This week is women’s health week! It is run by the Jean Hailes non-profit organisation. The week is aimed at “promoting physical and emotional health and wellbeing in all its dimensions for all women in Australia throughout their lives”.
Throughout the week the message encourages workplaces, individuals and communities to share health messages by getting involved in events. Those who sign up also receive health tips, tools and informations to help get the most out of life by taking care of yourself. The goal is to inspire women to make healthier choices and learn about positive health.
Each day of the week has a theme that promotes health in order to spread related positive messages. Monday, the first day of women’s health week, was movement. It tackled the huge range of benefits that are received from physical activity – from your brain to your bones. Women following and taking in the information into their every day life throughout this week will be becoming stronger, healthier people. Knowledge of health issues that are touched upon will also result in earlier detection and treatment of many illnesses.
Getting involved is easy and can be done in a variety of ways. The easiest way is to sign up! This means that you will be kept up to date with the latest information on women’s health through a variety of resources. And it is free!
You can also consider hosting an event. Great events for the workplace include a healthy lunch, sports game, guest speaker, exercise class or walking meeting. Outside the workplace you can you can get together with your friends, family and community. Download the new event guide with everything you need to know here.
If you can cant do the above you can still show your support for Women’s Health Week by spreading the word. They have uploaded downloadable pictures that make it easy to share their messages on social media, postcards and more.
This week is important to fight the barriers to women’s health. The biggest being the “lack of time” and their health “not being a priority”. This is the time to do something for your health and spread the word for other people to do the same. Positive changes that are made this week have the potential to last a lifetime.
