Women's Health Program

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports research on all aspects of women's health care, including quality, access, cost, and outcomes.

Priority Areas

• Enhancing the response of the health system to women's needs.
• Understanding gender differences.
• Understanding and eliminating disparities in health care.
• Empowering women to make better health care decisions.

Consumer Materials / Clinical Information / Additional Resources

Consumer Materials

Women: Stay Healthy at Any Age

This checklist for your next checkup discusses screening tests, preventive medications, and healthy behaviors to follow.

For English, go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/ppip/healthywom.htm
Also available en español; go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/ppip/healthywomsp.htm

Women and Medicines: What You Need to Know

Provides information about how medicines can work differently in women and men, and what women can do to keep their medication safe and effective.

For English, go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/wommed.htm
Also available en español; go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/spwommed.htm

Common Uterine Conditions: Options for Treatment

Provides an overview of problems that can affect a woman's reproductive system and how they can be treated, including medication, surgery, and other kinds of treatments.

For English, go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/uterine1.htm
Also available en español; go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/spanhyst/hster1.htm

You Can Quit Smoking Kit

This one-stop source for information on treatments and counseling can help smokers become tobacco-free. Materials are provided in English, Spanish, and easy-to-read formats.

Go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/tobacco/

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Clinical Information

Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS)

A PDA application and Web guide that allows clinicians to search for U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations by a patient's age, gender, and pregnancy status.

Go to: http://pda.ahrq.gov and select the Electronic Preventive Services Selector (ePSS).

Health Promotion

Recommendations on clinical preventive services and implementation tools for clinical practice including women's health concerns.

Go to: http://www.preventiveservices.ahrq.gov

Evidence-based Clinical Practice

Syntheses of scientific evidence on clinical effectiveness, behavior, and methods that address women's health topics among others.

Go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcix.htm

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Additional Resources

Information products and research findings from AHRQ relating to women's health

 Go to: http://www.ahrq.gov/research/womenix.htm

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