Health promotion and preventing violence against women: What does it really mean?
by Women’s Health West. Paper presented at the conference on Health promotion and prevention of violence against women: What does it really mean?, June 2006. Women’s Health West has published a report of conference proceedings held in June of this year. Launched by the Honourable Joan Kirner, the conference aimed to build the capacity of agencies to plan and implement health promotion actions committed to preventing violence against women, with emphasis on the particular character and needs of communities in Melbourne’s West. The report includes information from the Primary Care Partnerships in Melbourne’s West about what is being undertaken to promote the prevention of violence against women and actions that could be undertaken. Overviews about what has been done at a number of levels in the region are provided, including: • Research, evaluation and monitoring. Projects here include the Intimate Partner Violence and its Health Impacts, and the Family Harmony Research Project exploring
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