Women's Health
Resource Brief
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provision effective August 1, 2012 requires free preventive services for women:
- Women’s Preventive Services Guidelines. Department of Health and Human Services. A comprehensive list of all the free preventive services and screenings for women currently provided by the Affordable Care Act.
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 (HRSA): Women’s Health
Podcasts,
state women's health profiles, materials on the Bright Futures for Women’s
Health and Wellness 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 2013.
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. Among other health status indicators, this report looks at mentally unhealthy days and activity limitation days for national results and for state results. 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
Reports, 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. To better find health information, use the Browse A-Z menu, or the Sub-menu links– Condition Information, NICHD Research Information, Find a Study, and Resources and Publications.
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.
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. Materials also available upon request in Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Russian, Arabic, Haitian Creole, French, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese, and Farsi. It is provided by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health.
Related MCH Digital Library Resources
- AIDS/HIV in Pregnancy bibliography
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) resource brief
- Breastfeeding and Working Mothers bibliography
- Depression During and After Pregnancy professional resource guide
- Domestic Violence professional resource guide
- Maternal Morbidity and Mortality organizations
- Nutrition and Physical Activity for Women bibliography
- Nutrition During Pregnancy bibliography
- Preconception and Pregnancy professional resource guide
- Smoking During Pregnancy bibliography
- Substance Use During Pregnancy bibliography
- Well Woman Visits evidence brief
Women's Health: Resource Brief. (November 2014. Updated: March 2020).
Authors: Beth DeFrancis Sun, M.L.S.; Olivia K. Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Digital Library