Health Information Resources on the Internet

Women's Health

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Starting Points | Consumer Information | Research | Grants & Funding | Educational Programs

Women's Health: Starting Points (links checked 03/05/2003)

• Women's Health (via MedlinePlus)
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/womenshealthgeneral.html

• Women's Health (via the Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources)
  http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/obgyn.html

• Gynecology and Women's Health (via MedWeb)
  http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/FMPro?-DB=secondaries.fp3&-Format=Secondary.htm&-Lay=Web&-Max=1000&-Op=eq&Index==Gynecology_and_Women's_Health:*&-Sortfield=Sec&-Token=Gynecology_and_Women's_Health:&-Find
  Meta-list of web sites related to Geriatrics and Aging

• Women's Health (via The Internet Public Library)
  http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hea64.00.00/

• Womens Health (via HealthWeb)
  http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=96
  Health Sciences Libraries - Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin

• women's health (via HealthFinder)
  http://www.healthfinder.gov/search/default.asp?ct=HFDocs&so=Rank%5Bd%5D%2CDocTitle&doclang=1&page=1&q1=women%27s+health
  "Healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies. Since 1997, healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. healthfinder® links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,800 health-related organizations. "

• MedHunt: World-Wide Medical Search
  http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/
  The MedHunt search engine is searches for health-related web sites worldwide. It is operated by the Health On the Net Foundation (HON) a not-for-profit, global public service that relies on sponsorship from the public and private sectors. Launched in 1996, HON is based in Geneva, Switzerland. HON's mission is to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information. HON provides leadership in setting ethical standards for Web site developers.

  The "search hedge" below will retrieve web sites in North America dealing specifically with "Women's Health":
  http://129.194.8.64:9001/cgi-bin/find?1+others+10,1,1women_s_health.adj.north_america,,1,,,,1

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Women's Health: Consumer Information (links checked 03/05/2003)

• National Women's Health Information Center
  http://www.4woman.gov/
  "This website and toll-free call center was created to provide FREE, reliable health information for women everywhere. Browse our database for great resources or take a look through our Special Sections on topic areas like heart disease, disabilities and pregnancy."

• Healthywomen.org
  http://www.healthywomen.org/
  "Women's health information brought to you by the National Women’s Health Resource Center (NWHRC)]

• Femina Web Search for Women
  http://femina.cybergrrl.com/
  "FeMiNa was created in September of 1995 and debuted online to provide women with a comprehensive, searchable directory of links to female friendly sites and information on the World Wide Web."

• New York Times Women's Health
  http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/womenshealth/index.html
  Women's health news.

• Women's Health Matters Network
  http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/
  "Welcome to Women's Health Matters, your source for reliable, evidence-based and up-to-date information on women's health. This site is based at the Women's College Ambulatory Care Centre. Women's health experts from Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre and the Centre for Research in Women's Health developed this site and play an ongoing role in its expansion and review."

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Women's Health: Research (links checked 03/05/2003)

• The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)
  http://www4.od.nih.gov/orwh/
  "The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) serves as a focal point for women's health research at the NIH. The ORWH promotes, stimulates, and supports efforts to improve the health of women through biomedical and behavioral research. ORWH works in partnership with the NIH institutes and centers to ensure that women's health research is part of the scientific framework at NIH and throughout the scientific community. "

• Society for Women's Health Research
  http://www.womens-health.org/
  "The Society for Women's Health Research is the nation's only non-profit advocacy group whose sole mission is to improve the health of women through research. The Society was founded in 1990 when it brought to national attention the need for the appropriate inclusion of women in major medical research studies and the resulting need for greater funding for research on conditions experienced by women."

• Medline (via PubMed)
  http://www.PubMed.gov/
  The premier online database of published clinical and basic research in medicine and the health sciences developed and maintained by the National Library of Medicine of the USA.

