Refusal Laws: Dangerous for Women’s Health doc

... Refusal Laws Endanger Women’s Health When health- care institutions and providers deny women access to information about all their health- care options, they can compromise women’s health. ... women who depend on federal programs for affordable health care. These refusal laws can jeopardize women’s access to comprehensive reproductive -health information and services under two programs ... in the United States (20th ed. 2011), at www.WhoDecides.org. Refusal Laws: Dangerous for Women’s Health Refusal laws (sometimes called “conscience” laws) permit a broad range of...

... Assistance Inc., Bangladesh • Roberto Rivera, MD, Family Health International, USA • Pramilla Senanayake, MBBS, DTPH, PhD, Global Forum for Health Research, Sri Lanka and UK • C. Johannes van ... Vivien Tsu.Copyright © 2007, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH). All rights reserved. The material in this document may be freely used for educational or noncommercial purposes, ... that of existing infant vaccination programs. Financing for health care in developing countries is already limited; therefore, nancing for HPV vaccine programs will require sustained, strong...

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... will be used for strengthening local health systems or for improving women’s health. Ministries of Health have to be supported to build a strongcase for ensuring that funds flow to the health sector. ... strengthening of health systems and to the uncompromising protection of the health and rights of women and girls.Wye River Call to Action for Global Women’s Health The grim picture of women’s health, ... and policies to strengthen health systems, improve women’s health, and establish tolerance and respect for women’s decisions in all matters pertaining to their health and well being.nHIV...

... York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1994.115. e health consequences of smoking for women. a report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD, US Public Health Service, Oce on Smoking and Health, ... becoming a major health issue for women as well as men.1 e high percentage of non-smoking women in those countries makes them an attractive target for the industry. e health e ects of ... the serious health e ects of smoking. In those countries where female smoking is increasing, it may be several decades before the full health impact is felt, but devastating health consequences...

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... Reproductive Health and Research Unit (RHRU). 2006 Contraceptive Commodities for Women’s Health 26 17. Female Condoms and U.S. Foreign Assistance: An Unfinished Imperative for Women’s Health ... Contraceptive Commodities for Women’s Health 15 Manufacturing: Package, dose, formulation, instructions The first female condom (FC1) was introduced on the market by the Female Health Company in ... Contracept Reprod Health Care. 2009;14(6):420-5. (abstract) Contraceptive Commodities for Women’s Health 21 13. Dorflinger LJ. Metabolic effects of implantable steroid contraceptives for women....

... Data on Massachusetts Health Reform and Women’s Health Suffolk University’s Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights’ 2008 policy brief, Women and Health Care Reform in Massachusetts, ... Massachusetts Health Reform: Impact on Women’s Health Tracey Hyams, JD, MPH Laura Cohen Women’s Health Policy and Advocacy Program Connors Center For Women’s Health and Gender ... and Women’s Hospital Center for Community Health and Health Equity • Ibis Reproductive Health • Massachusetts Department of Public Health • Partners HealthCare • Suffolk University Center for...

... responsibilities for women’s health . ~ questionnaire respondent, Conversation on Women’s Health CONVERSATION ON WOMEN’S HEALTH public policy recommendationsThese 28 recommendations for provincial ... share their concerns about their health and our health care system at a Conversation on Women’s Health. The Vancouver Women’s Health Collective founded the Women’s Health Community Advisory Committee ... their health and our health care system.Women were invited to the International Day of Action for Women’s Health event to participate in one, two or all three Conversations on Women’s Health. ...

... Proceed with a Comprehensive Plan Going forward, U.S. global health policy should include a realistic, comprehensive long-term plan for improving women’s health that focuses heavily on—but is ... permission;  Health facilities that are difficult to reach from women’s usual residences;  The absence of any vehicle to use for emergency transport and/or lack of money to pay for emergency ... adequate quality of care—after arrival at a health facility. 12 | improving maternal mortality and other aspects of women’s health adolescents; and women’s reluctance—or inability—to plan facility-based...