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Annotation: This report presents findings on the state of women's and family health benefits in the workplace based on two surveys conducted in October-November 2024. It addresses challenges facing employees and employers, including rising healthcare costs, burnout among working parents, and increased anxiety around reproductive health. The report highlights how companies are responding through expanded benefits, with 69% planning to increase family health benefits vendors in the coming years. It discusses the benefits of offering comprehensive women's and family health support, including improved employee retention and reduced healthcare costs. The report includes specific statistics on employer and employee priorities, testimonials from benefits leaders, and guidance for designing effective family benefits programs. Sections cover topics such as fertility support, parenting challenges, men's reproductive health, and the role of digital health solutions in improving outcomes.

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Keywords: Employer health costs, Family support services, Health Benefits Plans, Employee, Insurance benefits, Maternal health, Perinatal care, Reproductive health services, Statistics, Surveys, Trends, Women's health, Workplace health promotion

Annotation: This paper affirms the National WIC Association’s support of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children’s (WIC’s) commitment to promote oral health to program participants. Topics include oral health in young children, oral health in women, and racial and ethnic disparities in oral health. For each topic, ways that WIC staff can help are presented. Promoting oral health in the WIC program is also discussed.

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Keywords: Ethnic factors, Federal programs, Health promotion, Infant health, Low income groups, Nutrition programs, Oral health, Racial factors, Women's health, Young children

Annotation: This toolkit provides information for health professionals about how to create an integrated health system that incorporates oral health. It discusses how to create an integration plan and factors to consider when integrating care. Integration care models for women’s health, early childhood health, older adult health, chronic disease, and behavioral health are provided. Each model includes factors to consider and practical examples.

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Keywords: Behavioral medicine, Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Collaboration, Health promotion, Older adults, Oral health, Service integration, Women’s health, Young children

Annotation: This report presents recommendations for improving women's health across the life course in the United Kingdom. It calls for the creation of national women's health strategies and outlines key areas for action, including access to information, contraception and abortion services, prevention of health issues, and addressing violence against women. The report discusses fragmentation of services, funding challenges, and the need for better data collection and use. It makes specific recommendations on topics such as cervical screening, workplace policies for women's health issues, and pelvic floor dysfunction awareness. The document includes an executive summary, detailed chapters on different aspects of women's health, and numerous policy recommendations for government and health system stakeholders.

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Keywords: Women's health, Women's health promotion, Women's health services

Annotation: This brochure for pregnant women focuses on the importance and safety of oral health care during pregnancy. It also includes information about the age 1 dental visit for children and how to find a dentist. The brochure is printed in English on one side and in Spanish on the other.

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Keywords: Consumer education materials, Dental caries, Disease prevention, Health promotion, Infant health, Infants, Oral health, Oral health care, Oral hygiene, Parent education, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Preventive health visits, Spanish language materials, Women's health

Annotation: This website describes a national campaign to increase the number of women who plan their pregnancies and engage in healthy behaviors before becoming pregnant. The website also provides resources for promoting preconception health to women in communities including buttons, checklists, press releases, talking points, e-cards, posters, videos, public service announcements, podcasts, and an image library.

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Keywords: Campaigns, Family planning, Health promotion, Life course, Multimedia, National initiatives, Preconception care, Public awareness materials, Reproductive health, Women's health

Annotation: This preconception care fact sheet provides an explanation of what preconception care is and why it is necessary and gives examples of preconception interventions and opportunities for state health agencies.

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Keywords: Health education, Health promotion, Infant health, Intervention, Preconception care, Pregnancy, Reproductive health, Screening, State initatives, Women's health

Annotation: This video presents the stories of four hospitals as they journey toward Baby-Friendly status. The video was produced as part of the Best Fed Beginnings quality-improvement project, a nationwide effort to help hospitals improve maternity care and increase the number of Baby-Friendly hospitals in the United States. The video features the Barnes-Jewish Hospital's (Missouri) work on patient-centered care, the Presbyterian Hospital's (New Mexico) efforts to increase skin-to-skin contact, the Christiana Hospital's (Delaware) focus on staff buy-in, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital's efforts to catalyze the community by changing misconceptions about breastfeeding.

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Keywords: Breastfeeding promotion, Breastfeeding promotion programs, Communities, Hospital programs, Infant health, Newborn infants, Quality assurance, Reproductive health, Women's health

Annotation: This document, which is focused on the importance of breastfeeding and breastfeeding promotion, describes a plan for changing breastfeeding practices in Illinois. The document discusses the evidence base for breastfeeding, including benefits for mothers, psychosocial benefits, and benefits for families and communities. Illinois breastfeeding data are also presented.

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Keywords: State surveys, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Communities, Families, Illinois, Infant health, Mental health, Statistical data, Women's health

Annotation: This website offers information to help African-American new mothers and their families understand the benefits of breastfeeding, make breastfeeding work, and get the support they need to breastfeed their infants.Topics include planning ahead, breastfeeding myths, overcoming challenges, finding support, and fitting breastfeeding into women's lives. One woman's breastfeeding story is also presented, and links to related information are included.

