state.

Sexual Health
http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Sexual_Health

Sexual health involves many things, including: knowing about your body and how it works; understanding the physical, social and emotional changes that come with puberty, pregnancy and ageing; keeping yourself and others safe; and finding information and support when things go wrong, such as an unplanned pregnancy or sexually transmitted infection. The information contails all topic here - from responding to children's sexual explorations and behaviours through to an understanding of how to maintain safe and happy adult relationships.

Dark Side of Tanning
http://www.darksideoftanning.com.au

There’s nothing healthy about a tan. The Dark Side of Tanning is a Cancer Institute NSW (www.cancerinstitute.org.au) campaign that shows the dangers of tanning and the damage to the skin that can happen even before it starts to show signs of burning. It reveals the damage that occurs at a cell level and how this can lead to a deadly melanoma. The website provides more detailed information on tanning, melanoma and sun protection measures.

Girls Night In 2008
http://www.girlsnightin.com.au/

Join us for Girls Night In this October and besides having a great night in with your girlfriends you will feel great knowing that you are playing an important role in the quest to defeat women's cancer. As a host, all you have to do is invite your girlfriends around to your place for a night in. Then simply have everyone donate the money they would have spent going out, to the Cancer Council.

Baby Express
http://www.babyexpress.com.au

Roses Only
http://rosesonly.com.au

How do you measure up?
http://www.measureup.gov.au

1 in 2 Australian adults is overweight. And, irrespective of your height or build, if your waistline is getting bigger it could mean you are at increased risk of chronic diseases like some cancers, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

The Womens Healing Org.
https://www.womenshealingorg.com/

The Womens Healing Org International (WHOI) provides resources, information, articles, audios, videos and tips to enable you to successfully balance your health, work and personal life and your finances. Our site will cover issues of relevance to women at all stages of life, from nutrition facts, fitness, balance in work life, working from home, health and wellness in the workplace, personal finance and budgeting, financial literacy, relationships, health and beauty, symptoms of stress, spirituality, time management techniques, family, divorce to mental wellness issues and much more.

Managing Menopause
http://www.managingmenopause.org.au

Between the ages of 48 and 55 years most women experience changes to their body that can be associated with menopause, which is literally the very last menstrual period in a woman's life. Menopause may be part of a number of adjustments that women experience at midlife. At the same time a woman is beginning to experience signs and symptoms of menopause, she is usually approaching her fifties. Managing menopause can take place amidst changing family roles, looking after aging parents, thinking about retirement and wondering what she will do with the rest of her life.

Created: 16-August-2007
Modified: 13-April-2009