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Action Steps for Improving Women's Mental Health
The report brings together the most recent research, resources, products and tools on mental health issues in women and explores the role gender plays in diagnosing, treating and coping with mental illness. It also points to resilience and social support systems as key factors in overcoming mental illness and outlines specific action steps for policy-makers, health care providers, researchers and others to take in an effort to address the burden of mental illness on women's lives and increase their capacity for recovery.
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Breaking Through on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities: An Approach to Message Translation
This new issue brief explains how the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission framed these issues, describes the research-based process used to develop messages and shares messages for broader use.
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Health Disparities Calculator (HD*Calc)
It is a statistical software designed to generate multiple summary measures to evaluate and monitor health disparities (HD).
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Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
This report provides an update of the 2005 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) statement about screening for overweight in children and adolescents.
USPSTF recommends that clinicians screen children aged 6 years and older for obesity and offer them or refer them to comprehensive, intensive behavioral interventions to promote improvement in weight status.
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The Surgeon General’s Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation
This report highlights overweight and obese trends in Americans and asks them to join in First Lady’s effort to commit to changes that promote the health and wellness of families and communities. The report also indicates obesity disparities among certain groups.
This page features news, articles and discussions related to
health disparities.