Women's Data Center From the not-for-profit Institute for Women's Policy Research.
POPLINE® (POPulation information onLINE) provides more than 350,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population studies, family planning, women's studies, and related environmental and health issues. Primarily English, but also includes many abstracts in French and Spanish. A limit to peer-reviewed articles feature is available. Maintained by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development. Coverage: 1970 to present (some of the materials indexed date back to 1886). Some Full-Text.
From Georgetown University, "These resources include links to websites, electronic publications, databases, discussion groups, and other materials."
CDC - Women's Health Published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this site provides access to a variety of publications and other resources on current health issues facing women in the United States.
Fertility of American Women – U. S. Census Bureau
This site provides data on the fertility of American women for the noninstitutionalized population. It includes detailed information from recent surveys and access to tables with historical trends.
Global Library of Women's Medicine
Based on the six-volume Gynecology and Obstetrics series, this peer reviewed website provides access to over 442 expert chapters with detailed clinical guidance on most aspects of women's medicine. Topics covered include: maternal and fetal medicine, obstetrics, gynecologic oncology, and more. Also featured is a “Safer Motherhood” section, video library, information on lab tests, and patient information leaflets.
Lost Mothers: Maternal Mortality in the United States
National Public Radio (NPR) and ProPublica collaborated to create this investigative series about the causes of maternal mortality in the United States. This series presents the stories of individual families, alongside research that provides insight into why women in the United States face serious -- and sometimes fatal -- health risks during pregnancy and childbirth. Links to other resources are also included.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health provides Quick Health Data Online, formerly known as the National Women's Health Indicators Database, an interactive system that provides reliable and easily accessible health data to help assess needs, develop programs, and inform policies.
The Women’s Health and Mortality Chartbook is a statistical resource on women’s health in each of the states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The chartbook was developed to provide readers with an easy-to-use collection of current jurisdiction data on critical issues of relevance to women. A total of 28 different health indicators are featured, which highlight some of the key issues related to women’s health that are being measured regularly at the state level.
The Health Disparities Profiles examines key health indicators at the state level for different racial and ethnic populations in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Twenty-two health indicators are presented, which highlight some of the key areas related to health disparities among different populations. It can be used as a reference for policymakers and program managers to identify areas where major health disparities exist in each state.
ClinicalTrials.gov is a research database and registry of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants maintain by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institute of Health (NIH). It is a resource that provides patients, researchers, health care professionals, and the public access to a wide range of clinical studies on diseases and conditions.
ResearchMatch is an NIH funded initiative with the collaboration of several academic institutions to connect people searching for research studies, and for researchers seeking people to participate in their studies. it is a free and secure registry for the public with clinical studies looking for health participants to participants with specific health conditions.
The NIH Clinical Research Studies is a database on clinical research studies conducted at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The Clinical Center hosts a wide range of studies from rare diseases to chronic health conditions, as well as studies for healthy volunteers. Users can search by diagnosis, sign, symptom, other key words, or institution.
Offers current research findings and policy analyses concerning reproductive health and rights in the U. S. and internationally. Resources include articles from Institute publications, policy papers, fact sheets, and a "table maker" to create your own data tables.
An independent, non-profit organization providing news coverage of reproductive rights legal issues, information about the status of reproductive rights around the world, fact sheets, and more. Some materials are available in Spanish and French as well as English.
This site provides an extensive, well-organized list of resources concerning pregnancy and childbirth.
Nonprofit organization dedicated to improving women's health worldwide. The site offers abundant information about women's health issues, with an international focus.
A wide variety of resources for women. Extensive information on women and work, violence against women, lesbian issues, and global feminism.
Information about abortion, birth control, breast cancer, menopause, and other women's health issues. Much of the site is also available in Spanish.
Geared towards women whose family history and genetic status put them at high risk of getting ovarian cancer and/or breast cancer. Includes, message boards, chat, and links to relevant sites.
Sponsored by UNIFEM, the web portal is a resource center for gender-specific information about HIV/AIDS.
Basic level health information provided by the U.S. government including an encyclopedia of health topics and a guide to healthy living.
Offers very extensive, authoritative information on a vast number of women's health topics from the National Library of Medicine.
This site provides information on women's health to lay people and health professionals. Includes special sections on topics such as girls' health, heart disease, disabilities, and pregnancy.
Sponsored by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, and offering links to women's health information for lay people and health professionals. Special sections on topics such as girls' health, heart disease, minority women, disabilities, and pregnancy.
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.
This site provides useful information about issues in women's health care and well-organized statistics and links to related sites.
Reliable information on women's health issues.
Associated with the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists. Provides information about risk factors, referrals, links to related sites, women's cancers, and more.
An extensive, high-quality Canadian site offering women's health news, interviews with women's health professionals, information about a wide variety of women's health issues.
Extensive, annotated list of sites with resources on women and women's issues, including activism, health, women of color and sexuality.
