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Women's Health

Interest in women's health issues continues to flourish as both the medical and research communities recognize that health issues affect women and men differently. Originally the focus of women's health was on diseases/health concerns specific to women, or the different ways that women experience certain symptoms and illnesses.
Today, the women's health field has broadened to include not only disease concerns specific to women, but also the behaviors and attitiudes that affect women's health and well-being. The psychological, emotional, social, cultural, and behavioral aspects of women's health are now considered as important as the physical dimensions.

On this page you will find a collection of links relevant to Women's Health and well-being, both physical and psychological.

INDEX
General Women's Health Sites

Women's Health Issues

Menopause	Women's Stress
Osteoporosis	Depression
Breast Cancer	Eating Disorders
Women & HIV	Pregnancy, Childbirth & Reproductive Issues
Cardiovascular Health	Dieting, Nutrition, & Exercise
Violence & Abuse Against Women

Women's Health Professional Journals
Women's Health Conferences

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General Women's Health Sites

The following links are to general women's health sites. Many of these are to international sites, and include governement, non-profit, educational and other commercial sites.

**Government & non-profit Sites**
Canadian Women's Health Network
The Office on Women's Health (in the U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services)
Women's Health America
The National Women's Health Information Center
Women's Health Interactive
Department of Women and Child Health
Australian Women's Health Network (AWHN)
Women's Health Project
Women's Health Statewide (South Australia)
Women's Health Australia (The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health)
Women's Health (Gov't. of Australia)
Women's Health Victoria
National Asian Women's Health Organization (NAWHO)
Statistics on Women's Health Issues (links to gov't sites with stats on women's health)
National Womens' Health Resource Centre Healthy Women page
Health and Well Being Outcomes Unit - Women's Health page
Focus on Health and Leadership for Women (University of Pennsylvania Health System)
Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research
National Academy on Women's Health Medical Education

**Other Sites**
BBC Online Women's Health
Internet Myths and Women's Health
Women's Centre for Health Matters
Museum of Menstruation & Women's Health
Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
IntiliHealth Women's Health page
Women's Health Information
Estronaut: A Forum for Women's Health
Women's Health Hotline (A newsletter providing the media with information on women's health.
Women's Health Articles
The New York Times on the Web Women's Health page
Black Women's Health - dedicated to the health and wellness of today's African American woman
Women's Health page at Health Mantra.com
Women's Health at Patient UK
American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)
JAMA Women's Health Information Centre
The Native American Women's Health Education Resource Centre
Femina Web Search - Health & Wellness - sites for, by, and about Women
Women's Health at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Women's Health: An Alternative and Complementary Medicine Resource Guide
Women's Media.com Health Topics page

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Women's Health Issues

The links under each topic include both related societies and associations as well as articles.

**Menopause**
North American Menopause Society
Menopause Online
Menopause and the Brain (Scientific American article)
Menopause Fact Sheet (NIH)
Women's Wellness Menopause page
Power Surge: The Community for Women at Midlife
Menopause - A Source of Information and Support

**Eating Disorders**
Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture
Treating Eating Disorders
American Anorexia Bulimia Association (a national, non-profit organization)
The National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) (a Toronto-based, non-profit organization)
Eating Disorders Association

**Dieting, Nutrition, & Exercise**
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity
Bone mass and exercising in women (Bandolier article)
Women Exercise Less After Having Children (Health Information Network article)
Physical Activity and Health for Women (CDC Fact Sheet)
Women's Exercise Research Center
Women Who Exercise Too Much Face Health Problems

**Women's Stress**
Women's Stress Management Project Web site
Persistent Stress as a Predictor of Genital Herpes Recurrence
Life events scales for young, middle-aged and older women
Stress, Emotions & Health for Women
Women's Marital Stress Affects CHD Prognosis More Than Does Work Stress (Cardiology Forum article)
Study: Women Socialize Away Stress (ABC.com article)
Women and Stress in the Workplace Is there a solution? (Working Women's Center article)

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**Depression**
Wing of Madness - Women and Depression site
Post Partum Depression
Why are so many women depressed? (Scientific American article)
PMS and PMDD cause serious suffering (USA Today article)
Major Depression May Increase Risk For Breast Cancer

**Osteoporosis**
National Osteoporosis Foundation
NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases - National Resource Center
National Osteoporosis Society (NOS)
Osteoporosis Online - (Osteoporosis Society of Canada)
International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF)
Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education

**Breast Cancer**
National Breast Cancer Coalition
Community Breast Health Project
Psychosocial factors and the risk of developing breast cancer (National Breast Cancer article on the effects of stress on breast cancer)
Younger Breast Cancer Patients Suffer More Depression (UniSci article)
Effect of NHS breast screening programme on mortality from breast cancer in England and Wales, 1990-8: comparison of observed with predicted mortality (BMJ, 2000)
Mammography is no better than physical examination, study shows (BMJ, 2000)
Probing the Mental State of Breast Cancer Patients (article from UniSci)

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**Women & HIV**
Positive Women Website: Support and advocacy for women with HIV/AIDS by women with HIV/AIDS
HIV Infection in Women (NIH fact sheet)
HIV Insight Women's page
Personal Stories of Women Living with HIV
Women and Children with HIV
Strategies for Preventing HIV in Women (a Daily Apple article)
Strategies for Preventing HIV in Women (CDC page)
Women & HIV Fact Sheets (from planned parenthood Canada)
Treatment Strategies for HIV Infected Women
HIV Disease in Women (Medscape article)
HIV and Women (Always Your Choice article)
HIV infected women often victims of abuse (Foxnews.com article)
Sexual Behavior of HIV-Infected Women Reporting Recent Sexual Contact With Women (JAMA 1998)
HIV/AIDS Among US Women: Minority and Young Women at Continuing Risk (CDC fact sheet)

**Pregnancy, Childbirth & Reproductive Issues**
OBGYN.net Women's Pavilion
Endo-Online: The voice of the Endometriosis Association
Pre-Term Births Influenced By Psychosocial Factors

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**Cardiovascular Health**
A Woman's Heart: Many Women Experience More Severe First Heart Attacks Than Men
American Heart Association's Women's Health page
Women's Cardiovascular Health Network
Women's Health : Preventing Cardiovascular Diseases
Women's Cardiovascular Health Assessment (online risk assessment)

**Violence & Abuse Against Women**
Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network
The Consequences of Violence against Women (Scientific American article)
Prostitution, Violence Against Women, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Women's Health Professional Journals

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (JAMWA)

Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine

Medscape's Women' Health - an e-Journal

Women's Health Issues (a unique interdisciplinary journal dedicated to examining and promoting excellence in women's health.)

Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health

BMC Women's Health (an online Journal)

Journal of Women's Health and Law

Journal of the Section on Women's Health (International Organization of Physical Therapists in Women's Health Journal)

Women's Health Conferences

9th International Women and Health Meeting

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Last update was September 16, 2003

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