Women’s Health Resources

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General Health Information

The Office on Women's Health -
Literature Review on Effective Sex- and Gender-Based Systems/Models of Care

http://www.womenshealth.gov

A CENTURY OF WOMEN’S HEALTH:1900–2000

http://www.womenshealth.gov/TimeCapsule/century/index.htm

National Women’s Health Information Center

http://www.4woman.gov

This web site and toll-free call center were created to provide FREE, reliable health information for women everywhere.

Healthy People 2010: US

http://www.healthypeople.gov/

Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.

MCH Glossary and acronyms

http://www.soph.uab.edu/mch-leadership/GLOSSARYVNov02.pdf

Glossary of Maternal and Child Health terms and acronyms

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships.

DHHS Office on Women’s Health

http://www.4woman.gov/owh/

The Office on Women's Health (OWH) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the government's champion and focal point for women's health issues, and works to redress inequities in research, health care services, and education that have historically placed the health of women at risk.

American Public Health Association

http://www.apha.org/

The American Public Health Association (APHA) is the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing more than 50,000 members from over 50 occupations of public health.

HRSA Office of Women’s Health

http://www.hrsa.gov/WomensHealth/

HRSA provides national leadership, program resources and services needed to improve access to culturally competent, quality health care.

HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau

http://mchb.hrsa.gov/programs/default.htm

The Children's Bureau was established in 1912. In 1935, the U.S. Congress enacted Title V of the Social Security Act, which authorized the Maternal and Child Health Services programs and provided a foundation and structure for assuring the health of American mothers and children.

The Ad Council

www.adcouncil.org

The Ad Council produces, distributes and promotes thousands of public service campaigns on behalf of non-profit organizations and government agencies in issue areas such as improving the quality of life for children, preventative health, education, community well being, environmental preservation and strengthening families.

Public Health Foundation

http://www.phf.org/infrastructure/

For more than 30 years, this national, non-profit organization has been creating new information and helping health agencies and other community health organizations connect to and more effectively use information to manage and improve performance, understand and use data, and strengthen the workforce.

Funding

The Foundation Directory

http://fdncenter.org/

Founded in 1956, the Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy and is
dedicated to serving grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the
media, and the general public.

Data/Statistics/Research

National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

As the Nation’s principal health statistics agency, NCHS compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of our people. NCHS is a unique public resource for health information–-a critical element of public health and health policy.

PUBMED

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Healthy Women: State Trends in Health and Mortality

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/healthywomen.htm

The NCHS electronic data warehouse on minority and women's health. This site was developed by NCHS with support from the Office on Women's Health.

Women’s Health Indicator Database

http://www.4woman.gov/statedata/

National, regional, state and county data are available by gender, race, ethnicity, and age. You can make your own custom tables, graphs, and maps.

NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health

http://www4.od.nih.gov/orwh/

The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) serves as a focal point for women's health research at the NIH. The ORWH promotes, stimulates, and supports efforts to improve the health of women through biomedical and behavioral research on the roles of sex (biological characteristics of being female or male) and gender (social influences based on sex) in health and disease.'

World Health Organization data

http://www.who.int

The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.

US Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov/

The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. We honor privacy, protect confidentiality, share our expertise globally, and conduct our work openly. We are guided on this mission by our strong and capable workforce, our readiness to innovate, and our abiding commitment to our customers.

National Health Information Center-National Health Observances

http://www.healthfinder.gov/library/nho/

Health observances are days, weeks, or months devoted to promoting particular health concerns. This planning guide developed by the National Health Information Center lists national health observances, along with the sponsoring organizations and information about supporting materials that will be available.

H.E.R.E. Health Education Resource Exchange

http://www3.doh.wa.gov/here/default.html

A clearinghouse of public health education and health promotion projects, materials and resources in the State of Washington. This web site is designed to help community health professionals share their experience with colleagues around the state.

SMART: Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss-smart/index.asp

BRFSS data can be used to identify emerging health problems, establish and track health objectives, and develop and evaluate public health policies and programs.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

http://www.merriamwebster.com

Visitors gain access to the full-text of Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus as well as a wealth of language related information including The Word of the Day, a daily word game, and an online bookstore.

Non-profit/For-Profit Agencies

Melissa DATA

http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htm

Find more up-to-date address and ZIP Code related information than anywhere else on the web.

