Women’s Health During Health Care Transformation

Leading change during health care transformation.

The time is now. Over the past decade, health care providers have heard about the unprecedented redesign of the health care system. With the presidential election fast approaching, waves of uncertainty are swirling around the Affordable Care Act. No matter the outcomes of the November elections and their impact to the health care reform bill, there are sustainable aspects that will continue to ...

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Health care reform: the doorway to health care transformation.

On March 23, 2010, US President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 20101,2 (Pub L. No. 111–148). At his side was Marcelas Owens, an 11-year-old boy whose mother had passed away after she lost her health insurance. Several days later, President Obama signed a companion piece of legislation (Pub L. No. 111–152)3 that created an unprecedented health reform packag...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality