Many Women Experience Health Care Cost Barriers
Source Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008 Kaiser Women’s Health Survey
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Many Older Women on Medicare are Impoverished
FeatureSource Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Access to Care file, 2006
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Many Older Women Have Limitations That Predispose Them to Needing Long-term Care
FeatureMany Older Women Have Limitations That Predispose Them to Needing Long-term Care Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Access to Care file, 2006
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Improving maternity and infant birth outcomes in the U.S.
FeatureImproving maternity and infant birth outcomes in the U.S. Download Source Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2002. Care of Women in U.S. Hospitals, 2000
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Half of Women with Disabilities are Covered By Medicaid
FeatureHalf of Women with Disabilities are Covered By Medicaid Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation/Urban Institute analysis of the 2009 American Community Survey
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The Women, Girls, and Gender Equality Principle of the U.S. Global Health Initiative: How Have USG Programs Responded?
ReportThis report examines how countries are responding to and implementing the women, girls, and gender equality principle of the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI). This principle, one of seven core principles of the GHI, aims to sharpen the focus on women and girls across U.S. government global health efforts. Based on interviews conducted by the Foundation with representatives from 15 GHI country teams, this report identifies nine key themes and trends that could help inform…
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2012 Survey of Americans on the U.S. Role in Global Health
ReportThe 2012 Survey of Americans on the U.S. Role in Global Health is the fourth in a series that aims to examine the American public’s views, knowledge and opinions of U.S. efforts to improve health for people in developing countries.
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Statutory Requirements & Policies Governing U.S. Global Family Planning and Reproductive Health Efforts
Issue BriefThis issue brief provides a summary of the major policies and statutory requirements governing U.S. participation in international family planning and reproductive health efforts. These laws and policies collectively direct how funds are spent, which organizations receive funds and generally shape U.S. family planning and reproductive health activities around the world.
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The Women, Girls, and Gender Equality Principle of the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI): Assessment of the GHI Plus Country Strategies
ReportThis report assesses how countries are responding to a U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) principle to address women, girls and gender equality. The report examines country strategies for seven of the eight "GHI Plus" nations: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, and Nepal. (The eighth, Rwanda, had not yet completed its strategy.) Each country strategy was developed by interagency U.S. government teams in consultation with host country representatives. All seven strategies addressed the health of…
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The U.S. Global Health Initiative’s Women, Girls, and Gender Equality Principle: A Roundtable Discussion
Issue BriefThis document summarizes the discussion of a roundtable that took place at the Foundation in November 2010 examining the women, girls and gender equality principle of the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI). This principle, the first of seven core principles of the GHI, aims to sharpen the focus on women and girls across U.S. government global health efforts. The roundtable included experts from a variety of organizations, including officials from the U.S. government, and gender…