Presentations and Papers

Authorisation was sought from all authors. Below is the list of powerpoint presentations and full papers that have been received.

Please click on the presenter name for their powerpoint presentation; and the title of their presentation for the full paper.

Wednesday 19th May

FRAN BAUM
Professor of Public Health and Director Southgate Institute of Health Society and Equity, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Commission on the Social Determinants of Health: Gendering health inequities

JO WILLMOT
Practice Leader, Indigenous Projects, Relationships Australia,
SA, Australia
Progressing the National Aboriginal Women’s Health Agenda, within the Context of the Changing Social, Economic, Cultural and Political Contexts, and other Social Determinants

HELEN KELEHER
Professor and Head, School of Primary Health Care
Department of Health Science, Peninsula Campus, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Mainstreaming Gender: How are we doing in Australia?

CECILY KELLEHER
Women’s Health Council Chair, Republic of Ireland
Professor and Head, School of Public Health and Population Sciences, University College of Dublin
Better Inside or Out? A review of the experience of Ireland’s Women’s Health Council 1997/2010

LORRAINE GREAVES
Investigator, British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Vancouver, Canada
Improving Women’s Health through Policy: The Prisms of location, sector, time and place

Session 1.1	Mental Health Practice Chair: Cathy Crawford
1.1.1	What works? Services for CALD women with co-occurring mental health and drug and alcohol issues Lynn Roarty, Sherry Saggers
1.1.2	Specialist Mental Health and Women’s Health: Working in partnership to better address the intersection(s) of mental health and violence and abuse Tracey Sloan, Zhila Javidi
1.1.3	A Socially Sensitive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Based Model for working at the Intersections of Gender, (past) Interpersonal Violence and Abuse and Mental Health/Illness Tracey Sloan, Zhila Javidi
1.1.4	Living with Bipolar Disorder: Lifespan issues for women diagnosed with bipolar disorder Meg Smith

Session 1.2	Strategic Collaborations Chair: Megan Howitt
1.2.1	Women’s Health Matters: From policy to practice The 10 Point Plan for Victorian Women’s Health Marilyn Beaumont
1.2.2	Bridging Leadership Barriers Jillian Tomlinson, Desiree Yap
1.2.3	Local Government Capacity Building Project Koula Neophytou, Bridie Hudson
1.2.4	An Enduring Partnership - Aboriginal health service and local women’s health service working together to improve Indigenous women’s health Sandy Anderson, Katrina Hishon

Session 1.3	Gender Policy and Practice Chair: Professor Dorothy Broom
1.3.1	Health Inequities: What’s gender got to do with them? Anne Kavanagh
1.3.2	Bridging Men’s and Women’s Health: From theory to policy and practice Dorothy Broom, James Smith, Kirstin Green, Megan Howitt, Valerie Dearman
1.3.3	Development and Implementation of the Victorian Policy on Violence Against Women: Challenges and enablers Lara Fergus, Rachael Green
1.3.4	Engendering Regional Health Planning: Successes, challenges and potential Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Harpa Isfeld

Session 1.4	Disordered Eating / Physical Activity Chair: Annie Flint
1.4.1	You are HOW you Eat: The use of mindful eating skills in the prevention of obesity and eating disorders Naomi Crafti, Kirsty Greenwood
1.4.2	Body Esteem Program - Healing through sharing stories A community based peer facilitated self help program for women with eating disorders Tracey Hennessey, Mandy Stringer
1.4.3	WORKSHOP ‘Healthy Active’ Bicultural Ambassadors Project: Promotingbest practice in physical activity for women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds Jan Ryan, Bernadette Masbayi, Teresa Kata

Session 1.5	Family Violence Prevention Chair: Rose Durey
1.5.1	Towards Typology: A roadmap for Australian practice and policy in intimate partner violence prevention Samara McPhedran, Jeanine Baker, Pooja Singh
1.5.2	Domestic Violence Homicide Review: Preventable deaths of women in Australia Betty Green, Betty Taylor
1.5.3	Primary Violence Prevention: Working our way out of a job? Fiona Meade
1.5.4	Domestic Violence in Pregnancy - An action research project Katie Reichstein, Anne Van Zanten
1.5.5	Family and Domestic Violence: A gendered crime? Liz Mulder, Karen Carlson

