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Health Websites


bullet Hair Care Tips for Sisters on the Move: Feeling Fit and Looking Fine
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/sisters-on-the-move/
Hair Care Tips for Sisters on the Move: Feeling Fit and Looking Fine is a booklet on hair care and physical activity focused on African American women.

bullet Keiser Family Foundation: Women's Health Policy
http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/index.cfm

bullet National Breast Cancer Coalition
www.stopbreastcancer.org
The National Breast Cancer Coalition is the nation's largest breast cancer advocacy group, with more than 600 member organizations and 70,000 individual members and supporters. Committed to ending breast cancer, NBCC and its sister organization, the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund, work to educate and train individuals to be effective activists and to influence the public policies that affect breast cancer research and treatment.

bullet The National Women's Health Information Center
http://womenshealth.gov/
The National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC), a service of the Office on Women's Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. The NWHIC provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other women's health information resources. Our site on the World Wide Web can help you link to, read, and download a wide variety of women's health-related material developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, other Federal agencies, and private sector resources.

bullet National Women's Health Network
http://www.nwhn.org/
The National Women's Health Network is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We are the only national public interest membership organization dedicated exclusively to women's health.
We do not accept financial support from pharmaceutical companies, tobacco companies or medical device manufacturers.

bullet National Women's Health Resource Center
http://www.healthywomen.org/

bullet Planned Parenthood
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., is the world's largest and most trusted voluntary reproductive health care organization. Founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916 as America's first birth control clinic, Planned Parenthood believes in everyone's right to choose when or whether to have a child, that every child should be wanted and loved, and that women should be in charge of their own destinies.

bullet Population Council
http://www.popcouncil.org/
The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research.

bullet Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/community-health-outreach/sisters-together-program-guide
Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better is a national initiative designed to encourage Black women 18 and over to maintain a healthy weight by becoming more physically active and eating healthier foods.

bullet Women, Work, and Literacy. ERIC Digest No. 92.
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9213/work.htm



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