U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office on Women's Health

Region I - Women's Health Agenda

To address these health concerns, Region 1 has established a regional women's health agenda. The women's health priorities for Region I are:

To act in an advisory capacity with representatives from each state public health entity and key regional federal program staff
To promote awareness and appropriate responses to the impact of domestic violence in the workplace
To promote reduction of breast and cervical cancer mortality in the Region by diagnosing breast and cervical cancer at earlier stages
To co-facilitate the NECON (New England Conference on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention) Task Force on Women's Health and promote implementation of the Task Force recommendations.
To increase awareness and region-wide prevention activities on cardiovascular disease in women through a Region I Summit
To promote reduction of HIV transmission to women and advocate for appropriate prevention and treatment strategies.

Current as of July 2005

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