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Women and National Health Care Reform Chartpack
In October 2011, the Women's Health Policy and Advocacy Program published the chartpack entitled "Women and Health Reform: How National Health Care Reform Can Enhance Coverage, Affordability and Access for Women." This chartpack outlines crucial women's health issues that state and federal policymakers should consider as implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act progresses. Dr. Paula Johnson also presented findings from this chartpack to staffers from the United States House of Representatives and Senate.
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Massachusetts Health Reform: Impact on Women's Health Issue Brief
Published in June 2010, "Massachusetts Health Reform: Impact on Women's Health" is the first report of its kind, examining how Massachusetts health reform has impacted access and cost of care among women in the Commonwealth. This issue brief examines women's health benefits, issues related to specific populations of women, affordability, transitions in insurance coverage and provides lessons for state and national health reform. The brief was written for the Women's Health Policy and Advocacy Forum on Women's Health and Massachusetts Health Reform held June 2, 2010 at the Suffolk University Law School.
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Out of the Shadows: Women and Lung Cancer
Published in April 2010, "Out of the Shadows: Women and Lung Cancer" is the first-ever comprehensive report on women and lung cancer written for non-medical audiences. Intended as a call to action for women, "Out of the Shadows" discusses differences between women and men in lung cancer risk, treatment and survival; highlights gaps in current knowledge; and makes public policy recommendations to decrease the burden of the disease in women and men. The report was created as a tool for policymakers, researchers, clinicians, patients and advocates.
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Disparities in Lung Cancer Research
Doctors Yolanda Colson, MD, PhD and Onkar Kullar, MD, discuss the disparity between lung cancer incidence and funding and advocate for increased research funding. Their editorial, which was published in volume 138 of The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, can be downloaded here.
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Health Reform Guide Helps Women Understand the Candidate's Proposal
In October 2008, the program published a non-partisan, consumer-friendly guide to Senator John McCain's and Senator Barack Obama's health care proposals. Designed to help women of all ages, backgrounds and health circumstances understand what each candidate’s reform plan would mean to them, the report presented the stories of seven "fictional women" - Lily, Alisa, Meghan, Sondra, Romi, Lenora and Margaret - each with a different set of health problems and insurance coverage. The report, Health Care Reform and the 2008 Election - A Guide for Women, can be downloaded here.
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Issue Brief: Women's Health Policy and the 2008 Election
In October 2008, the program collaborated with the Kaiser Family Foundation to examine how a broad range of women's health policy issues fared under the Obama and McCain health plans. Issues examined included insurance coverage expansions; affordability of care; scope of benefits; prevention and chronic disease; reproductive health; long term care; provider shortages; coordination of care; sex- and gender-based research; and caregiving. Two documents published by the Kaiser Family Foundation - an Issue Brief outlining major health policy challenges facing women and summarizing the candidates positions on these issues, and a Side-by-Side Analysis of the candidates' plans on women's health - summarize this work.
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