Women
(Mujeres)
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Tools
(Herramientas)
- MedlinePlus: Diabetes y el embarazo
Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
- MedlinePlus: Cuidado prenatal
Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
- Find a Health Center
The Bureau of Primary Health Care Service Delivery Sites tool allows users to search for health centers, including Federally Qualified Health Centers and other Bureau of Primary Health Care service delivery sites, by location. These health centers provide free and low-cost health services. Services include primary medical, obstetrical and gynecological, dental, mental health and substance abuse care, other types of medical and support services.
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Primary Health Care
- Knowledge Path: Spanish-Language Health Resources
A guide of high-quality Spanish-language health resources for health professionals and consumers. The collection covers a wide range of health topics, each with a section that focuses on topics of interest to families and professionals in the maternal and child health (MCH) community.
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
- America's Pregnancy Helpline
A national health organization committed to ongoing reproductive research and education, promoting community awareness and providing fact-based information for women and families with pregnancy related needs. Their goal is to empower women and families, within their own communities, through education and counseling, by offering healthy reproductive options and promoting and supporting healthy pregnancies with positive outcomes.
- Women's Health USA 2007
Contains a collection of current and historical data on some of the most pressing health challenges facing women, their families, and their communities. Includes updated and detailed women's and minority health data and maps available at the State and county level and by age, race/ethnicity, and sex.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
- The Latino Initiative
An information portal focused specifically on helping the Latino community in its efforts to reduce continued high rates of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing.
Sponsoring organization: National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
- Girlshealth.gov
Provides girls between the ages of 10 and 16 reliable, useful information on the health issues they will face as they become young women, and tips on handling relationships with family and friends, at school and at home.
Sponsoring organization: Office on Women's Health
- National Hispanic Prenatal Helpline (NHPH)
Refers Hispanic consumers to a culturally and linguistically proficient prenatal care provider in their community.
Sponsoring organization: National Alliance for Hispanic Health
Funding
(Financiamiento)
- 2009 Supporting the Safety Net
Funding to support programs that improve access to quality breast diagnostics and access to breast health care for the medically underserved.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Avon Foundation
- Amy’s Courage Fund
Provides emergency financial assistance to victims of domestic violence and their children to meet their immediate needs after escaping an abusive home.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: National Network to End Domestic Violence
- California Wellness Foundation Grants
Funds for direct preventive health services, core operating support, community action and public education and public policy.
Geographic Coverage: California
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
- Count Me In Loans
Provides business loans to women.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Count Me In
- Family Planning Services Grants
Grants to provide family planning services.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Office of Population Affairs
- Komen Foundation Patient Services Grants
Funds to assist not-for-profit institutions and providers of breast cancer care to maintain the continuum of services to breast cancer patients and breast cancer survivors impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and/or Rita.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
- Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust Grants
Grants for people in need including the elderly, disabled adults and/or children, as well as women, youth and families.
Geographic Coverage: Arizona
Application Deadline:
Sep 8, 2009 Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
- William Randolph Hearst Foundations Health Grants
Provides funding to improve access to quality health care for underserved populations in rural and urban areas.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Publications
(Publicaciones)
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Breastfeeding - A Healthy Start for Mom and Baby
Provides information about the benefits of breastfeeding to both baby and mother.
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Date: 09 / 2006
Format: HTML
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The Health of the California Region Bordering Mexico
Discusses the indicators from the Healthy Border 2010 program along the California border region.
Author(s): Alvaro Garza, Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, India J. Ornelas
Sponsoring organization: Springerlink
Journal citation: Journal of Immigrant Health Volume: 15 Issue: 29 Pages: 137-144
Date: 04 / 2004
Format: PDF
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Healthy Border 2010: An Agenda for Improving Health on the United States - Mexico Border
Provides an overview of a specific set of health indicators on the U.S. - Mexico border.
