Women’s health goals more distant
Most U.S. states have made little progress toward improving women’s health and many have fallen behind as rates of obesity and diabetes continue to climb, a new 50-state report released Wednesday showed.
“The nation as a whole and individual states are falling farther behind in the quest to meet the national goals for women’s health,” said Judy Waxman of the National Women’s Law Center, which released the report along with the Oregon Health & Science University.
The groups looked at 27 measures of women’s health, ranging from the rates of routine screening tests for breast and colon cancer to obesity and access to health care. The benchmarks were based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 initiative. The full report is available at www.nwlc.org.
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