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Keywords: Blacks, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Consumer education materials, Families, Infant health, Mothers, Parent support services, Public awareness campaigns, Women's health

Annotation: This toolkit, which contains information about breastfeeding promotion in the inpatient setting, is designed to assist health care organizations and hospital teams in planning and implementing performance-improvement projects. The toolkit is organized around five primary components of performance improvement in hospital-based breastfeeding support: leadership engagement, planning and ongoing improvement, measurement strategy, keeping patients at the center, and sustainability. The toolkit provides information on evidence for breastfeeding benefits, Kaiser Parmanente's journey, building for successful change, and innovative ideas for breastfeeding support and promotion.

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Keywords: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Hospital programs, Infant health, Leadership, Program improvement, Women's health

Annotation: This video provides a tour of the Mother's Milk Bank of North Texas. The video explores how the milk bank works, explains why breastfeeding is important for mothers and infants, and discusses why donation milk is important for helping families to support breastfeeding. The video describes the screening and approval process for donors and explains how milk is tested, stored, mixed, bottled, pasteurized, and released to hospitals for use—primarily in neonatal intensive care units.

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Keywords: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Community programs, Hospitals, Infant health, Mothers, Multimedia, Neonatal intensive care units, State programs, Texas, Videos, Women's health

Annotation: This four-part video series aims to provide information for current and former Somali refugee women about their bodies and health, so they can make the choices that are right for them. Topics include the reproductive system; infections, relationships, and cancer; pregnancy and birth; and other female health issues.

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Keywords: Consumer education materials, Audiovisual materials, Health promotion, Minority health, Refugees, Reproductive health, Videos, Women's health

Annotation: This document describes how the Federal Partners Committee on Women and Trauma's efforts to promote, adopt, and implement trauma-informed approaches have enhanced the effectiveness of a wide range of government services and supports. It also demonstrates the impact of the committee's coordinated cross-agency efforts. Contents include the committee's model for cross-agency collaboration, information about the importance of survivor voice and participation, a common framework for implementing a trauma-informed approach, and progress reports from each participating federal agency. Topics include the impact of trauma, how a trauma-informed approach can make a difference, major accomplishments, new directions and collaborations, and resources.

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Keywords: Collaboration, Federal agencies, Federal initiatives, Health promotion, Models, Participation, Service coordination, Trauma care, Women's health

Annotation: This brochure, which is geared toward working mothers who are breastfeeding, provides information about how to successfully breastfeed while working outside the home. The brochure discusses why it is important to continue breastfeeding after returning to work, introducing a bottle, choosing child care, rights of breastfeeding women, pumping and storing breastmilk at work, creating a back-to-work plan, and overcoming challenges. The brochure is available in English and Spanish.

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Keywords: Bottle feeding, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Child care, Consumer education materials, Infant health, Parent child relations, Parent rights, Spanish language materials, Women's rights, Working mothers

Annotation: This resource provides answers to questions that women frequently ask about oral health. Topics include common problems and how they may be linked to non-oral-health problems, oral hygiene and dental visits, pregnancy, infant health, and cancer treatment. Contact information for organizations that provide relevant information is also included.

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Keywords: Disease prevention, Educational materials, Health promotion, Infant, Oral health, Oral health care, Pregnancy, Women's health

Annotation: This report comprises summaries of 16 key informant interviews about existing programs and innovative strategies for preconception health and promotion throughout the United States. The report describes the methods, discusses strategies being used (such as integrating preconception health into clinical settings, vitamin giveaways, and provider education and training), and discusses relevant formative research and other work.

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Keywords: Health promotion, Preconception care, Programs, Reproductive health, Research, Women's health

Annotation: This issue brief reports the activities of health plans and foundations that are addressing preconception health. The brief examines the role of private health plans and their philanthropic foundations in promoting preconception health, including the motivations for their interest in preconception care and their strategies to increase access to preconception care and document how these approaches are reaching women of childbearing age. The brief concludes with a summary of remaining barriers, along with potential strategies for overcoming the barriers and promoting preconception health. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Access to health care, Barriers, Health insurance, Health promotion, Philanthropy, Preconception care, Women's health

Annotation: This consensus statement identifies key benchmarks of safe, healthy, and normal physiologic childbirth and is intended to assist maternity care providers, women, policymakers, and payers in protecting, promoting, and supporting human childbearing physiology and to avoid overuse of interventions to achieve better care, better health, and lower costs. In addition to identifying benchmarks, the consensus statement defines normal physiologic birth and identifies factors that facilitate or disrupt it.

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Keywords: Childbirth, Costs, Health promotion, Prevention, Public policy, Reproductive health, Standards, Women's health

Annotation: This webcast is the third installment of the monthly "Who's Leading the Leading Health Indicators?" series. The series highlights organizations using evidence-based approaches to address a Healthy People 2020 leading health indicator (LHI) topic. The webcast provides an overview of the March LHI topic—maternal, infant, and child health—and provides information about maternal, infant, and child activities in DHHS's region IV. Also discussed is how the Kentucky Department of Public health, with the help of national, state, and local partners, has successfully combatted rising rates of premature birth.

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Keywords: Child health, Collaboration, Federal programs, Health promotion, Healthy People 2020, Infant health, Kentucky, Local programs, Premature infants, Prematurity, Prevention, State programs, Trends, Women's health