Part 2Key roles and health documents
Key health documents: Health strategies
45Women’s Health Strategy
The Minister must prepare and determine a Women’s Health Strategy.
The purpose of the Women’s Health Strategy is to provide a framework to guide health entities in improving health outcomes for women.
The Women’s Health Strategy must—
- contain an assessment of the current state of health outcomes for women and the performance of the health sector in relation to women; and
- contain an assessment of the medium and long-term trends that will affect the health of women and health sector performance; and
- set out priorities for services and health sector improvements relating to the health of women, including workforce development.
Subsection (3) does not limit what may be included in the Women’s Health Strategy.


