Get togethers Our workshops, seminars, meetings and conferences provide the latest information from expert speakers and leaders, as well as giving the opportunity for women to network. Support groups on specific topics are set up from time to time. Risk versus Choice' seminar, May 2000, was well-attended by interested midwives. A quarterly newsletter covering the controversies, campaigns and happenings in women's health within New Zealand and from overseas. Women's Health Action focuses primarily on the health of well women, providing the support and information that enables them to make decisions about their health that are right for them.
Resources are evidence-based.
Women's Health Action adopts a health promotion approach, recognising the economic, social and political factors that impact on the health of women. Here are WHA staff and Trustees with leader of the Greens, Jeannette Fitzsimons, guest speaker at our annual Suffrage Day breakfast, 2000. Collectively, they worked 60 hours per week during the year. We subcontracted writers, researchers and health consultants as required. Grants given in previous years by the ASB Community Trust and the New Zealand Law Foundation enabled us to prepare new publications.