CDC Preconception Health Summit

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CDC Preconception Health Summit Toward Womens
Health Cities Take Action

Helene Kent June 21, 2005
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• Are data driven
• Address the needs of urban women
• Some are natural extensions of current services,
  others require new resources and ways of working
• Illustrate practices relevant to reproductive
  health, health promotion, and disease prevention

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Six Ways to Improve Urban Womens Health

• Embrace a Broader View of WH in MCH
• Provide Leadership for UWH
• Engage in Collaborative WH Activities
• Document, Disseminate and Implement Promising
  Practices in UWH
• Engage in Training and Skills Building about UWH
• Advocate for Comprehensive Womens Health Services

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Questions

• What is the promising practice?
• How did this practice come about?
• What are the primary goals and expected results?
• What are the key strategies/activities
• What specific, measurable results have been
  achieved?

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Questions

• What are the costs?
• What else would you like your colleagues to
  know?
• What barriers were encountered and how were they
  overcome?
• What advice do you have for your colleagues?
• Contact information?

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Selection Criteria

• Extent to which query questions were addressed
• Relevance of practice to colleagues
• Degree of innovation
• Apparent ease of replication
• Addresses access, resource, or leadership issues
• Uses a broad view of womens health
• Encourages the development of comprehensive
  womens health services

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For Additional Information , Contact

• Maureen Fitzgerald
• CityMatCH
• Coordinator of Policies and Communication
• University of Nebraska Medical Center
• 982170 Nebraska Medical Center
• Omaha, Nebraska 68198-2170
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail mfitzger_at_unmc.edu
• www.citymatch.org

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Thank You!