Health Professionals: Your Role in Women's Health

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There are numerous sources of health information available to your patients. Credibility and quality of information can be a problem, whether information comes from a web site, a popular magazine, a newspaper, a radio or TV program, a friend or other source. Now you can give your patients reliable, accurate sources of health information from womenshealth.gov and girlshealth.gov. The following fact sheets and resources are developed from current research and recommendations from the federal government and health professional organizations. Share these resources with your patients — the information is free and can be downloaded.

• A variety of materials, including breastfeeding and prevention guides in English, Spanish, and Chinese, are available by calling our toll free call center.
• You and your patients can also download over 80 fact sheets on topics ranging from HPV to type 2 diabetes.  
• The Office on Women’s Health recently published a comprehensive resource, The Healthy Woman: A Complete Guide for All Ages, available in bookstores and online today.
• For your young patients or the mothers you help, girlshealth.gov is a valuable site created to help girls (ages 10-16) learn about health, growing up, and issues they may face. It focuses on health topics that girls are concerned about and helps motivate them to choose healthy behaviors by using positive, supportive, and non-threatening messages.
• Additional government resources available include The Heart Truth, Healthy People 2010, AIDS.gov, and Drugs@FDA.

Content last updated December 1, 2008.