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Resources: Women’s Links


	Some of the resources we have found helpful. If you know of others or would like to have your group included, please let WUHI know.

	National Women's Health Network
		The National Women's Health Network is the only national public interest membership organization dedicated exclusively to women's health. Advocates for a health care system that is appropriate for all women, as consumers and providers, and improve access to health care services for poor women, older women, women of color, lesbians, rural women, and disabled women.

	Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
		Authors of many excellent books on women’s health, including the famous ‘OurBodies, OurSelves’. Has excellent information on women’s needs in a reformed health system.

	Raising Women’s Voices
		Raising Women's Voices is a national initiative to support quality, affordable health care for all. They work to raise women's voices for the health care we need. Their goal is to engage a broad array of women's health advocates in local, state and national health reform discussions to ensure that women's concerns will be addressed and the health care we get will truly be health care for all. RWV is committed to raising women's voices in state and national debates over health care reform, so that women's perspectives about their health care needs and those of their families can be powerfully articulated, genuinely considered and incorporated into health care reform plans.

	OWL [Older Women’s League]
		The only national grassroots membership organization to focus solely on issues unique to women as they age. Major project is for women’s health advocacy. Primary support of the original Campaign for Women’s Health.

	American Medical Women’s Association
		An organization of 10,000 women physicians and medical students dedicated to serving as the unique voice for women's health and the advancement of women in medicine. Has substantial information on health care reform.

	RedStockings
		Red Stockings has developed a new sourcebook: Women's Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America Women's Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America makes a feminist case for national health insurance, proposing a tactical shift for American feminism. Winning national health insurance, the book argues, is a first step in a larger strategy for advancing economic independence for women and equality between the sexes.
	Resources: General Links
	Families USA
		A national advocacy information sharing organization, working to improve access to appropriate health care as well as advocating for universal health care.

	Physicians for a National Health Program
		Physicians for a National Health Program is a single issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health care program. Has chapters across the United States.

	UHCAN - Universal Health Care Action Network
		A nationwide network of individuals and organizations, committed to achieving health care for all. Provides a national resource center, facilitates information sharing and the development of strategies for health care justice.

	Everybody In, Nobody Out
		EINO educates the public, encouraging state movement towards an equitable health care system guaranteeing universal access to care, to be accomplished by support of grassroots organizing and empowerment of those communities most at-risk in the current health care system. A focus on the 'Right to Health Care' is recommended as the best strategy to empower these communities.

	Center for Policy analysis
		The Center for Policy Analysis is an independent organization dedicated to protecting human health and expanding access to health care, water, and other vital human services. One of the best sites for current critical analysis of health care policy and health care reform proposals. Also sponsors a resource list for informattion and advocacy on health reform. The list is sponsored by EQUAL Health (Equitable, Quality, Universal, Affordable Health), a project of the Center for Policy Analysis. New members can join the list by sending a blank email to: join-equal@list.equalhealth.info

	Health Insurance and Women
		Developed by the National Women's Health Information Center, of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a basic explanation of how health insurance impacts on women. Includes resources for women without health insurance.

Women's Universal Health Initiative is a project of Women's Health Institute