Sponsoring organization: United States - Mexico Border Health Commission
Date: 10 / 2003
Format: PDF
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The Influence of Employment Status on Depressive Symptomatology of U. S.-born Mexican American Women
Depression is the leading disorder among mental health disabilities worldwide. Past research has indicated that women experience higher prevalence rates of depression than men, and Mexican Americans experience higher rates of depression than White Americans. This study examines the factors associated with depressive symptomatology in 80 U.S.-born Mexican American women in a rural Texas town. It is hypothesized that employment status will account for a significant amount of the variance in self-reported depressive symptoms beyond that accounted for by age, income, level of education, and partner status. The results indicate that employment status accounts for a significant amount of the self-reported depressive symptoms and also supports previous findings that education level has a significant impact on depressive symptoms.
Author(s): Linda G. Castillo, Debra J. Archuleta, Alisa Van Landingham
Journal citation: Journal of Rural Community Psychology Volume: E9 Issue: 1 Date: 2006
Format: HTML
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Language Access Solutions for OBGYN Medical Practices
Provides policy and practice recommendations to promote the use of language access practices that ensure interpretation, confidentiality, adherence to medical ethics standards, while discouraging the use of inappropriate methods.
Date: 2007
Format: PDF
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La Menopausia y las Hormonas
Sponsoring organization: FDA Office of Women's Health
Date: 07 / 2005
Format: HTML
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Outreach Boosts Disease Prevention at U.S./Mexico Border
A new study finds personal contact by community health outreach workers increased Mexican-American women's adherence to annual preventive medical exams by 35 percent.
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Date: 06 / 2004
Format: HTML
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Shelter in the Desert: The Center for Family Solutions
The Center for Family Solutions taps into local resources in California's poorest county to provide shelter and educational opportunities for homeless women and their
children.
Author(s): Barbara M. Shaver
Sponsoring organization: Housing Assistance Council
Date: 2007
Format: HTML
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The U.S./Mexico Border: Demographic, Socio-Economic, and Health Issues Profile I
Identifies the subgroups within the Latino population. Provides demographics, socio-economic statistics and other characteristics of the Latino population living along the U.S. Mexico Border.
Date: 12 / 2006
Format: PDF
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Women's Health Care in the United States: Selected Findings from the 2004 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. Fact Sheet
Examines: (1) Disparities in care among women by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. (2) Disparities in health care for women compared with men. and (3) Trends and state variation in women's health care over time.
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Date: 05 / 2005
Format: HTML
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Women's Health USA 2005
A collection of current and historical data on health challenges facing women. Includes a special population section on Border Health.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 2005
Format: PDF
Journals
(Revistas)
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MCH Alert
Provides timely reference to research, findings, policy developments, recently released publications, new programs, and initiatives affecting the maternal and child health (MCH) community. This is a free, weekly electronic newsletter.
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
Organizations
(Organismos)
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CDC Office of Minority and Women's Health
Works to assure that the burden and impact of infectious diseases among racial and ethnic minorities and women is acknowledged and addressed through research, surveillance, education, training, and program development. Part of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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La Leche League International
Helps mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother. Information available in Spanish.
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La Liga de la Leche
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Latina Health Initiative
Provide opportunities for outreach, prevention awareness, and network-building in Spanish-speaking communities locally, nationally and internationally. Developed a peer health-educator (promotoras de salud) training guide that contains topics on sexuality and reproductive rights, sexually transmitted infections, violence against women, mental health, and childbearing. Some information is available in Spanish.
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National Community Centers of Excellence in Women's Health
Designed to integrate, coordinate, and strengthen linkages between programs and activities that are already underway in the community to enhance services available to women and to reduce fragmentation in women's health services.
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National Healthy Start Association
Promotes the development of community-based maternal and child health programs, particularly those addressing the issues of infant mortality, low birthweight and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.
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National Latina Health Network
Works to develop and strengthen the networks of Latina leaders in public health, and building local and national community health partnerships.
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National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Works to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and their communities through education, advocacy and coalition building.
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Women on the Border
Seeks to advance the education, training and empowerment of individuals who are employed in U.S. owned multinational corporations known as
"maquiladoras" that are physically located on foreign soil at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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