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Women’s Health Today – June 22 Show

Friday, June 22nd 8am MST
Women’s Health Today
on KUNM 89.9fm or www.kunm.org
Listen to the promo here
Listen to the full show

What makes a family in NM healthy and able to thrive? My guests will include Jessica Aranda, with Southwest Creations Collaborative, Adriann Barboa, with Strong Families NM, and Kelsey Heilman, with the NM Center on Law and Poverty.

The Basic Family Budget Calculator is available here.

The NM Task Force on Work Life Balance is addressing some of the issues raised on the show. It’s 2011 report is available and the task force will report to the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee again later this year.
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Women’s Health Today is about women for everyone. How does being a woman or a man impact your health? Does health and other policy adequately address systemic problems and root causes of ill health? Women’s Health Today looks at health from an interdisciplinary and woman-centered perspective, examining the many biological, psychological, environmental and social factors effecting health.

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Turn the Curve on Health – attend an event in your area

The New Mexico Department of Health is hosting 4 Turn the Curve on Health planning events throughout the state May 9 – 31, 2012 for community and Tribal partners statewide to discuss how we may work in partnership toward population based change related to nine (9) specific health areas.

If you would like to participate in this hopeful process, please access the link for the event in your area and register to Turn the Curve on Health in your public health region:

Register to Turn the Curve on Health in the Northwest Region of New Mexico (PHD Region 1, Northwest NM): May 9, 2012 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Lunch on your own) HOWARD JOHNSON 2915 W. Historic Highway 66 Gallup, NM 87301

Register to Turn the Curve on Health in the Northeast Region of New Mexico (PHD Region 2, Northeast NM): Turn the Curve on Health Location and Contact Information May 31, 2012 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Lunch on your own) COURTYARD MARRIOTT 3347 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM 87507

Register to Turn the Curve on Health – Central Region (PHD Region 3 – ABQ Metro), co- hosted by Bernalillo County Community Health Council: May 15, 2012 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Lunch on your own) RAMADA ALBUQUERQUE HOTEL 10300 Hotel Avenue NE Albuquerque, NM 87123

Register to Turn the Curve on Health – Southwest Region (PHD Region 5, Southwest NM): May 22, 2012 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Lunch on your own) DAYS INN & SUITES MESILLA VALLEY CONFERENCE CENTER 901 Avenida de Mesilla Las Cruces, NM 88005

If you have questions, please contact the individual listed on the registration page for the event you wish to attend.

I hope you are able to join this important movement from talk to action!

Thank you! The DOH Turn the Curve on Health Team

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Women’s Health Policy Forum 2012 Program and Presentations

This year’s Policy Forum focused on Health Care Reform Implementation and Implications for Women.  We also worked on “turning the curve” on selected women’s health indicators. Read the agenda and program here: NMWHPF-Program-FINAL-web
Click on the links below to read the presentations.

Justina Trott IOM Research 050212

Nancy Lee ACA Preventive Services 050212

Kelsey Heilman Basic Health Plan 050212

Micaela Cadena LegislativeUpdate 050212

Anna Benyo SCOTUS 050212

GiovannaRossi WH Indicators 050212

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6th Annual Women’s Health Policy Forum

Health Care Reform Implementation and Implications for Women
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May 2, 2012
8:30am-3:30pm
Savage Auditorium
Presbyterian Hospital
1100 Central Avenue SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106

Parking:

– Conference attendees can park anywhere visitors to the hospital are allowed to park.

– Once you turn into the hospital entrance, visitors can park on the right in the parking structure attached to the hospital or on the left hand side that is marked “Visitors.”

Directions to Savage Auditorium from Lobby:

Enter the Hospital at the main entrance. Go LEFT from the Information Desk to the D Elevators (Purple Wall). Go DOWN one level to Sub-Level 1 (S1). Savage Auditorium is directly opposite the elevator.

Questions? Email: rebecca (at) collectiveactionstrategies (dot) com

Sponsored by: RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM, Gender Impacts Policy, