Guidelines for Counseling Women on the Management of Menopause
Designed for use in conjunction with the National Committee for Quality Assurances (NCQA) HEDIS® Management of Menopause measure and endorsed by the NCQA and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Womens Health and Managed Care: Opportunities for Action, A Report of Recommendations from the National Summit on Womens Health and Managed Care
Co-published by the Jacobs Institute of Womens Health and the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP), the Report offers health plans and clinicians ideas and strategies for improving services to women.
Value Purchasing:
Investing in Women's Health
June 17, 1999, Conference for Health Insurance Purchasers
"Good womens health is good business and good for the bottom line," said Nikki Heidepriem, JD, in her welcoming address at the Jacobs Institute conference "Value Purchasing: Investing in Womens Health." Heidepriem, a member of the Institutes Board of Governors, underscored the reason the Jacobs Institute, in conjunction with the Washington Business Group on Health, convened the meeting of health insurance purchasers: "We know you can purchase better value by taking into account the unique health care needs of women."
The participantshuman resources directors, medical directors, benefits managers, and others charged with negotiating contracts and services with health insurers for their companys employeesrepresented such corporations as the Coca Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, Ford Motor Company, Perdue Farms, Procter and Gamble, Sara Lee Corporation, the U.S. Postal Service, and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. They came to Washington, DC, June 17 to learn what some companies and health plans are doing to better address the health care needs of women. (See "Investing in Womens Health: Models for Success.")
For details about the conference, click here.
Insights: A Compilation of the Jacobs Institute's Women's Health and Managed Care Briefing Papers
The Series Briefing papers:
Women's Primary Care in Managed Care: Clinical and Provider Issues
Health Plans and Purchasers: Managing Women's Primary Care
Managed Care and Unintended Pregnancy: Testing the Limits of
Prevention
Confronting STD's: A challenge for Managed Care
Managed Care and Women's Mental Health: A Focus on Depression
Medicaid Managed Care: The Challenge of Providing Care to Low-Income
Women
Neither Prevention nor Cure: Managed Care for Women with Chronic
Conditions
Quality in Women's Health: Taking the Measure of Managed Care
The Commonwealth Fund
Henry J. Kaiser
Family Foundation
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories
Lilly Center for Women's Health,
Eli Lilly & Company
Program Officers
Karen Scott Collins, MD, MPH
The Commonwealth Fund
Felicia H. Stewart, MD
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Carol L. Jane
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories
Irene Brandt
Eli Lilly & Company
Jacobs Institute
Constance J. Bohon, MD, FACOG
President
Martha C. Romans
Executive Director
Julianna S. Gonen, PhD
Research Associate
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Project Sponsors |
Project Advisory Committee Chair Committee Arnold Cohen, MD, FACOG Leo J. Dunn, MD, FACOG Mary Jane England, MD Jinnet Fowles, PhD Marthe R. Gold, MD, MPH Ira M. Golditch, MD, FACOG Eileen Hoffman, MD Elizabeth McGlynn, PhD Alina Salganicoff, PhD Roberta L. Wyn, PhD |
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