Session 1.6

Health Promotion and Advocacy
Chair: Patsy Molloy

1.6.1

WORKSHOP Advocacy Skills for Women’s Health
Janet Powell, Petra Begnell

Session 1.7	Arts and Health / Community Cultural Practice Chair: Jennie Gorringe
1.7.1	Community Arts and Health Practice: The Knitting Room Uniting Aged Care project Robyn Carney
1.7.2	Community Arts and Health Practice: Somebody’s Daughter Theatre project working with women in Victorian prisons Sally Marsden
1.7.3	“Carrying their Communities” Women’s Journeys through Arts Jacquie Maginnis
1.7.4	Participatory Action Research for Developing Culturally Effective and Culturally Safe (Indigenous) Health Promotion Resources Sandra Angus
1.7.5	Birthing Aboriginal Women Jilpia Nappaljari Jones

Session 1.8	Sexual and Reproductive Mental Health Chair: Morven Andrews
1.8.1	WORKSHOP Challenging Myths about Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Mental Health: New evidence across the life course from the Centre for Women’s Health Gender and Society, University of Melbourne Jane Fisher, Heather Rowe, Maggie Kirkman, Karen Wynter, Sonia Young, Heather McKay, Sara Holton, Amanda Cooklin

Thursday 20th May

MELANIE HEENAN
Program Manager, Preventing Violence Against Women Program, VicHealth, Melbourne, Australia
Time to Align - Primary prevention, women’s health and violence against women

PAT ANDERSON
Chairperson of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health Board, Darwin, Australia
Gender in Policy and Practice that Leads to Better Health Outcomes for Aboriginal Women, particularly in terms of Preventing Violence Against Women

Session 2.1	Violence Prevention Projects Chair: Morven Andrews
2.1.1	Bringing It All Together: Cross-sector partnerships addressing women’s mental health and family violence Sabin Fernbacher, Felicity Rorke, Sandra Morris, Deb Western
2.1.2	Maribyrnong Respect and Equity: Preventing violence against women project Georgie Hill, Rebecca Mangan
2.1.3	The Women’s (Hospital) Says No to Violence Against Women Helen Makregiorgos, Theresa Lynch, Elizabeth McLindon
2.1.4	Cut It Out Project- Lismore & District Women’s Health Centre Inc Karuna Fielden

Session 2.2	Collaborative Approaches to Violence Prevention Chair: Jo Magee
2.2.1	Working Collaboratively for the Prevention of Violence Against Women: Building the capacity of the South Australian workforce Kristina Birchmore, Sharon Lockwood, Pauline Fennell, David Kerr, Lucy Cirocco, Elaine Lloyd, Dallas Colley
2.2.2	Engaging and Working with the Corporate Sector to Prevent Violence Against Women Rose Durey
2.2.3	Workplace Policy for the Prevention of Violence Against Women Petra Begnell
2.2.4	School Based Prevention of Violence Against Women: Gippsland model Jan Tracey

Session 2.3	Responsive Models - Diverse Needs Chair: Patty Kinnersly
2.3.1	Same Sex Domestic Violence: Exploring the specific needs of lesbians in Australian DV service provision Annaliese Constable, Nancy de Castro
2.3.2	Responding to Violence Against Women with Disabilities: The policy and practice in Victoria Keran Howe
2.3.3	The Disappearing Age: Uncovering and preventing violence against older women Ludo McFerran, Sonia Laverty
2.3.4	Celebrating Diversity: An early intervention model for reducing abuse against same sex attracted young women Lucy Cirocco, Susan Arwen
2.3.5	Women’s Knowledge into Action: A framework of support Winsome Willow, Robyn Sirr, Sandi Plummer

Session 2.4	Sexualisation of Children Chair: Celina Sargent
2.4.1	From the Subtle to the Shrieking: Childhood sexualisation impacts across the lifespan Kristina Brenner, Themis Thomas

