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Women's Health Australia homepage about the Women's Health Australia project Women's Health Australia staff Women's Health Australia current events Women's Health Australia surveys and data Women's Health Australia substudies information for Women's Health Australia participants University of Newcastle contact Women's Health Australia Women's Health Australia publications and presentations Women's Health Australia homepage about the Women's Health Australia project Women's Health Australia staff Women's Health Australia current events Women's Health Australia surveys and data Women's Health Australia substudies information for Women's Health Australia participants University of Newcastle contact Women's Health Australia Women's Health Australia publications and presentations

 
 


The project: Progress

1996

Women in three age groups (18-23 years, 45-40 years and 70-75 years) were selected from the Medicare database, which is maintained by the Health Insurance Commission and contains name and address details of all Australian citizens and permanent residents. This is widely regarded as the most up-to-date and complete database of Australians in existence.

These women were sent an invitation to participate in a 20 year study of health and health service use. Those who chose to participate are surveyed every three years.

More than 40,000 women responded to these invitations. The schedule for surveys is shown below.

Year
of survey

 Survey
Number
of pages
Number
of items
1996
 Survey 1 sent to Mid-age participants
24
298
1996
 Survey 1 sent to Older participants
24
276
1996
 Survey 1 sent to Younger participants
24
270
1997
  
1998
 Survey 2 sent to Mid-age participants
24
400
1999
 Survey 2 sent to Older participants
28
339
2000
 Survey 2 sent to Younger participants
32
525
2001
 Survey 3 sent to Mid-age participants
28
569
2002
 Survey 3 sent to Older participants
24
294
2003
 Survey 3 sent to Younger participants
32
559
2004
 Survey 4 sent to Mid-age participants
28
450
2005
 Survey 4 sent to Older participants
24
2006
 Survey 4 sent to Younger participants
32
2007
 Survey 5 sent to Mid-age participants
32
2008
 Survey 5 sent to Older participants
24
2009
 Survey 5 sent to Younger participants
2010
 Survey 6 sent to Mid-age participants
2011
 Survey 6 sent to Older participants
2012
 Survey 6 sent to Younger participants
2013
 Survey 7 sent to Mid-age participants
2014
 Survey 7 sent to Older participants
2015
 Survey & sent to Younger participants

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Click on the link above to view a list of current and completed substudies. Substudies are projects that investigate specific health-related topics and are conducted with younger, mid-age and older participants from the Women's Health Australia project.


To view a list of approved analyses currently in progress using Women's Health Australia data click on the link above.

See also:

 
   



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