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5th March 2013

Incorporating women's health needs into Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

The Women’s Health and Equality Consortium (WHEC) have launched ‘Better Health for Women: How to incorporate women’s health needs into Joints Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies’. This document is intended to support health and well-being boards to improve health outcomes for women and girls by offering vital information, evidence and examples of good practice for undertaking Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) and developing Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWSs).


JSNAs and JHWSs must assess and aim to meet the needs at the local level and there are particular issues that impact on women and girls’ health and wellbeing that need to be taken into account if services are to be effective for everyone.


You can find the full report here.



  

25th March 2014

Northamptonshire domestic violence refuges reprieved until September 2014

The planned closure of refuges that protect female domestic abuse victims in Northamptonshire has been halted

25th March 2014

CSW calls for a stand-alone goal on gender equality and womens rights

Over the last two weeks, women have been defending their rights at the United Nations 58th Commission on the Status of Women

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