The South Asian Women’s Health Awareness Association

SAWHAA 'Create mild/moderate mental health awareness for south Asian women and girls in Bradford, thus building confidence, self-esteem and improving quality of life.'

Some Facts About Women and Mental Health

• Recorded rates of anxiety and depression are between one and half and two times higher in women than in men. (Department of Health, 2002, Women's Mental Health)
• Rates of self-harm (including cutting, burning and overdose) are two to three times higher in women than in men. (Department of Health, 2002, Women's Mental Health)
• At least one new mother in ten will experience postnatal depression. (Mind, 2006, Understanding postnatal depression)
• Of the 1.15 million people in the UK who have an eating disorder, 90 per cent are female. (Eating Disorders Association, 2004).