Women's Health Resources
 Link to Women's Health Overview Page
NCSL Resources
- Bones and Budgets (June 2008)
This State Legislatures Magazine article discusses state action related to osteoporosis.
- Women and Diabetes (March 2008)
This NCSL Postcard provides some brief statistics about women and diabetes, costs, and control and prevention.
- Osteoporosis Breaks Bones and Budgets (April/May 2008)
This LegisBrief provides a summary of state and federal action related to osteoporosis.
- Cancer Prevention and Control
Covers women's cancer policy including breast and cervical cancer treatment, screening, insurance mandates, health care access for women and more.
- Chronic Disease Prevention
Provides facts about chronic disease as well as further links related to the prevention and management of arthritis, heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis and obesity. Also contains information about asthma, diabetes and immunizations.
- Diabetes: Rising Rates, Disability and Death (October 2006)
This legisbrief provides information on state and federal action relating to diabetes.
- The Benefits of Cord Blood (February 2007)
This article discusses issues and state laws relating to cord blood banking.
- HPV Vaccine Legislation
- Postpartum Depression: Worse Than the Baby Blues (March 2007)
This legisbrief provides information on symptoms of Postpartum depression as well as state and federal activities around the issue.
- The Women's Legislative Network
The Women's Legislative Network, an affiliate of NCSL, includes all women legislators by virtue of their election to office.
- Teen Pregnancy Legisbrief (February 2007)
Although teen pregnancy rates have declined since the early 1990s, they cost taxpayers $9.1 billion in 2005. States have a major role in setting sex education curricula, and some have laws related to preventing teen pregnancies.
- States Consider Requiring New HPV Vaccine for Girls (October 2006)
Article from NCSL's State Health Notes newsletter that discusses states' role in the administration of the new HPV vaccine.
- Update on the Federal Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act (May 2003)
This web-assisted audioconference is one of a number of events in NCSL's Web-Assisted Health Audioconference series.
- Women's Health and Research (November 2001)
This PowerPoint presentation, Women's Health and Research: Current Status and Future Expectations, covers a wide array of topics pertaining to women's health.
NCSL Meeting Materials
- Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment (July 2001)
This state legislative report provides an overview of cancer screening and discusses various aspects of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Treatment Act of 2000.
- Dealing With Meth and Moms (July/August 2006)
This article appeared in the July/August 2006 issue of NCSL's magazine, State Legislatures.
- Health Insurance Flexability and Accountability (HIFA) Demonstration Initiative (January 2002)
This brief provides information on the background of HIFA, as well as benefits, cost sharing, private health insurance "buy-ins," budget neutrality, the waiver approval process and reporting and evaluation components of the new Section 1115 demonstration initiative.
- Making Prescription Coverage Fairer for Women (January 2002)
This article appeared in the January 2002 issue of NCSL's magazine, State Legislatures.
- Medicaid Services Across a Woman's Lifespan (February 2007)
This Legisbrief examines the role Medicaid services play in millions of women's lives.
- Osteoporosis Breaks Bones and Budgets (April/May 2008)
This LegisBrief provides a summary of state and federal action related to osteoporosis.
- Preventing Cervical Cancer (November/December 2006)
This NCSL Legisbrief discusses the HPV vaccine and cervical cancer.
- Report Rates Women's Health: Improvements Needed (September 2002)
Legisbrief discusses women's health.
- State Responses to Maternal Drug and Alcohol Use: An Update (January 2000)
This NCSL publication addresses the problems of pregnant women who use alcohol and other drugs including the biochemical process, barriers to receiving treatment, treatment effectiveness and state action in the area.
- Teen Pregnancy (February 2007)
This LegisBrief examines why teen pregnancy rates have fallen in the last decade and the economic benefits states enjoy because of the declining rates.
- Women and Cardiovascular Disease (April/May 2005)
This NCSL Legisbrief discusses cardiovascular disease, the No. 1 killer of women in America in all racial and ethnic groups.
- Women and Diabetes (March 2008)
This National Conference of State Legislatures Postcard provides some brief statistics about women and diabetes, costs, and control and prevention.
- Women's Health: Coverage of Services (April/May 2001)
This LegisBrief discusses women's access to health care, as well as state and federal action related to women's health.
- Women's Health: An Emerging Definition (May 2000)
This NCSL report presents information about medical and social issues involved in women's health and the various ways legislatures have chosen to address them.
- Women Aren't Just "Small Men' (June 2007)
Article appeared in June 2007 issue of State Legislatures Magazine
Other Resources - General
- American Cancer Society
- Blood Pressure Success Zone Program
Click here to learn more about the program to lower blood pressure
- CDC- Breast Cancer Screening
- CDC - Community Prevention Research in Women's Health
- CDC - Diabetes in Women Project
- CDC - Heart Disease in Women Fact Sheet
- CDC - Women's Health
The Office of Women's Health (OWH) works to raise awareness about women's health and promote activities that will improve the health and safety of women at every stage of life.
- CDC - Searchable (by topic) Site
- Healthy Heart Handbook for Women
From the National Institutes of Health
HPV Vaccine Questions and Answers
- Kaiser State Health Facts
Provides a variety of information and data on women's health topics such as women's health-related Medicaid, state insurance mandates, refusal clauses, emergency contraception policies, abortion policies and statistics, and mammogram and pap screenings.
- Office on Women's Health
- Quick Health Data Online
Database through the Office on Women's Health
- Women in Government
Women in Government is a non-profit, bi-partisan organization of women state legislators providing leadership opportunities, networking, expert forums, and educational resources to address and resolve complex public policy issues.
- Women and Health Coverage: The Affordability Gap
National Women's Law Center, The Commonwealth Fund, April 2007.
- Women's Health - HRSA
Includes tips for healthy eating and physical activity, women's health data books, women's health reports and other helpful links.
- Women's Health and Mortality Chartbook, 2004
- WomenHeart
A national coalition for women with heart disease.
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