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Rethinking a Women’s Health Care Agenda in the United States

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Women’s health care issues are increasingly a part of the political agenda in the United States. The organized women’s movement has been successful in improving opportunities for women in a number of areas such as education, business, sports and other professions. It has often been successful in changing the definition of women’s health and placing many elements of women’s health care needs on the policy agenda of the United States. Among the areas now recognized as part of the women’s health agenda are inclusiveness of women as part of National Institutes of Health research projects, attention to the risks of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, violence against women, women and the diseases of aging and women as personal and professional caregivers. Also, an area of progressive attention as well as political reaction concerning women’s health is the subject of women’s reproductive rights—including the availability of abortion and, in some instances, contraception.

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Palley, M.L., Palley, H.A. (2014). Rethinking a Women’s Health Care Agenda in the United States. In: The Politics of Women’s Health Care in the United States. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008633_1

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