In a new Health Affairs Forefront article, Julia Strasser and Ellen Schenk recommend changes to make it easier for pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraception.
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The latest Editor's Choice study examines laws that promote treatment for drug use during pregnancy and those that punish pregnant people for drug use.
On March 29, Dr. Jamila Perritt, President and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health, will deliver the annual Brandt Memorial Lecture in Women's Health.
In a Feb. 8 webinar, speakers from the Jacobs Institute, the GW Center for Community Resilience, and the Institute for Women's Policy Research will unveil a national policy agenda, "Promoting Health and Wellbeing Across the Lifespan."
Cassondra Marshall, DrPH, MPH, has joined the Women’s Health Issues Editorial Board.
The Women's Health Issues Editorial Board selected a winning article and two honorable mentions for the 2022 Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize
The latest Editor's Choice study examines whether maternal mortality risks mount when birthing people have multiple characteristics associated with higher risk.
Julia Strasser, DrPH, MPH, has been appointed the new director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health.
Karen A. McDonnell, PhD, has been appointed the new editor-in-chief of Women’s Health Issues.
Authors examined condom use by new LARC users and found it to be lower among those aged 20-34.
Authors compared adverse events for abortions performed by OBGYNs to those performed by other types of physicians and did not find them to be different.
In the latest Editor's Choice, authors examined whether those who gave birth for the first time at age 35 or older had a greater risk of cardiovascular disease after age 42.
In a new Editor's Note, members of the editorial board and staff of Women’s Health Issues describe how the journal approaches racism and other forms of discrimination and steps its staff and board are taking to advance equity.
WASHINGTON, DC (March 21, 2022)—Uninsurance after postpartum Medicaid insurance coverage expires—a phenomenon known as insurance churn—can leave women with limited access to care at a time when they need it.
Women's Health Issues welcomes to its editorial board two new members with expertise in multiple aspects of women's health: Ndidiamaka Amutah–Onukagha, PhD, MPH, and Kristin M. Mattocks, PhD, MPH.
The Editorial Board recognized two winning manuscripts and four honorable mentions for 2021.
Authors found that women sex workers who experience violence by intimate partners were more likely to select contraceptive methods they could use without the involvement or knowledge of partners.
Authors examined whether community college students know about low-cost options for contraception.
A new supplement provides overviews of existing research on topics important to military women's health and identifies opportunities for change.
Authors examined immediate postpartum LARC uptake in Wisconsin following an "unbundling" policy.
Authors found that Black women’s decisions about fibroid surgery were influenced by social and historical conditions as well as interactions with clinicians and social networks.
Clinicians, researchers, funders, and elected officials can all play roles in improving perinatal mental health for Latinas during a stressful time.
Achieving health equity for Black women and girls requires using a different form of policy analysis, commentary authors argue.
Women with two or more ACEs had a higher odds of unwanted, but not mistimed, pregnancy, researchers found.
A collaborative, multi-stakeholder process identified six strategic areas for equitably improving transitions to care after giving birth.
In a new commentary marking the journal’s 30th anniversary, WHI editors reflect on the research progress and social forces that have shaped women’s health and wellbeing over the past three decades.
Authors found that after ACA implementation, more female community health center patients received recommended preventive services.
The 2020 Gibbs Prize winning manuscript addresses one of the important public health issues in the United States, says WHI Editor-in-Chief Amita Vyas.
Hispanic Women with High Levels of Stress and Anxiety Gain Less Weight During Pregnancy, Study Finds
Authors found that in a group of predominantly Puerto Rican women, those with the highest levels of stress and anxiety gained less weight during pregnancy than those with the lowest levels.
To address the problem of women veterans facing harassment when seeking VA care, VA developed a training to educate providers about harassment and how they can intervene to stop it. Early results suggest the training is acceptable and effective.
Women with higher levels of postpartum perceived stress were more likely to report depressive symptoms six months later, and that relationship persisted for 24 months after giving birth.
Women's Health Issues provides a timely forum for high-quality commentaries that address critical gaps in research and policy issues of importance to the health of women.
After the ACA coverage expansions took effect, the share of preterm births paid for by private insurance increased slightly while Medicaid continued to cover nearly half.
