Women's Health
Resource Brief
Table of Contents
Web
Sites
Federal Offices of Women’s Health
Related MCH Library Resources
Web
Sites
Bright
Futures for Women’s Health and Wellness
Materials for consumers, clinicians, and communities
on physical activity and healthy eating and on emotional
wellness. Includes materials in Spanish and materials
for young women and for women living in rural areas.
Kaiser
Family Foundation: Women’s Health Policy
Policy
briefs, fact sheets, data, multimedia tutorials, and
downloadable graphics and tables on access to care, health
insurance coverage, reproductive health, and other topics.
Making
the Grade on Women’s Health: A National
and State-by-State Report Card
National and state
data on key indicators of women’s
health, including access to care, wellness and prevention
services, key health conditions, and living in a healthy
community. It is provided by the National Women’s
Law Center and Oregon Health and Sciences University.
Medline
Plus: Women’s Health
Overviews of women’s health issues, health-check
tools, research findings, statistics, reference tools,
and links
National
Institutes of Health (NIH): Women’s
Health
Links to women’s health information provided
by the various NIH institutes.
National
Library of Medicine (NLM): Women’s
Health Resources
Resources related to health topics, research initiatives,
and overarching themes of the 2008 NIH Priorities for
Women’s Health.
National
Women’s
Health Resource Center
Conditions,
diseases, and women's health issues covered under health
topics A-to-Z. Current medical information, news, tools,
expert advice, and message boards also provided via
online “health centers” that
focus on topics such as midlife, pregnancy, parenting,
and breast health.
National
Women’s Health Information Center
Federal
government source for women’s health
information in English and Spanish on more than 100
health topics. Provides online publications,
health tools such as checklists and calculators, updates
on events, and links to women’s organizations
and working groups.
Our
Bodies Ourselves, Women’s Health Information
and Resource Center
Excerpts from Our Bodies Ourselves series of
books, Web-exclusive content, links, resources, and
health news from the Boston Women’s Health Book
Collaborative.
Quick Health Data Online
State- and county-level data from a variety of national
and state sources. Data searchable by eleven
categories that include demographics, mortality, reproductive
health, violence, prevention, and mental health. Women’s
Health and Mortality Chartbook (2008) and Health Disparities
Profiles (2008) viewable by individual state or as
a pdf publication.
Federal Offices on Women’s
Health
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR), Office
of Women’s Health
Women’s
health spotlights, research studies, health and wellness
resources, and statistical snapshots.
Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office on
Women’s Health
Descriptions of campaigns, activities, and programs;
publications and fact sheets.
Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Women’s
Health
Information
on women’s health topics, fact sheets
in English and Spanish, product recalls and alerts,
outcomes of science program efforts, and links to women’s
health information from other government Web sites.
Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Office
of Women’s Health
Podcasts,
materials on the Bright Futures for Women’s
Health and Wellesss program, women’s health data
books, and reports on women’s health in public
health school and pharmacy school curricula. The latest
data book is: Women’s
Health USA 2008
National
Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Research
on Women’s
Health
Fact sheets, reports, podcasts, journal articles,
and interdisciplinary initiatives that focus on
gender factors in health.
Related MCH Library Resources
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By Topic
Authors: Beth DeFrancis Sun, Olivia K. Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library
November 2008
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