Session 2.5	Gendered Policy and Practice Chair: Mandy Stringer
2.5.1	Does it Make Sense Now? Ann Pederson, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Barbara Clow
2.5.2	Developing Gender and Diversity Lens: A guide for health and human services Meg Gulbin
2.5.3	Gender Safety Denele Crozier, Roxanne McMurray, Helen Dooley, Sue McClelland
2.5.4	Sex, Lies and Public Policy: Cervical cancer prevention and the introduction of the HPV vaccine in Aotearoa (New Zealand) Christy Parker, Jo Fitzpatrick

Session 2.6	Health Promotion and Analysis / Power Chair: Dr Heather Rowe
2.6.1	Does Combining Health Promotion and Feminist Frameworks Equal Better Health Outcomes for Women? Koula Neophytou, Kerryn Lewis, Anna Stewart
2.6.2	Gender Analysis in the Real World: Applying a gendered approach to current health issues Pam Rugkhla
2.6.3	WORKSHOP Women’s Power Cards: Creative ways of exploring women’s power Sally Camilleri, Erin Richardson

Session 2.7	Family Violence and Sexual Assault Chair: Karen Glover
2.7.1	WORKSHOP Caring, Sharing and Learning - Our way Kitty Coombes, Aunty Shirley Davis, Aunty Kitty McCormick, Joanne Holmes

Session 2.8	Family Violence and Sexual Assault Chair: Dr Margaret McLeod
2.8.1	The ‘Silent No More’ Project Shirley Kent, Christine Carriage
2.8.2	Screening for Domestic Violence in Emergency Departments: How/Does it make a difference for patients? Charmaine Power, Judith Dwyer, Janny Maddern, Laura Bahnisch, Debbie McCarthy
2.8.3	Barriers to Reporting Partner Rape Susie Reid, Debra Parkinson
2.8.4	Pets Aware: Keeping families safe by protecting the silent victims of domestic violence Elizabeth Claydon

MARSHA SAXTON Proudly Sponsored by Victorian Department of Human Services
Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst, World Institute on Disability
United States of America
Prevention of Violence Against Women with Disabilities

DONNA STEWART Proudly Sponsored by Victorian Department of Health
Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Medicine, Anaesthesia, Family and Community Medicine and Surgery, University of Toronto,and Lillian Love Chair in Women’s Health at University Health Network and the University of Toronto, Canada
Understanding and Fostering Resilient Mental Health Outcomes

Session 3.1	Law Reform and Abortion Services Chair: Petra Begnell
3.1.1	Experiences of Women over 30 Years of Age of Managing/Controlling their Fertility Prior to a Pregnancy Termination in South Australia Wendy Abigail
3.1.2	Law Reform and Abortion Services Chris Bayly
3.1.3	PANEL Reflecting on Abortion Law Reform facilitated by Petra Begnell Candy Broad, Marilyn Beaumont, Carol Richards

Session 3.2	Promoting Women’s Health Chair: Susie Reid
3.2.1	Advancing Women’s Health through the Health Inequity Mechanism Ann Pederson, Steve Chasey
3.2.2	There’s so many issues... Prioritising advocacy Kathy Faulkner, Louise Whitaker, Leanne Wood
3.2.3	Perspectives on Women’s Health Strategies Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Ann Pederson
3.2.4	Developing a Women’s Health Action Plan Emily Delahunty, Kim Boyd

Session 3.3	Feminist Services - Challenges and Strategies Chair: Jeanette James
3.3.1	Preventing Violence Against Women: Challenges for feminist practice Fiona McCormack, Deb Western, Robyn Mason
3.3.2	Accountable On Our Terms - The changing face of feminist organisations in Tasmania Wendy Meek
3.3.3	Aboriginal Women’s Health Managed by and for Aboriginal Women: The history of the South Coast Women’s Health and Welfare Aboriginal Corporation - Waminda Faye Worner, Gail Wallace, Melissa Wellington, Michelle Wellington, Bianca Perry, Marilyn Smart, Kristine Braddick
3.3.4	Steering a Feminist Women’s Health Agenda through Mainstream Health Settings Rochelle Hine, Jess Boccia, Noelle Taylor

