Story: Women’s health

More links and websites

• Ministry of Health

  The website of the Ministry of Health.

• Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Aotearoa

  This national charity provides information for healthcare providers on mental health and mothering.

• Women's Health Action

  The Women’s Health Action Trust reports on a broad range of women’s health issues.

• Women's Health organisations

  Essay first published in Women Together: a History of Women's Organisations in New Zealand in 1993. Updated in 2018 on NZHistory website.

More suggestions and sources

• Bryder, Linda, ed. A healthy country: essays on the social history of medicine in New Zealand. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1991.

• Coney, Sandra (updated by Margaret Sparrow in 2018). 'Health organisations.' In Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te motu, edited by Anne Else. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.

• Lee, Mary Isabella. The not so poor: an autobiography. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1992.

• Manning, Joanna, ed. The Cartwright papers: essays on the cervical cancer inquiry, 1987–88. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2009.