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Welfare Reform & Women's Health

Five Years Later: Poor Women's Health Coverage

Goals of welfare reform

Children's coverage

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)

Aid to Families with Dependent Children

General Accounting Office

Digestive disorders, hearing problems, heart conditions, and mental retardation

The National Governors Association

Urban Institute

US Department of Health and Human Services

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Reference 4 - HHS Reports, etc.


Other Relevant Links to Welfare Reform

KFF State Health Facts Online

Free or Low Cost Health Insurance for Children

Finding Common Ground at Columbia University

 


Overhauling Welfare: Implications for Women's Reproductive Health By Heather Boonstra, and Rachel Benson Gold

Out-of-wedlock childbearing

Abstinence-only education

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)

Cash assistance

Implications for women of reproductive health age

Aid to Families of Dependent Children

Urban Institute

Welfare Reform, Marriage & Sexual Behavior

Welfare Law and the Drive to Reduce Illegitimacy

Illegitimacy Bonus

The Alan Guttmacher Institute

Activities to prevent teenage pregnancies

Grants to support local initiatives

Family cap

Center for Law and Social Policy

Requirement that unmarried minor mothers, with few exceptions, live at home or in some other supervised setting

The National Fatherhood Initiative

Women's vulnerability to HIV

 

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Medicine: A Woman's Career

When AMWA was founded in 1915, women represented 5-6% of all physicians in the U.S. The organization's statement of purpose was, "to bring Medical Women into communication with each other for their mutual advantage, and to encourage social and harmonious relations within and without the profession."

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Health Care Advocacy

A leading advocate for women's health and women in medicine, AMWA is an active participant in setting national health care policy and influencing legislation on women's health issues.

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