Session 3.4

Sexual and Reproductive Health / Emergency Contraception
Chair: Cathy Mead

3.4.1

The Emergency Contraceptive Pill (Ecp) without Prescription: The Views and Practices of Australian Pharmacists
Safeera Hussainy, Kay Stewart, Colin Chapman, Angela Taft, Melissa Hobbs, Julia Shelley, Anthony Smith, Judith Lumley, Lisa Amir

3.4.2

The Emergency Contraceptive Pill Rescheduled: Women’s knowledge, attitudes and use
Melissa Hobbs, Angela Taft, Lisa Amir, Colin Chapman, Safeera Hussainy, Julia Shelley, Anthony Smith, Kay Stewart

Session 3.5	Constructing Motherhood Chair: Jenny Lawes
3.5.1	‘Some mothers do ‘ave them’: Mother blame and obesity across differing socio-economic landscapes Megan Warin, Vivienne Moore, Michael Davies, Toni Delany
3.5.2	How is Maternal Responsibility Constructed and Reproduced Through Health Related Discourse? Toni Delany
3.5.3	The Aboriginal Mothers and Daughters Gathering Program Lee Hagan, Lisa Collins
3.5.4	Strong Women, Strong Babies, Strong Culture Program Marlene Liddle

Session 3.6	Knowledge for Improving Practice Chair: Maree Hawken
3.6.1	Women’s Experience of Treatment for Gynaecological Cancer in Australia Jo Wainer, Eileen Willis, Judith Dwyer, Kei Owada
3.6.2	MOSAIC (Mothers Advocates In the Community): Outcomes and implications of twelve months mentor mother support to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant or recent mothers experiencing partner violence Angela Taft, Rhonda Small, Kelsey Hegarty, Judith Lumley, Lyndsey Watson
3.6.3	A Comparison of Community Group Participation among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Women Living in Urban Adelaide: Insights for reducing health inequities Katy Osborne, Anna Ziersch, Fran Baum, Gilbert Gallaher, Dana Shen
3.6.4	Arthritis and Depression: Tracking prevalence, impact and management in older women Lynne Parkinson

Session 3.7	Improving Primary Health Access Chair: Kathleen McLaughlin
3.7.1	Providing Primary Health Care Services to Aboriginal Women from a Community Development Approach Bev Jowle, Lynn Doherty, Valmae Walley, Lee-Anne Councillor, Nicole Elliott, Vanessa Winmar
3.7.2	Enhancing Collaboration between Mental Health and Domestic Violence Service - Is domestic violence affecting your mental health? Paula O’Brien, Leeanne Livens, Debbie Catt
3.7.3	A Collaborative Approach to Developing a Women’s Information Website in the Northern Territory Megan Howitt, Valerie Dearman, Janette Galton, Katalin Woelfel
3.7.4	Women with Disabilities can be Involved in your Service too Sue Salthouse, Robyn James

Session 3.8	Sex and Relationships Chair: Dr Ruth McNair
3.8.1	His Secret, Her Story - The need for publicly funded information and support services for women partners of gay and bisexual men in every Australian state Roxanne McMurray
3.8.2	The Experience and Positioning of Premenstrual Mood Change in the Context of Intersubjectivity: Differences between lesbian and heterosexual women Janette Perz, Jane Ussher
3.8.3	How Women’s Health Nurses can Assist Women Presenting with Sexual Difficulty Cath Hakanson

Session 3.9	Improving Access for Marginalised Groups Chair: Celina Sargent
3.9.1	‘GIRLPOWER’: A social and educative support group forwomen with intellectual and learning disabilities Renee Andreas
3.9.2	Common Threads - Addressing isolation Johanne Thiel, Biddy Searl
3.9.3	Promoting Access Equity and Culturally Appropriate Services for Refugee Women through an Integrated Service Model Susan Dunford, Jan Williams
3.9.4	The M & M show - mimmies and minnies. Yarning about breast and cervical cancer with Aboriginal women in WA Janinne Gliddon, Leanne Pilkington

