National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

Women's Policy/Law/Insurance Issues

Avery Institute for Social Change

Center for Women's Policy Studies
The Commonwealth Fund
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
National Women's Health Network
Institute for Women's Policy Research
National Women's Law Center

Raising Women’s Voices
Women's Policy, Inc.

The Women’s Caucus

National Women’s Law Center: Reform Matters

Nowhere to Turn: How the Individual Health Insurance Market Fails Women 

The new report by the National Women's Law Center, Nowhere to Turn: How the Individual Health Insurance Market Fails Women, was released in September 2008. Download the new report now.

Many Americans are unfamiliar with the harsh realities of the individual health insurance market because they receive health insurance through an employer. However, as a number of prominent health care reform proposals consider expanding the role of the individual market, it is important to understand how this system fails women.

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You can find out more information about women's health in your state by visiting Making the Grade on Women's Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card 2007, a report by the National Women's Law Center and Oregon Health & Science University.

 

Professional Organizations & Associations

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American College of Nurse-Midwives
American Medical Association
American Medical Women's Association
American Society on Aging
Association of Women's Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals Resource Center
The Endocrine Society
National Black Nurses Association, Inc.
National Hispanic Medical Association
Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health

Women's Health Research

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
International Center for Research on Women
Office of Research on Women's Health (National Institutes of Health)
Society for Women's Health Research
Women's Research and Education Institute