  The "search hedge" below will retrieve every article in the database dealing specifically with "Women's Health":
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=PubMed&details_term=%22women%27s%20health%22%5Bmesh%5D

  This search can then be narrowed to specific topics by adding additional keywords to the search box. Use the word "AND" to add key words to your search, for example:

  "women's health"[mesh] AND heart attacks

• Guide to Preventive Cardiology for Women
  http://www.acc.org/clinical/consensus/women/women.htm
  AHA/ACC Scientific Statement: Consensus Panel Statement. "A Guide to Preventive Cardiology for Women" was approved by the American College of Cardiology Board of Trustees on February 22, 1999, and by the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee on September 7, 1998. (J Am Coll Cardiol 1999;33:1751-5)

• National Center of Excellence in Women's Health
  http://womenshealth.med.ucla.edu/

• FASTATS: Women's Health (National Center for Health Statistics)
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/women.htm

• Women's Health Statistics by Category (National Women's Health Information Center)
  http://www.4woman.org/media/statistics.htm

• Women's Safety and Health Issues at Work (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/womsaft.html

• Women's Health Issues (Public Health Service, Office on Women's Health)
  http://www.4woman.gov/owh/pub/womhealth%20issues/index.htm

• Women's Health in the U.S.: NIAID Research on Health Issues Affecting Women (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/womenshealth/womenshealth.pdf

• Health of Minority Women (National Women's Health Information Center)
  http://www.4woman.gov/owh/pub/minority/index.htm

• FDA Office of Women's Health (Food and Drug Administration, Office of Women's Health)
  http://www.fda.gov/womens/default.htm

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Women's Health: Grants & Funding (links checked 03/05/2003)

• Women's Health Initiative (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
  http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/whi/index.html
  "The WHI is one of the largest preventive studies of its kind in the United States. The WHI will focus on the major causes of death, disability and frailty in postmenopausal women. The overall goal of WHI is to reduce coronary heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer, and osteoporotic-fractures among postmenopausal women via prevention/intervention strategies and risk factor identification. The WHI is a 15-year research program that is comprised of three major components."

• The Woodrow Wilson - Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grants
  http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies/health/purpose.html
  "The Woodrow Wilson - Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grants encourage original and significant research on issues related to women's health. These grants are interested in the implications of research for the understanding of women's lives and significance for public policy or treatment. Previous grants have concerned smoking, estrogen, and lung cancer; maternal and child health development; AIDS awareness and prevention; dietary determinants of morbidity and mortality; sex and violence in everyday life; and new reproductive technologies. The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation offers both Women’s Studies Dissertation Grants and WW-Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grants in Women’s Health."

• Research Support (Office of Research on Women's Health)
  http://www4.od.nih.gov/orwh/research.html

• Women's Health Funding (Health Resources and Services Administration)
  http://www.hrsa.gov/WomensHealth/funding.htm

• Funding Opportunities in Women's Health (NWHIC)
  http://www.4woman.gov/fund/

• Funding Announcements (Office of Minority Health)
  http://www.omhrc.gov/OMH/WhatsNew/2pgwhatsnew/Funding.htm
  Federal, State, and Local Funding; Internships/Fellowships/Scholarships; Awards/Grants; Private Foundations; Office of Minority Health Grants; Cooperative Agreements.

Women's Health: Educational Programs (links checked 03/05/2003)

• Arthritis Education Initiative (American Medical Women's Association)
  http://www.amwa-doc.org/Education/arthritis_education.htm

• Building Interdisciplinary Research careers in Women's Health
  http://www.whispr.ucsf.edu/
  "The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Division of Research (DOR) at Kaiser Permanente Northern California have joined to offer a Building Interdisciplinary Research careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH), a program to train junior faculty to be successful, independent clinical investigators in women's health and chronic diseases."

• Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University
  http://partnership.hs.columbia.edu/sponsors.html

• UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health
  http://www.ucsf.edu/coe/community.html

• Women's Health Education Program (Drexel University College of Medicine)
  http://webcampus.med.mcphu.edu/whep/index.html
  

• Women's Health (UCLA Center for Health Policy Reearch)
  http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/womens_health.html
  "In the past decade, changes in public policies and the structure of the health care system have had a disproportionate effect on women's health insurance coverage and access. As well, disparities in health care access and health status among women by income, racial, and ethnic background as well as other factors, have persisted. The Center's work in women's health focuses on these general policy issues examining health insurance coverage, access to care, and health status of women. Several Center studies have examined the health care system and other factors that promote or impede women's access to health insurance and access to health services, such as breast and cervical cancer screening, routine health care, and chronic disease care. Other studies purposely look at health care issues faced by a specific group of women, such as limited-English proficient women, single mothers, or low-income women. The focal point of the Center's research in women's health is on providing timely information to inform policy and programmatic decisions."

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