Strategies to Improve Women’s Health
- Diversity requires individualization of health care
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Ohana and community based foci
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- Increase access to health care
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Increasing the nursing workforce
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Structuring health care to maximize nursing’s effectiveness
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- Health policy and political activism
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Education of nurses about how to effectively change policy
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Nursing’s presence at all levels of policy development to reduce health disparities in women
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- Research addressing women’s health within the context of their lives (e.g., physical, social, economic, psychological, cultural)
There are different strategies that can be considered to improve women’s health. These are a few broad areas that are examples of where advanced nurses can actively engage in developing, implementing and evaluating programs to improve women’s health.