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Books on: womens health policy

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Man-Made Medicine: Women's Health, Public Policy, and Reform

Book by Kary L. Moss; Duke University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Sex Discrimination In Medicine--United States, Sexism In Medicine--United States, Women's Health Services--Government Policy--United States, Women--Health And Hygiene--Government Policy--United States, Women--Health And Hygiene--United States--Sociological Aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...MEDICINE Womens Health, Public Policy, and Reform...capacity for public policy to adequately address womens health needs: First...perceptions and affect policy proposals that...knowledge about womens health is incomplete...
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International Handbook on Mental Health Policy

Book by Donna R. Kemp; Greenwood Press, 1993

Subjects:

Mental Health Policy

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

This international handbook is the first to analyze mental health policies systematically across a variety of both developed and developing countries. Mental health and public policy experts survey current policies, the public policy process, and critical issues in twenty countries that are ...
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This international handbook is the first to analyze mental health policies systematically across a variety of both developed and developing countries. Mental health and public policy experts survey current policies, the public policy process, and critical issues in twenty countries that are representative of different problems. The work considers the treatment of the mentally ill and mentally retarded, mentally disordered offenses, questions of substance abuse, deinstitutionalization, funding, and consumer rights. This major reference, with its comprehensive and comparative survey, is designed for scholars, students, and professionals who deal with mental health and public policy issues.
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Developing a National Mental Health Policy

Book by Rachel Jenkins, Andrew McCulloch, Lynne Friedli, Camilla Parker; Psychology Press, 2002

Subjects:

Mental Health Planning--United States, Mental Health Policy--United States

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Mental illness causes a substantial health burden in all regions of the world, and is a major contributor to world poverty. Developing a National Mental Health Policy is designed to support those involved in developing locally appropriate mental health policies, emphasising the crucial role of ...
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Mental illness causes a substantial health burden in all regions of the world, and is a major contributor to world poverty. Developing a National Mental Health Policy is designed to support those involved in developing locally appropriate mental health policies, emphasising the crucial role of primary care, NGOs, the social sector, schools and workplaces, and the criminal justice system as well as the specialist mental health services. The book addresses the principles of human rights, mental health legislation, mental health information systems, human resources, accountability and financing as well as key cultural issues. It gives a comprehensive and up to date account of the task of tailoring mental health services to the needs of countries in the post-institutional era.
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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950

Book by Susan L. Smith; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995

Subjects:

African American Women Health Reformers--Southern States--History, African Americans--Medical Care--Southern States--History, Health Care Reform--Southern States--History, Public Health--Southern States--History

Collections: Entire Library

...translated health policy into health programs. Furthermore...history of black womens health activism...shape public policy in the New...history of black womens health activism shows...implementation of health policy by discussing...studies of black womens public health...
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African-American Women's Health and Social Issues

Book by Catherine Fisher Collins; Auburn House, 1996

Subjects:

African American Women--Diseases, African American Women--Health And Hygiene, African American Women--Social Conditions

Collections: Entire Library

A contributed book written by African-American women--scholars, professionals, and administrators--working with the problems that plague their communities. These women, tired of reading about themselves from nonblack and male perspectives, have confronted the problems of health concerns, substance ...
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A contributed book written by African-American women--scholars, professionals, and administrators--working with the problems that plague their communities. These women, tired of reading about themselves from nonblack and male perspectives, have confronted the problems of health concerns, substance abuse, homelessness, transracial adoption, and other social and health issues from their unique viewpoints.
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Journal Articles on: womens health policy

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Filling a Vacuum: Women's Health Information in Good Housekeeping's Articles and Advertisements, 1920-1965

Journal article by Kim Chuppa-Cornell; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005

Subjects:

Good Housekeeping (Periodical)--Criticism and interpretation, Good Housekeeping (Periodical)--History, Health education--Evaluation, Health education--History, Journalistic ethics--Evaluation, Women's health, Women--Health aspects

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...advertisement for Listerine played on womens social fears of failing to live up to...ironically aided in their goal of creating health practices and standards by the AMA, which...the popular press. The AMAs advertising policy of 1905 and the Pure Food and Drug Act...
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Advancing Novel Science in Women's Health Research (ANSWHR) [R21]

Journal article; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, 2007

Subjects:

Women's health--Reports, Women's health--Research, Women--Health aspects, Women--Reports, Women--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...that affect women; 3) examine health disparity issues in chronic...opportunistic infections; 2) NIDCR has a policy that R21 applications cannot...behavioral and social aspects of health and illness. Under this PAS...Awards" section of the NIH Grants Policy Statement. Specifically, if...
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The Silent Thief: Osteoporosis and Women's Health Care across the Life Span

Journal article by Shari Munch, Sarah Shapiro; Health and Social Work, Vol. 31, 2006

Subjects:

Osteoporosis--Care and treatment, Osteoporosis--Research, Social workers--Services, Wellness programs--Management, Women's health--Research, Women--Health aspects, Women--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...useful preventive strategies. Womens Health Care Policy and Biomedical Research The future...Research on Womens Health (ORWH), and Womens Health Research, all have organizational...to respond to osteoporosis as a policy issue. As a result, the ORWH has...
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Health Policy in the Market State

