Women's Health
In the Spotlight
Ways to Help Improve Women's Health
Learn how you can help improve women’s health through your clinic,
practice, community, or organization.
Camping Health
and Safety Tips and Packing Checklist
Follow these tips and use the packing checklist to ensure your camping
trip is safe and healthy.
Video: New Women’s Health Resources
from the CDC
This 3 minute video highlights recent CDC resources for health
professionals.
Science and Research
Breastfeeding-Related Maternity Practices at Hospitals and Birth Centers-
United States, 2007 (6/23/08)
This report indicates that 1) a substantial proportion of facilities used
maternity practices that are not evidence-based and are known to interfere
with breastfeeding and 2) states in the southern United States generally had
lower scores, including certain states previously determined to have the
lowest 6-month breastfeeding rates.
Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance- United States, 2007 (6/23/08)
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System monitors six categories of
health behaviors among students in grades 9-12, including behaviors that
contribute to unintentional injuries and violence; tobacco use; alcohol
and other drug use; sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended
pregnancy and STDs, including HIV infection; unhealthy dietary
behaviors; and physical inactivity. Find out what has changed and how
girls compare to boys.
Prevention of Pertussis, Tetanus, and Diphtheria
among Pregnant and
Postpartum Women and Their Infants (6/23/08)
This report describes the clinical features of pertussis, tetanus, and
diphtheria among pregnant and postpartum women and their infants; reviews
available evidence of pertussis vaccination; summarizes Tdap vaccination
policy; and presents recommendations for use of Td and Tdap vaccines among
pregnant and postpartum women. See also:
Appendix
A and
Appendix
B.
Guiding Principles for Development of ACIP Recommendations for Vaccination
during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (6/23/08)
This document provides guidance to help standardize procedures for policy
formulation and presentation of the rationale and recommendations for
vaccination of pregnant and breastfeeding women. These principles will be
applied to future Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices vaccine
statements and routine updates of existing statements in which vaccination
of pregnant and breastfeeding women is considered.
Acute Renal Failure Associated with Cosmetic Soft-Tissue Filler Injections-
North Carolina, 2007 (6/23/08)
These findings underscore the risks posed by cosmetic injections
administered by unlicensed practitioners. Public health officials should be
alert for adverse events associated with these injections and take all
necessary actions to prevent additional injuries.
Blood Folate Levels: The Latest NHANES Results (6/23/08)
This data brief provides key findings on blood folate levels from the
National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys and answers pertinent
questions.
Characteristics of Office-Based Physicians and Their Medical Practices-
United States, 2005-2006
(6/23/08)
Nearly 1 in 10 medical practices were multi-specialty groups and accounted
for 20.3 percent of all physicians. About one in four office-based
physicians were female. Specialties with the most physicians included
general and family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics
and gynecology.
Healthy Eating Index Scores
among Adults, 60 Years of Age and Over, by Sociodemographic and Health Characteristics- United States, 1999-2002
(6/23/08)
Only 17% of older adults consumed a ‘‘good’’ quality diet. Females with a
body mass index of 30 or higher ate fewer servings of dairy products,
consumed a higher percentage of calories from total and saturated fat, and
had a lower quality diet than those whose BMI was less than 30.
Health and Wellness
Protect Yourself from the Sun
Protect yourself from the sun to prevent skin cancer, the most common form
of cancer in the United States.
Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer often causes signs and symptoms. Learn more about these
signs and symptoms. See your doctor, nurse, or
other health care professional if you have any of them every day for two weeks
or longer.
Snapshots
Programs and Partnerships
Sewing the Seeds of Good Health
Fifteen years of researcher-community collaboration made it clear that
income, education, occupation, and community factors play a greater role in
health than individual health behaviors or access to health care. Threads of
HOPE is a spinoff of the center's core research project, HOPE Works, in
which trained community facilitators run support groups enabling women to
help each other make health and lifestyle changes. Introducing a
small-business component to the research was inspired by microenterprise
grants that have worked in developing countries.
HIV/AIDS
and Women Surveillance Slide Sets
Slides focusing on HIV/AIDS in women (estimated number and proportion of
AIDS cases, AIDS rates and cases, those living with HIV infection and
AIDS, by transmission category, by race and ethnicity, age at diagnosis,
diagnosis rates, etc).
Conferences and Events
Health Communication, Marketing, and Media, August 12-14, 2008, Atlanta, GA
Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference, December 10-12, Atlanta, GA
Chronic Disease Prevention
& Control, February 23-25, 2009, Washington, DC
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