The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provision effective August 1, 2012 requires free preventive services for women:
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.
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Women’s Health
Women’s
health spotlights, research studies, health and wellness
resources, statistical snapshots, conferences, and events.
Food
and Drug Administration (FDA): For Women
Information
on women’s health topics, fact sheets
in English, Spanish, and Asian languages, product recalls and alerts,
pregnancy registries, research and FDA study findings, and links to women’s
health information from other government websites.
Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Women’s Health
Podcasts,
state women's health profiles, 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 2011.
HealthyWomen.org
Conditions,
diseases, and women's health issues covered under health
topics A-to-Z. Current medical information, news, tools,
expert advice, and blog posts also provided via
online “health centers” that
focus on topics such as midlife, pregnancy, parenting,
and breast health.
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): Office of Research
on Women’s
Health
Fact sheets, reports, podcasts, journal articles,
NIH research priorities for women, and interdisciplinary initiatives that focus on
gender factors in health.
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 2011 NIH Priorities for
Women’s Health.
Our
Bodies Ourselves
Women's health programs, publications, and links to the Women's Health Information and Resource Center, which includes, excerpts from Our Bodies Ourselves series of
books, Web-exclusive content, links, resources, and
health news.
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 and Health Disparities
Profiles viewable by individual state or as
a pdf publication. It is provided by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health.
WomensHealth.gov
Federal
government source for women’s health
information in English and Spanish on more than 800
health topics. Provides news, an event calendar, online publications, and links to women’s health information and organizations. organizations
and working groups. It is provided by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health.
Authors: Beth DeFrancis Sun, M.L.S., Olivia K. Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library
December 2011
These resources are provided to address language barrier issues.
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