National Women's Health Week: May 11-17, 2008
The 9th annual National Women's Health Week will kick off on Mother's Day, May 11, 2008 and will be celebrated until May 17, 2008. National Women's Check-Up Day will be Monday, May 12, 2008.
National Women's Health Week empowers women across the country to get healthy by taking action. The nationwide initiative, coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health (OWH), encourages women to make their health a top priority and take simple steps for a longer, healthier and happier life. During the week, families, communities, businesses, government, health organizations and other groups work together to educate women about steps they can take to improve their physical and mental health and prevent disease, like:
- Engaging in physical activity most days of the week
- Making healthy food choices
- Visiting a healthcare provider to receive regular check-ups and preventive screenings
- Avoiding risky behaviors, like smoking and not wearing a seatbelt
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Grand Rounds with
Geeta Rao Gupta, PhD
"Structural Approaches to HIV Prevention:
Lessons Learned from Addressing Gender Inequality"
March 25, 2008
The Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, in partnership with the GW School of Public Health and Health Services, was honored to host Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta as Grand Rounds speaker at the GW Hospital Auditorium. Dr. Gupta is President of the International Center for Research on Women and is an internationally renowned expert on women and HIV/AIDS, and frequently is consulted on issues related to AIDS prevention and women's vulnerability to HIV.
Dr. Gupta's presentation is available via webcast, thanks to kaisernetwork.org. To view the presentation, please visit:
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Sixth National Conference on
Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations
Partnerships for the future: Supporting practitioners and advancing the field through innovation, policy and research
September 21-24, 2008
Minneapolis, MN
Click for more information: http://www.jiwh.org/content.cfm?SectionID=164
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Jacobs Institute Co-Sponsors Panel Discussion on
Women and Medicaid
2007 American Public Health Association Conference
The Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, in partnership with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, co-sponsored a panel discussion, "Women and Medicaid: Now and in the Future," on November 1, 2007 at the APHA 2007 annual conference.
Moderated by Jackie Judd, KFF Senior Advisor for Communications, the panel included:
Paula Johnson, M.D., M.P.H.
Executive Director
Connor's Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology,
Carolyn Clancy, M.D.,
Director
Sandra Shewry, M.P.H., M.S.W.
Director
Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.
Chair, Department of Health Policy
Sylvia Drew Ivie, J.D., Consultant
Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D. Vice President and Director
A webcast video of the discussion can be found at: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/player.cfm?id=3702#clip_1
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Special Women's Health Issues Preview
The May/June 2007 issue of Women's Health Issues features four articles and a commentary on the topic of:
Gender Disparities in the Quality of Cardiovascular Disease Care
This work was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and funding by the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women movement and its sponsor, Bayer.
Webcast of May 21, 2007 Congressional Briefing
On May 21, The National Committee for Quality Assurance hosted this Congressional briefing to review results from this study with the American Heart Association, the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. A webcast of the event, provided by www.kaisernetwork.org, is available for viewing at:
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=2146
Media Coverage of the Study's Release
Dr. Emily Senay, Health Correspondent, discussed this study's findings on the May 17th broadcast of the CBS Early Show. To view the video, please go to http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2821176n
Chloe Bird, PhD, of RAND, one of the study's investigators, was interviewed on May 18 by Deborah Kotz of U.S. News and World Report about the study. A transcript of the interview is located at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/070518/18health.gender.htm
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Women's Health Issues
Call for Papers
Women's Health Issues invites manuscripts that report the results of original research related to the following topics:
- Prevention, including cervical cancer prevention
- Changes in Medicaid affecting women's health
- Genomics and women's health
- Obesity
- Lesbian Health
- Care coordination and patient-centered care
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