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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.



  

7th January 2013

The Guardian: US House votes not to reauthorise domestic violence funding bill

Violence Against Women Act (Vawa) passes Senate but is not renewed after Republicans take issue with new provisions

7th January 2013

Domestic abuse: changing the conversation A new legal protection that redefines domestic violence offers hope for women and teenagers in abusive relationships

In November 2012 10% of 999 calls to the police were about domestic violence.

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