Friday 21st May

ELAINE LOMAS
Operations Manager of National Aboriginal Community
Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), Canberra, Australia
Cooperation and Collaboration between NACCHO and AWHN and the Talking Circle

SENATOR CLAIRE MOORE
Senator for Queensland
Australian Government Address

Session 4.1	Leadership AND Human Rights Chair: Cathy Crawford
4.1.1	Our Rights Denied: Women with disabilities and the human right to health Karin Swift, Carolyn Frohmader
4.1.2	Balancing Human Rights to Improve Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Rose Durey, Marilyn Beaumont
4.1.3	There are No Arrivals: Points of departure for immigrant and refugee women’s advocacy Adele Murdolo, Pauline Gwatirisa
4.1.4	Indigenous Women’s Leadership: My journey Dianne Collins
4.1.5	Free Speech for All (not just the male power elite) Betty McLellan

Session 4.2	Economic Considerations Chair: Denele Crozier
4.2.1	Assessing Effects of Time Pressures on Health: Gender and life-course in time stresses, and their health impacts Dorothy Broom, Julie Smith, Lyndall Strazdins, Lyn Craig
4.2.2	Caring Costs: The impact of caring on women’s health Alison Parkinson
4.2.3	Downward Spirals: Addressing economic health for women with disabilities Susan Salthouse
4.2.4	Women’s Access to Publicly Funded and Financially Accessible Health Services Gwendolyn Gray
4.2.5	It Starts at the Door: Environmental factors and the quality of care for women Karen Grant, Pat Armstrong, Madeline Boscoe, Barbara Clow, Nancy Guberman, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Beth Jackson, Ann Pederson, Morgan Seeley

Session 4.3	Data Collection and Research Chair: Jenny Lawes
4.3.1	Evidence for Equity: Population statistics, narrative accounts and gender-sensitive indicators Beth Jackson, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Ann Pederson
4.3.2	The Index: A model for access to women’s health and wellbeing data Rose Durey
4.3.3	WORKSHOP Getting the Research Partnerships Right to Improve Health Outcomes for Aboriginal Women and Families: Learning from our journey Karen Glover, Hayley Wilson, Jan Wiebe, Stephanie Brown

Session 4.4	Sexual and Reproductive Health / Intimate Partner AND Elder Violence Chair: Megan Howitt
4.4.1	Reproductive Health: Findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health Jayne Lucke, Catherine Chojenta, Deborah Loxton
4.4.2	PANEL Violence Against Women:Findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health Angela Taft, Kelsey Hegarty, Lyn Adamson, Deborah Loxton

Session 4.5	Rural Issues and Approaches Chair: Patty Kinnersly
4.5.1	Surviving War But Still At Risk: The health needs of refugee women and girls at risk in regional Australia Effie Mitchell, Richard Hugman, Rebecca Eckert, Eileen Pittaway, Linda Bartolomei
4.5.2	The Country Closet: Rural lesbians in isolation Cathy Wheel
4.5.3	Farm Women and Health, Wellbeing and Safety Susan Brumby, Stuart Willder
4.5.4	Harnessing Hope: Doing it tough but getting there - Stories of 5 different groups of Aboriginal women in rural and remote communities Liz Hurrell, Kim Morey, April Lawrie
4.5.5	Enhanced Role Improving Outcomes for Rural Women Lorna Scott, Carolyn Enks
4.5.6	Should Gender Count? How the Royal Flying Doctor Service Rural Women’s GP Service (RWGPS) mobilises capacity for women’s health in rural and remote communities Mary-Anne Lancaster, Jacqui McKenzie

Session 4.6	Healthy Cultural Practice Chair: Deb van Velzen
4.6.1	Let’s Talk about Female Genital Mutilation Koula Neophytou, Munira Adam
4.6.2	Myths and Misconceptions and all the Other Things I Don’t Know! Linda George, Shairon Fray, Vivienne Strong
4.6.3	A New Guide to Inclusive Practice for Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health Care and Policy Ruth McNair, Catherine Barrett, Meg Gulbin
4.6.4	Lesbian Negotiating Parenting: Overcoming biologically based cultural prescriptions of parental and household roles Rhonda Brown
4.6.5	Developing Strategic Responses to Lesbian Health with a Focus on Social Inclusion Stevie Clayton, Siri May

