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Annotation: This webinar, broadcast June 6, 2013, discusses the life course theory and the capacity of the approach to address health inequalities for African American women as experienced by the Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition, The Magnolia Project. It also discusses strategies for integrating the life course approach into a community-based program, and describes challenges and opportunities to integrating this approach into daily practice.

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Keywords: Audiovisual materials, Blacks, Case studies, Florida, Health care disparities, Health status disparities, Healthy Start, Life cycle, Women's health

Annotation: This document explores a coordinated health systems approach to long-term cessation outcomes for women. The issue brief contains eight recommendations; key resources; and examples from states including Alabama, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Utah. Topics include training and technical assistance to health professionals, quitline services, coordinated media campaigns, customized programs, points of intervention, cessation benefits in health plans, service integration, and tobacco-control policies that augment tobacco cessation for women.

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Keywords: Case studies, Pregnant women, Smoking cessation, Smoking during pregnancy, State initiatives, Tobacco use, Women's health

Annotation: This issue brief explores the importance of maternal and infant health disparities as a public health concern. It discusses racial and ethnic disparities, economic impact, infant mortality, maternal disparities, prenatal care, geographical disparities and telemedicine, and breastfeeding, It also highlights programs that states have implemented to deal with these issues.

Keywords: Case studies, Economic factors, Ethnic factors, Infant health, Infant mortality, Prenatal care, Prevention, Racial factors, State programs, Women's health

Annotation: This technical implementation brief describes a tool that calculates the financial value of preventive health benefits for women of child-bearing age and children. In this brief, a simulated business case study is used to describe how an employer might use the calculator to analyze the cost-savings impact that implementing preventive benefits may have on direct health care costs as well as on indirect health and productivity costs. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Business, Case studies, Child health, Costs, Employee benefits, Health care reform, Health care systems, Models, Preventive health services, Women's health

Annotation: This report presents the results of an assessment conducted by the Urban Institute and the National Academy for State Health Policy on the current state of the art of Medicaid program efforts to reach out to and enroll pregnant women into coverage. The report discusses trends and policies and provides survey findings, summaries of five states' models, and in-depth case studies of Louisiana and New York.

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Keywords: , State programs, Case studies, Enrollment, Infant health, Louisiana, Low income groups, Medicaid, New York, Outreach, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Public policy, Research, Trends, Women's health

Annotation: This paper examines factors such as the rising cost of health care and accessibility to insurance that prevent women from receiving health care. It describes the greater medical debt and overall medical cost differences burdening women. Charts throughout the document illustrate data also presented in the appendix. A podcast of the paper is available.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Health care costs, Health insurance, Women's studies

Annotation: This issue brief highlights strategies in addressing depression and describes the efforts of three local health departments (LHDs) working to integrate women's mental health activities into existing services. The brief also describes challenges LHDs experience and discusses next steps to undertake to ensure the mental health of the women they serve. The LHDs cited are Lawrence-Douglas County (Kansas), Clinton County (New York), and Jefferson County (Washington). [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Case studies, Community programs, Local initiatives, Maternal depression, Mental health services, Postpartum depression, Women's health

Annotation: This brief provides an overview and analysis about the important role that Medicaid plays in financing family planning services to low-income women across the nation. The brief reviews the extent to which women of reproductive age rely on Medicaid for their care; the special status that family planning has long had under Medicaid; the range of services covered under the term family planning; the 21 state-initiated Medicaid family planning expansions to provide increased eligibility; and the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of subsidized family planning in reducing unintended pregnancies and births, as well as abortions, especially among adolescents and unmarried women. Statistical information is presented in figures throughout the brief. The brief also includes a list of references.

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Keywords: Access to health care, California, Case studies, Family planning, Government financing, Health care financing, Low income groups, Medicaid, Women, Women's health

Annotation: This issue brief examines women's roles in family health care decision-making and coordination, the effect of that involvement for women who work, and women's caregiving responsibilities. This analysis is based on data from the 2001 Kaiser Women's Health Survey, a nationally representative sample of nearly 4, 000 women between the ages of 18 and 64. Topics include women's roles in coordinating care for their children and families, balancing work and family health responsibilities, characteristics and health concerns of female caregivers, and barriers to access to care. Statistical data are provided in eight figures throughout the brief.

