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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