Session 4.7	Media and Violence Chair: Mandy Stringer
4.7.1	Representing the Dead: Critical discourse analysis of print media reporting of domestic violence related deaths Charmaine Power, Elspeth McInnes, Catherine Mackenzie
4.7.2	The Impact of Sexualised Media Images on the Mental Health of Ageing Women Rochelle Hine
4.7.3	Being Savvy in Cyberspace Nikki Greenway, Charlynn Miller

Session 4.8	Models for Improving Access Chair: Patsy Molloy
4.8.1	State Aboriginal Young Women’s Committee, South Australia Kaylene Kerdel, Raquel Kerdel, Edie Carter, Violet Buckskin, Becky Miller
4.8.2	Improving Women’s Access to Health Services: The innovative role of the women’s health nurse practitioner Caterina Bortolot
4.8.3	The Minority Voice of HIV Positive Women in Australia: What are the implications for women’s mental health, well being and community development? Pam Price, Katherine Leane, Jude O’Day
4.8.4	Reproductive Health at Risk: Challenges associated with pelvic inflammatory disease in central Australia Bronwyn Silver, Alice Rumbold, Kirsty Smith, Janet Knox, Jacqueline Boyle, James Ward, John Kaldor

Posters

1	The Importance of the Nursing Role in Non Government Women’s Health Centres - Improving women’s access to publicly funded and financially accessible health services	Jo Perks
2	Mobile Women’s Health Service	Lisa Peberdy
3	Spirit of Woman: A community art in action project with Aboriginal women	Ingrid O’Loughlin
4	“Songs in the Blood” - The stories of South Australian women who live with HIV	Pam Price, Katherine Leane
5	Cervical Screening Skills Development for Nurses - A unique partnership	Sandy Anderson, Rosey Cummings, Vanessa Hamilton, Michelle Cook, Christina Inness, Lynne Walker
6	Factors Associated with Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Women in their 20s and 30s	Jayne Lucke, Melanie Watson, Danielle Herbert, Deborah Loxton
7	Symptoms Reported by Women in Mid-life: Menopausal transition or ageing?	Jayne Lucke, Janneke Berecki- Gisolf, Nelufa Begum, Annette Dobson
8	Fertility Beliefs and Contraceptive use in Women with Termination of Pregnancy	Kerry Hamptons, Wendy Lee, Harriet Radermacher, Danielle Mazza
9	Reasons for Termination of Pregnancy in Two Age-Groups	Kerry Hamptons, Wendy Lee, Danielle Mazza
10	The Effects of Genital Image and Body Image on Sexual Functioning in Women	Frances D’Arcy-Tehan
11	Influencing the Mental Health Agenda : Increasing safety and gender sensitivity in Victoria’s mixed sex psychiatric units	Heather Clarke
12	Ongoing Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A mindfulness-based approach	Helen O’Grady, Helen Duffy
13	Maternal Health and the Use of Health Services After Childbirth: A study of immigrant women from Afghanistan	Touran Shafiei, Rhonda Small, Helen McLachlan
14	Childhood Sexual Abuse: Effects on women’s intimate heterosexual relationships	Kristina Birchmore
15	Raped by a Partner: A research report and DVD	Debra Parkinson
16	Like a Virgin: Chastity, raunch and teen mental health	Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Abigail Bray
17	Emotional Boundaries Workshops for Women	Fiona Meade, Jean Lovell
18	Central West Women’s Health Centre Stalking Project	Susan Clarke-Lindfield, Kathleen Gallagher
19	It’s More than a Pap Test	Jacinta Waters, Sue Giffney, Pip Brennan
20	Cervical Screening and Sexual Orientation: Perceptions, practice and pitfalls	Linda Oliver
21	Women who Experience Mental Illness: “Power On” across the western metropolitan region of Melbourne and Tasmania.	Jo Magee, Sally Camilleri
22	Volunteering and Older People: Psychosocial and health predictors from an analysis of Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health data	Lynne Parkinson, Jeni Warburton, David Sibbritt, Julie Byles
23	Depression in Women with Toddlers and Pre-school Aged Children and Risk of Subsequent Childhood Emotional and Behavioural Problems	Lynne Giles, Melissa Whitrow, Megan Warin, Vivienne Moore
