Women's Health Services - Organization & administration
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Expanding the public health research agenda for ovarian cancer.

30 Aug 2009 Since the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has undertaken an active public health research agenda in ovarian cancer, focused mainly on research related to earlier recognition of symptoms, methods for earlier diagnosis, ... Read more...

What is "women-focused" treatment for substance use disorders?

29 Jun 2009 Over the past three decades research has highlighted gender differences in substance use disorders and substance abuse treatment participation. Programs devoted to addressing women's treatment needs, broadly encompassed in the term "women-focused ... Read more...

Women living with HIV and AIDS: right to prevention, treatment, and health care.

16 Jun 2009 Women living with HIV/AIDS not only bear the burden of this pandemic in under-resourced countries, but are faced with the human rights issues concerning the management of their condition, not only for their own health, but also for prevention of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Women's Health Services - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Expanding the public health research agenda for ovarian cancer. 30 Aug 2009
• Uganda to reintroduce female condoms. 16 Jul 2009
• What is "women-focused" treatment for substance use disorders? 29 Jun 2009
• Women living with HIV and AIDS: right to prevention, treatment, and health care. 16 Jun 2009
• Rights to safe motherhood and newborn health: ethical issues. 14 Jun 2009
• Epistemological questions. 30 May 2009
• The Well Woman Program: a community-based randomized trial to prevent sexually transmitted infections in low-income African American women. 30 May 2009
• The integration of STD/HIV services with contraceptive services for young women in the United States. 28 May 2009
• Clinic-based nutrition and lifestyle counseling for Hispanic women delivered by community health workers: design of the California WISEWOMAN study. 29 Apr 2009
• Recall of three heart disease risk factor diagnoses among low-income women. 29 Apr 2009
• Looking forward to a century of service, support, and success. 29 Apr 2009
• Periconceptional folic acid and multivitamin supplementation for the prevention of neural tube defects and other congenital abnormalities. 30 Mar 2009
• It is common to study issues of health, and health practices among women in a particular subculture in only one country. 30 Mar 2009
• Influence of traditional Vietnamese culture on the utilisation of mainstream health services for sexual health issues by second-generation Vietnamese Australian young women. 27 Feb 2009
• Perceived barriers to physical activity according to stage of change and body mass index in the west virginia wisewoman population. 27 Feb 2009
• A lifestyle approach to reducing cardiovascular risk factors in underserved women: design and methods of the Illinois WISEWOMAN Program. 27 Feb 2009
• Outcomes evaluation of St Petersburg Russia Women's Wellness Center. 27 Feb 2009
• [Central Coordinating Center Summary of the National Cervical Cancer Screening Program in Poland in the period from January 1st till December 31st 2008] 27 Feb 2009
• ACOG Committee Opinion No. 429: health disparities for rural women. 27 Feb 2009
• Help-seeking behaviors for female sexual dysfunction: a cross sectional study from Iran. 25 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Women's Health Services'

Definition: Organized services to provide health care to women. It excludes maternal care services for which MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES is available.

Descriptor UI: D014932

Alternative terms: Women's Health Services; Women Health Services; Health Services, Woman's; Health Service, Woman's; Health Services, Woman; Health Services, Womans; Service, Woman's Health; Woman's Health Service; Woman's Health Services; Woman Health Services; Health Services, Women's; Health Services, Women; Services, Women's Health; Health Service, Women's; Service, Women's Health; Services, Women Health; Services, Womens Health; Women's Health Service; Services, Woman's Health; Services, Woman Health; Services, Womans Health;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.421.920;

History Note: 89(88); was see under HEALTH SERVICES 1988

Technical Notes: does not include maternal care services: index under MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; check also tags HUMANS and FEMALE; DF: WOMENS HEALTH SERV