Take action to improve your health
"The first important step is education… The second step on the road to good health is taking action… while the medical community can conduct research, and provide recommendations and guidelines on health-promoting behaviors, the ultimate responsibility for embarking on the road to a healthier and more hopeful life rests with you."
Excerpt from the American Medical Women’s Association: The Women's Complete Healthbook, written entirely by women physicians and other medical professionals.
Women's Health Task Force
A project of the National Council of Women's Organizations, The Women's Health Task force supports the work of NCWO member organizations to advance women's health and to promote NCWO's healthcare policy agenda. We also seek to provide a place where women can find accurate and easy-to-understand preventive health information.
NCWO Featured Programs
Being a woman is not a pre-existing condition
A new project of the National Women’s Law Center, an NCWO affiliate, is Reform Matters: Making Real Progress for Women and Health Care. The project provides tools to be active and vocal advocates in the fight for progressive health care reform on the national and state levels. An especially useful (and catchy) part of the campaign: Being a Woman is Not a Pre-existing Condition, provides concrete examples that illustrate how the current health care system does not meet the needs of women.
Society for Women’s Health Research Celebrates 20 Years: Inclusion of Women in Medical Research is Key Priority
More research is needed to understand women's unique health needs, and it is crucial that women who do participate in research studies are informed volunteers. SWHR's campaign, Some Things Only a Woman Can Do, provides women with accurate information about volunteering for medical research.
What's Inside
Take action
The task force's top legislative priority in the 111th Congress, 1st Session is passage of real health care reform that addresses the needs ofwomen. Click here for resources to contact your Members of Congress.
New Breast Cancer Guidelines Issued, Followed by Controversy and Confusion
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's (USPSTF) breast cancer screening recommendations released Nov. 17 unleashed a firestorm. The new guidelines recommend that women in their 40s no longer have annual mammograms and that women ages 50 to 74 have them only every other year instead of annually.
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Special Thanks
The task force thanks Qiagen, Hologic, Sanofi Aventis and the Office on Women's Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for their generous support.
