50-STATE REPORT CARD ON WOMEN’S HEALTH
Audio Press Conference Release October 17
A comprehensive report card to be released this month by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), will rank all 50 states and the District of Columbia on women’s health. Experts from NWLC and OHSU will discuss the report’s findings during a teleconference briefing Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 1 p.m. EDT.
Making the Grade for Women’s Health 2007 is the third in a series of triennial report cards analyzing state and national performance on 27 benchmarks for women’s health, based on objectives set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 agenda. The benchmarks include health insurance coverage, obesity rates, mammograms and other cancer and preventive health screenings, smoking rates, diabetes rates and maternal mortality rates among others. The report also analyzes whether state policies are sufficient to meet these key women’s health objectives.
To learn more about how the nation or your state fared on these critical women’s health measures, we invite you to participate in a briefing during which all of the report’s findings will be discussed.
AUDIO PRESS CONFERENCE
Wednesday, Oct. 17
1 p.m. EDT
Toll-Free Dial-In Number: 877-857-6161
Password: 3110455
SPEAKERS: Marcia Greenberger, Co-President, NWLC
Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health, NWLC
Michelle Berlin, MD, MPH, Oregon Health Sciences University
The embargoed report will be available online on Oct. 17 at www.nwlc.org.
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The National Women’s Law Center is a non-profit organization that has been working since 1972 to advance and protect women’s legal rights. The Center focuses on major policy areas of importance to women and their families including economic security, education, employment and health, with special attention given to the concerns of low-income women. For more information on the Center, visit: www.nwlc.org.
