Cdc : Offices On Women 's Health

Representing and promoting health service delivery, health information, research, public health and health financing and health programs.

Mission: To create a healthier future for children and woman throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research

“Without a lifespan view of women’s health… we are unlikely to be successful in advancing women’s health” (Woods 2009, pg. 400). A Global Health Imperative (2009) by author Nancy Fugate Woods explains the issues about health status and opportunities for the health of girl-children world-wide, which includes sex and gender disparities. Girl and women’s health is important, but just not as important as men’s health. Woods gives example of women’s health issues that are extremely serious. “Health issues or problems that occur predominantly in women are breast cancer and menopause” (Woods 2009, pg. 400). Women all over the world have the risk of getting breast cancer, HIV and Aids. Women that are affected by these diseases in some countries may

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mission is to collaborate to create information and tools for people and communities to protect themselves through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and the preparedness for new health threats The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeks to accomplish its mission by working with partners throughout the nation and the world to monitor health, detect and investigates health problems, conduct research to enhance prevention, develop and advocate sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies, promote health behaviors, foster safe and healthful environments, and provide leadership training. In order for the Centers for Disease to achieve their mission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relies on external partners including public health association, state and local public health agencies, schools and universities, and volunteer organizations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a created a set of four health protection goals. The goals are all people especially those at a greater risk of health disparities will achieve their optimal life span, the place where people live, work, learn, and play will protect and promote their health and safety, people in all communities will be protected from infectious, occupational environmental, and terrorist threats, and people around the world will

Jennifer Smith works for El Paso Public Health, located at south central region Colorado Springs. El Paso Public Health provides several services for the community, individual and family. El Paso Public Health provides services such as educating communities from infectious diseases, food safety, medical resources and tobacco prevention. Secondly, El Paso Public Health provides different programs and services for women and family such as WIC (Women, Infant and Children), Child Health Care Programs, Clinical Services and Immunizations for family. Other programs and services also includes birth and death records, system inspection or other specific records, public health concerns and child care services. (ElPasoCountyHealth)

The Texas Women’s Health Program has start off on a foot of controversial opinions, personal ideals, and questionable authority, and with these comes thousands of critiques, arguments, and overall complaints for the program as a whole. The two prominent sides to this story, those who are for the bill and those who are not, both have their own motives and reasons for their beliefs, and I am not different. Biases exist in any opinion, and they become more evident in accordance to how controversial that opinion is, yet I will try my best to break down arguments to their core evidence to best formulate and improve my own opinion.

The mission of the Department of Health and Human Services is to help provide the structure that Americans need to live prosperous and healthy lives. This service gives families, children, and seniors a way to receive quality health care. This achieved by helping parents find affordable childcare and legitimate jobs. This organization is dedicated to keeping American’s food safe, preventing infectious diseases, and by pushing the boundaries of how to treat and diagnose disease (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services , 2013).

I have chosen The Woman's Hospital of Texas for my LTT1 task. It was founded in 1976 in Houston, TX. The Woman’s Hospital of Texas is affiliated by the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), which offers health services for women and newborns. The Woman’s Hospital of Texas has been one of the state’s foremost care providers for women and newborns for more than 30 years with over 650 board-certified physicians. The hospital also received a High-Performing ranking in gynecology in the U.S. News & World Report's (2008) annual survey with an overall ranking of #40 in Texas, recognized in Gulf Coast and ranked #13 in Houston metro area.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the U.S. government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. HHS is responsible for almost a quarter of all federal outlays and administers more grant dollars than all other federal agencies combined. The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of Americans by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services. In addition, HHS is also responsible to provide better services to people by adapting to new technologies to keep pace with the advancement in technology. As we compare the health and human services from last ten years to present, it is very clear to analyze how health and human systems have improved over the years. The Department manages programs that cover a vast spectrum of activities that impact health, public health, and human services outcomes throughout the life span.

For centuries, the DHOH people have been excluded from health survey and research based studies (Emond, Ridd, Sutherland, Allsop, Alexander, & Kyle, 2015; Barnett et al., 2011; Pick, 2013). The lack of health surveillances exclusion has had long-standing reasons to why local researchers, health surveys, and stakeholders have not been able to meet the needs of the DHOH population (Emond et al., 2015; Barnett et al., 2011; Kuenburg et al., 2015). There is an urgent need to increase DHOH in health surveillances at the same time prospectively establish localized stakeholder’s partnership with the community members by enlarging the research database and information on the DHOH population nationwide (Barnett et al., 2011;

The Department of Health and Human Services and their partners continue to strive to meet the needs of all people regardless what the socioeconomic statuses are. DHHS focus is to encourage all people to become healthy. As many believe, that being healthy starts at home, schools, community and your workplace. Studies suggest that being healthy consist of one taking good care of themselves and their health needs, eating healthy, and not smoking or drinking. With the available resources that all will be able to have access to social and economic opportunities that consist of resources. Healthiness also consist of the cleanliness of your surroundings, water, air and nature. Through various partnerships of DHHS, the continuous of

On Friday, October 27th, this author visited the Women’s Resource Center located in Saraland, Alabama. The Saraland location is located at 1088 Industrial Parkway, Suite 3, and is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Appointments can be made at the Saraland Women’s Resource Center location by calling 251-675-0911. Two other Women’s Resource Centers are located in Mobile on Downtowner Loop and Sage Avenue. There is also a mobile unit that travels to different locations in the Mobile area daily.

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In its 2002 report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, IOM recognized that CHWs "offer promise as a community-based resource to increase racial and ethnic minorities' access to health care and to serve as a liaison between healthcare providers and the communities they serve." The report also asserts that CHWs are effective as, "a strategy for improving care delivery, implementing secondary prevention strategies, and enhancing risk reduction" and recommends integrating trained CHWs into multidisciplinary health care teams. In its 2010 report, A Population-Based Policy and Systems Change Approach to Prevent and Control Hypertension, the IOM recommends the CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

October 11th, 2015 marked the annual Women’s Health Forum put by Integris, a health system in Oklahoma (Integris.com, 2015). The goal of the Women’s Health Forum by Integris is to promote women’s health and awareness of harmful health issues, examples of other events involved with this health program can be found in an ebrochure on the Integris website (Integris.com, 2015). Andie MacDowell, a versatile actor, was brought in by Integris to be the keynote speaker on the eleventh to help promote the forum. Although MacDowell admittedly holds no degrees regarding health issues, bringing in the well-known actress was a great way to advertise the forum and generate interest in the other events.