24	Fertility-awareness Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Women Seeking Fertility Assistance at two Assisted Reproductive Technology Services	Kerry Hampton, Danielle Mazza
25	Lesbians and Smoking: Understanding the higher prevalence	Jude Comfort
26	The emergence of a New Reproductive Trend: Childlessness	Melissa Graham, Erin Hill, Margaret Chegwidden, Julia Shelley
27	Thinking in the Circle: Good practice principles in working well with families impacted by parental AOD use	Fiona Reid
28	How Many Women have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome?	Wendy March, Vivienne Moore, Kristyn Willson, David Phillips, Robert Norman, Michael Davies
29	Mothers, Breast Cancer Survivorship and Physical Activity Promotion	Catherine Mackenzie
30	Women’s Lay Accounts of Mental Health: Implications for mental health promotion and reducing mental health inequities among women	Katy Osborne
31	It’s No Holiday: Can we improve the Aboriginal woman’s breast cancer journey?	Leanne Pilkington
32	Outside the Box – Flexible strategies enabling easier access for Aboriginal women to the BreasetScreen WA service	Leanne Pilkington
33	Women’s Freedom : A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Healing from Family Violence	Roshan Bhandary
34	Home Away from Home: Combating isolation in a mining town	Janet Brown
35	Women’s Mental Health and Wellbeing and its Strengths: Round and round we go - the Resilience Doughnut Tool	Lisa Speedie
36	Infant Feeding Practices of Mothers Attending a Rural Community Health Immunisation Clinic with Infants Aged Between Six and Eight Months of Age	Barbara Fetherston
37	The Impact of Advance Provision of Emergency Contraception on Induced abortion: A systematic review	Mobina Kashif, Jane Hocking, Kashif Murtaza, Louise Keogh
38	Family and Reproductive Rights Education Program in Victoria	Medina Idriess
39	Financial Insecurity In Young Adulthood: Does this play a role in older first-time motherhood, and for whom?	Emily Steele, Lynne Giles, Michael Davies, Vivienne Moore
40	Women’s Lived Experience: Life after a hysterectomy following a severe postpartum haemorrhage (preliminary findings)	Rakime Elmir, Virginia Schmied, Lesley Wilkes, Debra Jackson
41	Inconceivable: Women’s experiences trying to conceive and seeking fertility treatment	Jennifer Marino, Vivienne Moore, Michael Davies
42	To Every Woman: Money, power freedom - Credit and debt experiences of immigrant and refugee women in Australia	Carolyn Poljski, Adele Murdolo
43	Victorian Local Government Areas: How PapScreen Victoria targets women most at risk	Hiranthi Perera, Robyn Mullins, Clare Price
44	Disrupted Mothering: Understanding women’s experiences of mothering in illness through published autobiographical accounts	Tamara Vallido, Debra Jackson, Lesley Wilkes, Bernie Carter
45	Movement Workshop: Women’s bodies: Women’s health	Sharon Todd-Miller
46	Sex Workers Talk about Sex Work	Sufia Sadat Hai, Louise Keogh, Jane Hocking, Christopher Fairley
47	Towards Setting the Social Inclusion Agenda using the Social Model of Health	Patsy Molloy
48	Working Together to Improves Services for Women and their Families Affected by Aomorbid AOD and Mental Health Issues	Susan Lee
49	How is Financial Inclusion Linked to Women’s Health?	Kay Davis
50	Thinking in the Circle: Good practice principles in working well with families impacted by parental AOD Use	Fiona Reid, Jo Hodson
51	Improving capacity for disadvantaged women to participate in cervical screening in the northern Adelaide metropolitan area	Christine Gates
52	Attitudes and Knowledge of Sexuality, Contraception and pregnancy among African Australian Teenage Refugee Girls	Mimmie Claudine Ngum Chi

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Friday 20 Aug 2010

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