Journal article by Richard Hugman; Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 34, 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Health Policy in the Market State (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...diverse areas of social policy, is shown by Muetzelfeldt...de-politicisation of health and welfare, can...Anderson Brady), womens health (Horsley...based funding in womens health programs. More generally...to de-politicise policy. In the final chapter...
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Women's Health Needs Special Treatment

Journal article by Sharon Keigher, Susan Taylor-Brown; Health and Social Work, Vol. 26, 2001

Subjects:

Diseases--Demographic aspects, Women's issues--Health aspects, Women--Health aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...violence. The neglect of womens health has been largely the result...influence in national policy making. At the same time...into crucial aspects of womens health that are amenable to improvement...program development and policy advocacy. The research...

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Magazine Articles on: womens health policy

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Blocking Women's Health Care: Your Hospital May Have a Policy You Don't Know About

Magazine article by Melanie Conklin; The Progressive, Vol. 62, January 1998

Subjects:

Abortion services--Supply and demand, Catholic hospitals--Social policy, Contraception--Political aspects, Pro-life movement--Political aspects, Women's health services--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

Blocking womens health care: your hospital may have a policy you dont know...disobeying hospital policy. Though emergency...reproductive health care with a...all sorts of womens reproductive...marginalize womens health care," she says...
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Women Aren't "Small Men": Women's Health Issues Are Different Than Men's and Need to Be Addressed Specifically

Magazine article by Jody Ruskamp-Hatz; State Legislatures, Vol. 33, June 2007

Subjects:

Women's health--Management, Women--Care and treatment, Women--Health aspects, Women--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...satisfactory" grade for womens health, but Minnesota, Massachusetts...adopted 67 selected health policy recommendations. The only...specific things to address womens health, no state has come close...Berlin says. "On the policy indicators since the previous...
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National Black Women's Health Project

Magazine article by Lorraine Cole; Ebony, Vol. 57, October 2002

Subjects:

African American women--Health aspects, National Black Women's Health Project

Collections: Entire Library

...shifting disease burden, injustice, treatment bias, and many other health policy issues. I invite you to visit us at www.BlackWomensHealth,ORG, a...National Black Womens Health Project
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Office of Women's Health

Magazine article by Isadora B. Stehlin; FDA Consumer, Vol. 30, October 1996

Subjects:

Public health personnel--Services, Women's health services--Innovations

Collections: Entire Library

...womens involvement in the FDA policy development process * Hispanic Womens Health Conference in Miami on May...underserved. As the Office of Womens Health continues to define its role...advances in thinking, in policy, and in regulation."
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Women's Health to Get More Attention in Ohio

Magazine article; State Legislatures, Vol. 20, March 1994

Subjects:

Ohio--Social policy, Women--Health aspects

Collections: Entire Library

Womens health to get more attention in Ohio. To help womens health problems gain parity with mens, Ohio now has a state Office of Womens Health Initiatives, thanks to freshman Senator...

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Newspaper Articles on: womens health policy

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Setting the Record Straight on Women's Health

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 11, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Institutes of Health even though NIH since 1986 had had a policy requiring investigators to include women in such trials...included in clinical trials, and the Office of Research on Womens Health, established in 1990 to address gender inequities, has...
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Women's Health - Setting the Record Straight Once More

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 14, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...inclusion in NIH-funded trials well before NIHs Office of Womens Health began tracking this officially. For example, NIH reported...report says, "We could not determine the effect of (a policy encouraging womens inclusion in trials) on the demographic...
3.

Plan B Backlash

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 7, 2005

Subjects:

Contraceptives industry, Oral contraceptives, United States. Food and Drug Administration, Women's health, Women--Health aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...director of the FDAs Office of Womens Health, resigned in disgust last week...that science informs good health-policy decisions. I can no longer serve...became aware of its movement. Public health policy must be based on science, not Scripture...
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Newcomers Energize City's Planned Parenthood

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 14, 2005

Subjects:

Nonprofit organizations, Women's health, Women--Health aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...instrumental in getting the university health plans to cover contraceptives. Currently...Washington Area Clinic Defense Task Force and Womens Informational Network. "Ive always been...said Ashlie Bagwell, director of public policy at Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan...
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I Am Glad My Father Gave Me No Money; Betting Man: Damian Aspinall Says Women Are the Punters of the Future

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 2, 2007

Subjects:

Gambling industry, Women's health, Women--Health aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the impact that large casinos will have on thenations moral health, Aspinall is targeting women who have traditionallypreferred...hasbeen motivated by headlines, not research and thought-out policy, he says. Gambling in casinos has not risen. Problem gambling...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: womens health policy

2 results

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Labor, United States Department Of

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with the interaction among U.S. foreign policy, foreign labor developments, and U.S...injuries). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is responsible for ensuring...conditions in terms of safety and health. The Womens Bureau promotes the employment, efficiency...
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Supreme Court, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...precipitated his resignation three weeks later. The courts most controversial decision of the Burger years was the declaration of womens rights to abortion in Roe v. Wade (1973). Critics were opposed to both its results invalidation of state statutes prohibiting...

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