States that accepted the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion saw maternal mortality rise more slowly than did states not expanding Medicaid, and the effect was concentrated among Black women.
A new commentary warns that efforts to restrict abortion can create an environment that criminalizes pregnancy loss and limits clinicians' ability to provide high-quality care to those who experience miscarriages or stillbirths.
A survey of advanced practice clinicians in Colorado found that many were interested or possibly interested in training to provide abortions.
Women’s interest in using an OTC progestin-only pills suggests that making this option available with no out-of-pocket cost could reduce U.S. unintended pregnancies by eight percent
WASHINGTON, DC (March 11, 2020) — Critical women’s health issues—-including reproductive health, maternal mortality, chronic disease, mental health, and gender-based violence—-have not received sufficient attention in the 2020 elections.
WASHINGTON, DC (March 10, 2020) — Studies often analyze sexual minority women as a single group—e.g., without distinguishing between lesbian, bisexual, and mostly heterosexual women—and this can obscure differences between groups of women with dif
Women's Health Issues is delighted to welcome Jodie Katon and Alina Salganicoff to the editorial board, and Kevin Frick to his new role.
Lawmakers should heed the findings of the 2019 Gibbs Prize winning manuscript, says WHI Editor-in-Chief Amita Vyas. It addresses policies on alcohol use during pregnancy.
The Jacobs Institute of Women's Health is pleased to announce selection of two MPH students and three DrPH students as recipients of the Clara Schiffer Fellowship for Women’s Health for 2020.
The types of services that publicly funded family planning clinics offer to help clients achieve pregnancy differ according to whether clinics receive funding through the Title X family planning program, found a study selected as the Editor’s Choice for the Nov/Dec issue of Women’s Health Issues.
A new commentary calls for improvements to how health care organizations and researchers serve transgender and nonbinary people, and an expansive definition of "women's health."
States have responded to rising maternal mortality by creating maternal mortality review committees, but few of these committees require rural representation, Katy Kozhimannil and colleagues found.
A new supplement adds to the growing literature on veterans’ health and contributes to broader efforts to improve reporting of results by sex/gender as well as informing ongoing work to improve care for women veterans.
Women who reported working more than one regular job at a time in the last year were more likely to report symptoms consistent with depression, found the authors of the latest Women's Health Issues Editor's Choice.
One in four women veterans who receives care at a Veterans Affairs medical center has experienced inappropriate comments or behavior from male veterans on facility grounds, a new study found.
Women's Health Issues is delighted to welcome Madina Agénor, Tracy A. Battaglia, and Lisa Harris to the editorial board.
In 2016, CDC estimated 3.3 million U.S. women are at risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancies each month. A new estimate suggests the expected actual number is substantially lower: 731,000 per month.
Authors recommend key preparatory steps that providers and practices can take to lay the foundation for trauma inquiry and response, ways to inquire about past trauma, and both immediate and longer-term steps to help patient who disclose trauma experiences.
New rules from the Trump administration permit employers to limit coverage of contraceptives without cost-sharing in employee health plans. Public health experts are concerned.
Greater unmet medical care needs among pregnant sexual minority women were due to factors including cost, frequent mental distress, and chronic conditions, researchers found.
The Editorial Board of Women’s Health Issues is pleased to announce that the Charles E. Gibbs Leadership Prize for the best paper published in Women's Health Issues in 2018 (Volume 28) has been awarded to Emily M. Johnston, PhD.
Researchers examined the care that women and men with heart attack symptoms receive from EMS after a 911 call and found that women were less likely to receive aspirin, be resuscitated, or be transported to the hospital in ambulances using lights and sirens.
Organizations that contributed to the report include science, public health, environmental, government oversight, and whistleblower protection groups.
The Jacobs Institute of Women's Health is pleased to announce selection of two MPH students and two DrPH students as recipients of the Clara Schiffer Fellowship for Women’s Health for 2019.
The latest Women's Health Issues Editor's Choice study examines the imperfect alignment between pregnancy intention and attitude in contraceptive selection.
Black women are less likely than women of other races/ethnicities to use non-opioid therapies like yoga to treat chronic pain, found a study on veterans with chronic musculoskeletal conditions.
New study's findings suggest that women with low incomes still face uneven access to the most effective forms of contraception.
