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September 2017

Women and food / Sexual harassment  / Atlas new features 

 
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Serving Up Inequality : how sex and gender impact women's relationship with food : Issues Paper

Our latest Issues Paper explores various aspects of women’s health relating to food. These include the impacts of nutritional deficiency, the links between nutrition and chronic disease, and women’s food-related behaviours. Gender is a key structural determinant of women’s health and inequality, playing out in women’s roles in relation to food, in psychosocial health and the socio-economic factors that impact on access to nutritious food.

Controversy exists in public health and health promotion about the approach and key messages that should be adopted in relation to food-related behaviours and body size to promote ‘health’ and prevent illness for women. This paper outlines various perspectives in this discourse and highlights principles and recommendations for designing health promotion programs and managing the risks of public health messages.

Access the Full issues paper, fact sheet and infographics
 

Spotlights replacing Clearinghouse Connectors

For many years our Clearinghouse Connectors have shone a spotlight on key issues relating to women's health by bringing together a curated selection of freely accessible, high quality, current research and resources. This month, WHV has introduced a new name and a whole new look!

Our first Spotlight focuses on workplace sexual harassment in Australia, and the resources available for employers and employees to address it.

Under Victoria's Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic) s 92, sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual behaviour, which could reasonably be expected to make a person feel offended, humiliated or intimidated. Women are more likely than men to be the victims of sexual harassment, and sexual harassment is more likely to occur in male-dominated workplaces. Violence prevention programs are offered by women's health services and others, to assist workplaces to prevent and address sexual harassment and other forms of violence against women.

Access the: Spotlight on Sexual harassment in the workplace - September 2017

 

Victorian Women's Health Atlas - New features and data

A major update to the Atlas in September provides new functionality and data as follows:

  • Timeslider function: Switch easily between different years (where available)
  • Compare Measure function:  Display two maps side-by-side (any two indicators)
  • Data updates: Violence against women / Teenage fertility / 2016 Census
  • New indicators: IRSD (Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage)
  • National and Statewide data: Links to data published on external sites

Access the: Victorian Women’s Health Atlas

 

Women's Health Victoria Website

We invite you to visit our website and take the time to explore what's on offer.
You will find listings for events, publications and various other resources of interest.
The full range of Spotlight and Connector topics can be viewed and accessed here.
 
Jenny Ward
Clearinghouse Information Officer
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