Every year Women’s Health Australia produces a newsletter for the women who are taking part in the study. The newsletter describes current events at Women’s Health Australia and features recent findings from the project which we think may be of particular interest to participants.

Research has found that women who never drink alcohol are in poorer health than those who have up to two drinks a day. However drinking three or more drinks a day tips the health scales the other way.

The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, now known as Women’s Health Australia, is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care and has been running since 1995. The aim of the project is to collect scientifically valid information that is relevant to the development of health policy, so that Commonwealth and State Government Departments of Health can base policy and practice in women’s health on current data and accurate information.

The study is strongly multidisciplinary and takes a broad, biopsychosocial, perspective of women’s health as embedded in a social and family context. This publication provides an introduction and overview to the project. The first chapters outline the overall research design and introduce the three cohorts of women. The following sections provide snapshots of the various perspectives on women’s health which the project team have taken.

See website for a list of published reports