LESSON 14.1

Hawaii DOH Strategic Plan (2015-2018)


Strategies to Improve Women’s Health

  • Diversity requires individualization of health care
    • Ohana and community based foci
  • Increase access to health care
    • Increasing the nursing workforce
    • Structuring health care to maximize nursing’s effectiveness
  • Health policy and political activism
    • Education of nurses about how to effectively change policy
    • Nursing’s presence at all levels of policy development to reduce health disparities in women
  • 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.