Health Care Response / Health Issues

HEALTH CARE RESPONSE

American Medical Association – Violence Prevention, Chicago, IL.

Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure™, American Academy of Pediatrics – provides pediatricians with guidance and patient-oriented materials to take an asset-based approach to violence prevention from birth through 21 years of age, Elk Grove Village, IL.

Emergency Nurses Association – the national Association for professional nurses dedicated to the advancement of emergency nursing practice has three position papers (below), Des Plaines, IL.

Intimate Partner and Family Violence, Maltreatment, and Neglect

Care of Sexual Assault and Rape Victims in the Emergency Department

Violence in the Emergency Care Setting

End Violence Against Women: Information and Resources – this site was developed by the INFO Project to collect and share in one central location information on the latest research, tools, project reports, and communication materials produced in the worldwide struggle to end violence against women. We aim to especially cover the intersection of violence against women and subsequent effects of this violence on women’s reproductive health. It is designed for researchers, health communication specialists, policy makers, and others, Baltimore, MD.

Health Care Programs, Family Violence Prevention Fund, San Francisco, CA.

International Association of Forensic Nurses – is the only international professional organization of registered nurses formed exclusively to develop, promote, and disseminate information about the science of forensic nursing, Pitman, NJ.

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

Nursing Network on Violence Against Women, International – the mission is to eliminate violence through advancing nursing education, practice, research, and public policy, Modesto, CA.

State Health Facts Online – The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation – this resource contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation, Menlo Park, CA and Washington, DC.

HEALTH ISSUES

County Health Rankings – the first set of reports to rank the overall health of every county in all 50 states. The report released by the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, help public health and commuity leaders, policy-makers, consumers and others to see how healthy their county is, compare it with others within their state and find ways to improve the health of their community. Each county is ranked within the state on how healthy people are and how long they live. They also are ranked on key factors that affect health such as: smoking, obesity, binge drinking, access to primary care providers, rates of high school graduation, rates of violent crime, air pollution levels, liquor store density, unemployment rates and number of children living in povert. News Release, February 10, 2010.

kNOwMORE – Violence. Reproductive Health. Different issues. Different places to go for help. Different conversations. That's the way it works today – in politics, health care, the public discourse. But that's not the way it works in real life. Not for millions of women, especially young adults, whose reproductive health is affected by sexual and domestic violence. This website, from the Family Violence Prevention Fund, is about telling our stories, finding a common language, sharing the truth. Read about women with stories to tell, and tell yours. Learn about the reproductive health consequences of violence and sexual coercion. Say 'no more' to reproductive coercion. Know more about how to stop it. Say more to anyone and everyone who will listen, San Francisco, CA.

National Women's Health Information Center's Violence Against Women,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

Quick Health Data Online, Office On Women's Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – the system provides state- and county-level data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories and possessions. Data are available by gender, race and ethnicity and come from a variety of national and state sources. The system is organized into eleven main categories, inlcuding demographics, mortality, natality, reproductive health, violence, prevention, disease and mental health. Within each main category, there are numerous subcategories, Washington, DC.

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research – one of the nation's leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health policy information for California. Established in 1994, the Center is based in the UCLA School of Public Health. The Center improves the public's health by advancing health policy through research, public service, community partnership, and education, Los Angeles, CA.

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