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Keywords: Families, Family health, Health status, Statistics, Surveys, Women's studies, Work family issues, Working women

Annotation: This book for health and community professionals and the general public discusses both traditional and alternative medical therapies for women's health issues throughout the life cycle. Part one outlines major health care issues and goals in the areas of physical, reproductive, and psycho-social-cultural-spiritual health. Part two covers traditional and alternative approaches to women's wellness including historical perspectives, psychological therapies, physical activities, nutrition, pharmacological therapies, herbal remedies, homeopathy, and acupuncture. Unique treatment options are also included such as spiritual approaches, music, drama and dance therapies, and therapeutic touch. Part three presents case studies of women's health care in Nicaragua, a use of art therapy, and storytelling as a holistic treatment. An index is provided.

Keywords: Acupuncture, Alternative medicine, Biofeedback, Case studies, Drug therapy, Herbs, Holistic health, Life cycle, Reproductive health, Women's health

Annotation: This report highlights key findings of the 1998 Survey of Women's Health and serves as an update on women's health across the lifespan since a similar survey conducted in 1993. The survey consisted of telephone interviews with 2, 850 women and 1, 500 men on such topics as access to health care, health knowledge, health-related behaviors, and other health topics. Survey topics include preventive care; managed care; health awareness, behaviors, and physician counseling; violence and abuse; mental health; informal caregiving; and health and economic security, insurance status, and access to care for working women. The report is divided into several parts providing details in the overview and survey findings sections, with charts, tables, and methodology sections presenting statistical information.

Keywords: Abuse, Access to health care, Caregivers, Economic factors, Ethnic factors, Health behavior, Health insurance, Hormone replacement therapy, Life cycle, Managed care, Mental health, Osteoporosis, Preventive health services, Racial factors, Reproductive health, Surveys, Violence, Women's health, Women's health studies, Working women

Annotation: This book focuses on women's health promotion in five areas: recognition of women's voices and perspectives on theoretical and methodological implications in medical research; women workers in health and social services agencies; women with disabilities; immigrant, refugee, and minority women; and women's issues across the lifespan. Topics include research in promoting women's health issues and treatment, by applying a feminist participatory framework within academic communities nationwide. Topics include medical, social and cultural factors encountered by women across social, ethnic, and economic level in society and the workforce.

Keywords: Breast cancer, Case studies, Consumer education materials, Cultural factors, Disabilities, Feminism, Health promotion, Homosexuality, Legal issues, Life cycle, Mental health, Skin cancer, Social factors, Sun exposure, Violence, Women's health, Working women

Annotation: This report presents an interdisciplinary portrayal of the connections among the physical, psychological, social, and cultural aspects of physical activity and sport in girls' lives. The research findings discussed show how physical activity and sport impact the "complete girl"—the many interrelated aspects of a girl's life ranging from musculoskeletal and cardiovascular functioning, to psychological well-being, gender identity, relationships with friends and family, and performance in school. Following an analysis of the research findings, the report concludes with a list of policy recommendations.

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Keywords: Adolescent females, Mental health, Physical activity, Physical fitness, Policy development, Sports, Women's health promotion, Women's studies

Annotation: This report of case studies of women's health centers is divided into three sections. The first section discusses commonalties including women centered missions, women providers, and leadership. The second section discusses crosscutting issues including adapting to managed care, the safety net for women, and abortion politics. The last section discusses conclusions and implications for policy and research. Appendix A provides the case study methods. Appendix B is one-page summaries of the case study reports describing the centers as they were observed in 1995.

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Keywords: Abortion, Case studies, Health personnel, Leadership, Managed care, Policy development, Program descriptions, Program descriptions, Research, Research methodology, Welfare programs, Women, Women's health services

Annotation: This book presents an account of a 17-year follow-up study of adolescent mothers enrolled in a 1966 evaluation of a comprehensive care program located in a community-based medical center in Baltimore. The follow-up study attempts to explain differences in the life course of the young mothers as they enter their thirties, and as their children become adolescents. The content of the book includes: reassessing adolescent parenthood, pathways to success in adulthood, the children's experience, the intersecting life courses of adolescent mothers and their children, and implications for public policy.

Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, Evaluation, Follow-up studies, Parents, Public policy, Women's health

Annotation: This is the second report of the Institute of Medicine's study of Contrasts in Health Status. It reports the development of the tracer methodology for evaluating ambulatory health services. The tasks undertaken were: establishment of criteria selecting tracers; selection of a set of tracers for evaluating various aspects of delivery of ambulatory medical services in a population cross section; development of minimal medical care treatment criteria for each health problem selected as a tracer; and development of a comprehensive description of the epidemiology and a summary of the functional impact of each tracer. The report's seven chapters cover the tracer method, hearing loss, visual disorders, anemia, hypertension, urinary tract infections, and cervical cancer.

Keywords: Health services, Access to health care, Cross sectional studies, Evaluation, Maternal health services, Women's health