Katy Kozhimannil, Director of the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center, has joined the Women’s Health Issues Editorial Board.
Insurers and providers have been working to reduce gender disparities in preventive care for those most at risk of worsening heart health, and this study shows that the work is not yet complete.
Study's findings show how gender norms relate to both unintended pregnancy and intimate partner violence.
In many states, women seeking abortions encounter multiple barriers simultaneously.
In Women's Health Issues, Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo and colleagues recommend steps to improve low rates of diagnosis and treatment of perinatal depression.
Privately Insured Women Increased Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception After ACA, Study Finds
An analysis of private insurance claims from 2006 to 2014 found an increase in insertions of IUDs and contraceptive implants after the ACA's contraceptive mandate took effect.
An analysis of nine states' Medicaid policies found that several don't explicitly cover contraceptive counseling or removal of long-acting reversible contraception.
Researchers found reductions in low-income women's uninsurance were greatest in states that expanded Medicaid after having limited eligibility to those with incomes below 50% of the federal poverty level.
Commentary proposes key research themes and practical considerations to help advance knowledge on physical activity as a pain management strategy for women.
39% of adult women and 29% of teen girls surveyed were interested in an over-the-counter progestin-only birth control pill.
When RAND Corporation researchers studied park use in high-poverty Los Angeles neighborhoods, they found women reported less park use and shorter park visits than men did.
The 2017 Gibbs Prize went to two authors: Soumitra Bhuyan, for a study on cost-related medication nonadherence, and Maeve Ellen Wallace, for an examination of the relationship between women's reproductive rights and birth outcomes.
The Jacobs Institute of Women's Health is pleased to announce selection of two MPH students and one DrPH student as recipients of the Clara Schiffer Fellowship for Women’s Health for 2018.
When Héctor E. Alcalá and colleagues examined eight kinds of adverse childhood experiences, they found seven of those experiences to be associated with higher cancer risks in women, whereas only one was linked to greater cancer risk in men.
“The ACA and other federally funded efforts have made vital gains for women’s access to high-quality preventive services and care, and it is critical for us all to mobilize to preserve these before they are lost.”
From free diapers to safe walking paths, communities across the U.S. identified local solutions to problems that disproportionately affect the health of women and girls.
Colorado researchers called 633 pharmacies and found emergency contraception to be completely accessible at only 23 percent of them.
With the help of a Zika Toolkit and other resources, several Southern states have improved Zika screening and family planning for those who could become pregnant.
Amita N. Vyas, PhD, MHS, has been appointed the new editor-in-chief of Women's Health Issues, the peer-reviewed journal of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health.
Ann Elizabeth Montgomery and colleagues found that 56% of transgender participants had been violently attacked while homeless, compared to 40% of women and 35% of men.
Depression and anxiety diagnoses within the past 12 months were more common in women who reported nonmedical prescription opioid use within the past year, study authors found.
Women in states with the highest scores on reproductive rights were less likely to deliver preterm or low-birthweight babies, found a study published in Women's Health Issues.
“A growing body of research demonstrates that the punitive approach to substance use in pregnancy does not achieve better health outcomes.” -- Susan F. Wood, PhD
A new study explores why women who want long-acting contraception after giving birth don't always get it.
“Underserved communities need more healthcare providers, not fewer.” - Sara Rosenbaum, JD
The Affordable Care Act requirement to provide accommodations for breastfeeding mothers applies to all employers, although those with fewer than 50 employees can be exempted if providing such a space is a hardship
This study represents one of the only to date to address postmenopausal health and mortality risk among the oldest generation of women veterans living in the U.S. today—those who served in World War II and the Korean War.
“This study demonstrates the importance of policies to address the needs not only of patients but of caregivers, the majority of whom are women.” - Chloe E. Bird, PhD
The commentary explores policy solutions to unanswered research questions about women's cardiovascular health
Study participants reported binge drinking in clubs increased their vulnerability to male targeting, often resulting in unintended sexual consequences
A new commentary proposes an approach to providing trauma-informed care.
Researchers compared outcomes for men and women receiving home-based care in Ontario.
"Many people still don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women," says Chloe Bird, editor-in-chief of Women’s Health Issues