Assessing women's health needs.
It has been argued that women have specific health needs aside from those of the community as a whole. As a consequence, a move towards increased "earmarked" funding for women's health has occurred. However, some debate exists about the areas of women's health that are most in need of additional funding and about appropriate mechanisms to determine priority areas. The present study explored community perceptions of women's health needs. A sample of 157 women, who had been selected at random, were asked a series of questions about the health and social problems that are experienced by women. The questions assessed the self-reported prevalence of the problems and asked women to nominate those problems which were priorities for them personally, and for Australian women in general. The areas that were identified as priorities by this community survey were compared with those that were identified by means of other methods of needs analysis.
Redman
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Newcastle, NSW.
Hennrikus
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Bowman
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Sanson-Fisher
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D005380:Financing, Government; D006292:Health Priorities; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006302:Health Services Research; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D014930:Women