WOMEN'S HEALTH SITES

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August 13, 2007.

Mega-Sites

Health Sites list maintained by Joan Korenman.
• HealthWeb: Women's Health page maintained by the Middleton Health Sciences Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Women's Health Sites, compiled by Flora G. Shrode as part of WSSLINKS from the Women's Studies Section of the American Library Association.
• "Women's Health Topics" Medline Plus (National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health); alphabetical list of links, by topic.
• Reproductive Health Information Source from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Google's Reproductive Health and Women's Health links.
• Yahoo's Reproductive Health and Women's Health links.

Other Women's Health Sites

• Abortion information sites linked from the Sunshine for Women site.
• Black Women's Health Imperative
• Review of breast cancer websites, by Ann Boyer, from Feminist Collections.
• Review of eating disorder websites, by Mary K. Walstrom, from Feminist Collections.
• Canadian Women's Health Network
• Center for Reproductive Rights has numerous publications concerning the U.S. and other countries.
• Endo-Online is the website of the Endometriosis Association.
• The Health Resource Guide from ELDIS: the gateway to development information, has a link to a search for "Gender and Health" documents.
• Gender and HIV/AIDS, Annotated Bibliography, by Marita Eibl and Valerie Foster, on the Michigan State University Women and International Development Program's site.
• Global Reproductive Health Forum, from Harvard University
• Links (in German) from the Graz Women's Health Center, in Austria, including a bi-lingual list of health-related terms (in German and English).
• International Women's Health Coalition is a nonprofit organization based in New York City that works with individuals and groups in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to promote women's reproductive and sexual health and rights.
• Jacobs Institute of Women's Health is a nonprofit organization" working with health care professionals, researchers, insurers, consumers and policy makers to
  improve health care for women." Site includes publications available for downloading.
• Kaiser Family Foundation's Women's Health Policy page includes links to numerous reports, surveys, and articles.
• Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network
• Museum of Menstruation
• National Women's Health Information Center is a project of the U.S. Public Health Service's Office on Women's Health. Site includes data from a variety of federal and private sector organizations.
• National Women's Health Network is the "only national public interest membership-based organization advocating for the health of all U.S. women." Site includes summaries of available kits on women's health issues, including Monpause/HRT, breast implants, breast cancer, PMS, and alternative medicine; policy papers, membership information, and instructions on how to obtain the Network's kits, newsletter, and other publications. NWHN takes no money from any pharmaceutical or medical device company, and information supplied is backed up by citations to medical literature.
• Netherlands Institute for Social Sexological Research (NISSO) Database indexes academic material on health and cultural aspects of sexuality. [Site gone, March 2005.]
• Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health Resources links.
• Our Bodies, Ourselves, the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, has a site describing the book, with a companion website of women's health information. and recommended links and resources.
• PregnancyInsurance.Org includes information about "Medicaid, maternity coverage, and alternative birthing options to help reduce prenatal care expenses." The site also includes useful links to other sites.
• Women's Health Hotline is an electronic newsletter designed to provide the media with information on women's health.

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