Your health records are an important set of documents about you. These information sheets explain who has access to your records, and what your rights are.

Women's Health Victoria promotes access to independent, quality women's health information. These pages explain your rights to information about procedures or medications, and provide information on rights in mental health services.

QVWC staff and partners assess health information to ensure its reliability, validity and trustworthiness.  All information appearing on this site follows these principals, and women can use the guidelines contained here to assess whether what they read on the Internet or elsewhere is factual.

This website is an excellent starting point if you have had an unsatisfactory experience with health services.  It contains information on how to make a complaint and how best to resolve disputes.

This resource discusses how the Privacy Act affects health interactions and protects your health information.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) provides guidelines on acceptable ethics in health research. This is a useful resource for health professionals and researchers.

This page provides some basic information about consumer participation in health. Its main focus is on Victorian resources, such as key relevant policy documents, examples of participation in practice, and research on consumer participation. The page can be used on its own, or as a starting point before progressing to the Participate in Health site for a broader range of materials.

The Consumers' Health Forum (CHF) is a national organisation that gives a voice to consumers about their rights in health care.  Common questions about health rights are answered on this site. It also contains information on what to ask before consenting to treatment, how to prepare for a visit to your health care provider, and how to complain if you have had a bad experience with a health service.

This article, entitled Why women's health?, gives an overview of why the field of women's health is important, especially in the social context of women's lives.