IJE Advance Access originally published online on May 13, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(5):987-991; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi098
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Cohort Profile: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
1 School of Psychology and School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia
2 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia
3 School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland, Australia
4 Research Centre for Gender and Health, University of Newcastle, Australia
5 Centre for Research and Education on Ageing, University of Newcastle, Australia
* Corresponding author. School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072 Australia. E-mail: c.lee@psy.uq.edu.au
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The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH), also known as Women's Health Australia, has its history in the women's movement of the 1980s. At that time, activists successfully pressured governments in Australia, at both the State and Federal levels, to develop women's health policies. Part of the development process of the National Women's Health Policy, which was launched in 1989, involved a national consultation with women's organizations representing more than a million women.1 From this consultation the idea of a national longitudinal study on women's health emerged. As with the National Policy generally, the longitudinal study was to be premised on a social rather than a narrowly focused medical approach to health. The study was envisaged as a strategy to enable women to gain greater power over shaping the nature of health care. This was given impetus by studies at the time showing that it was not major medical
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How often have they been followed-up, and what has been measured? |
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What is attrition like? |
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What are the main strengths and weaknesses? |
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Can I get hold of the data? Where can I find out more? |
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