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replication as follows:

market, the environment and civil society.

This approach is necessary to ensure equal

1. The Strategy has a human rights approach

access to economic resources and to value

which means that women’s rights and the

unpaid care through the provision of public

right to health are integral to all priorities

services.

and actions. This also includes ending

Women’s Health in Ireland — Evidence Base for the development of the Women’s Health Action Plan

6. Ensuring effective participation of women

interestingly adopts a dual priority approach that

is the final crucial principal. The Strategy

recognises the importance of:

recognises that ‘Women are powerful actors

a) Addressing immediate and future health

for change’ and ‘supports their leadership of,

challenges by maintaining and developing

and participation in, decision-making’. The

health services and prevention programs to

Strategy acknowledges that to be consistent

treat and avoid disease through targeting

with the guiding principle of a human

health issues that will have the greatest

rights-based approach, participation must be

impact over the next two decades.

genuine, transparent and representative, and

should employ mechanisms for securing the

b) Addressing the fundamental ways in which

involvement of all girls and women, including

society is structured which impacts on

those who are excluded.

women’s health and wellbeing. This will

involve addressing health inequities through

4.6.2 Australia’s Women’s Health Policies

broader reforms addressing the social

determinants of health.

Australia has a both a national federal women’s

The policy358 identifies four priority health issues

health policy and a series of state (there are six

as follows:

states in Australia. Each state has its own state

constitution, which divides the state’s government

1. Prevention of chronic diseases through the

into the same divisions of legislature, executive,

control of risk factors; targeting chronic

and judiciary as the federal government) level

disease such as cardiovascular disease,

women’s (health) strategies (Queensland Women’s

diabetes and cancer, as well as risk factors

Strategy 2016-21, has a specific section within it

such as obesity, nutrition, physical inactivity,

on Women’s health and wellbeing352 while the