Society for Women’s Health Research

http://www.womens-health.org

The Society for Women’s Health Research is the nation’s only non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health of all women through research, education and advocacy. The Society encourages the study of sex differences between women and men that affect the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.

National Council for Research on Women

http://www.ncrw.org

Strives to generate and facilitate collaborative research, communication, and cooperative exchange among member centers and affiliates; to expand national and international networks of organizations and individuals and disseminate current information on research, policy and action initiatives, funding opportunities, and other resources; and to promote visibility for feminist research and analysis and build stronger links between research, policy, action, and the media.

Kaiser Family Foundation

http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/index.cfm

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.

The Commonwealth Fund

http://www.cmwf.org/

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The Fund is dedicated to helping people become more informed about their health care, and improving care for vulnerable populations such as children, elderly people, low-income families, minority Americans, and the uninsured.

Alan Guttmacher Institute:

http://www.agi-usa.org/

The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. AGI publishes Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, International Family Planning Perspectives, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy and special reports on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Women Can Do (CT Education/Awareness Campaign)

http://www.womancando.org

Some Things Only a Woman Can Do is an education campaign launched by the Society for Women's Health Research to provide women with accurate information about volunteering for medical research.

Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health

http://www.atmch.org/Links/links.htm

The Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health (ATMCH) aims to provide leadership in education, research, and service in the field of maternal and child health. ATMCH offers an interdisciplinary forum through which MCH faculty from schools of public health and other institutions of higher learning can share the knowledge, ideas, and skills essential to educating students, advancing MCH research, and applying research results to MCH policies, programs, and services.

Pfizer

http://www.pfizer.com/main.html

Pfizer Inc and The Pfizer Foundation's charitable giving programs provide grants through targeted initiatives focused primarily on health care and science education.

Bristol Myers SquibFoundation

http://www.bms.com/

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation has existed for nearly a half century. Its aim is to align the focus areas of the Foundation with the most pressing needs of the society in which our company operates. The Foundation’s activities support a broad range of programs that address important health matters and educational issues around the world.

Health Policy

National Women’s Law Center (US Women’s Health Report Card)

http://www.nwlc.org/display.cfm?section=health

The Center’s Health and Reproductive Rights Program is dedicated to ensuring access to appropriate affordable and unencumbered health care, including reproductive health care, for all women, particularly for low-income women.

Institute for Women’s Policy and Research

http://www.iwpr.org

The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families. IWPR focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, health and safety, and women's civic and political participation.

Women’s Policy Inc.

http://www.womenspolicy.org/caucus/

WPI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose sole focus is to help ensure that the most informed decisions on key women's issues are made by policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels.

Louisiana Specific

Resource guide for NOLA area

Resource Guide

Louisiana Office of Public Health/Maternal Child Health Program

http://www.oph.dhh.state.la.us/maternalchild/index.html

Louisiana’s Section of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) works to assure that pregnant women, women of childbearing age, infants, children, and youth in Louisiana have access to high quality primary and preventive health care services.

Louisiana Health Report Card 2003

http://www.oph.dhh.state.la.us/

This document reports on the overall state of health in Louisiana.

Louisiana Office of Public Health Data and Statistics

http://www.oph.dhh.state.la.us/Data_and_Stats.html

Links to data and statistics relevant to Louisiana.

Healthy People 2010: Louisiana

http://www.oph.dhh.state.la.us/healthylouisiana2010/docs/Final_HP_2010_CoverReport.pdf

The Louisiana Healthy People 2010 Report to the Legislature is a review of the current health status of Louisianians across our state and is a challenge to lawmakers and policymakers, as well as our citizenry, to create a healthier state by focusing on those leading health indicators that result in morbidity and mortality.

Louisiana Public Health information and data

http://www.dhh.state.la.us./

The mission of the Department of Health and Hospitals is to protect and promote health and to ensure access to medical, preventive, and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the State of Louisiana.

Louisiana State Legislature

http://www.legis.state.la.us

The Louisiana Constitution establishes the legislative branch as one of the three coordinate branches of state government.

Office of the Governor

http://gov.louisiana.gov

Website pertaining to the current governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco.

Greater New Orleans Community DataCenter

http://www.gnocdc.org/

The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center works to expand the ability of the local nonprofit community to access and strategically use local information in decision-making and grantwriting.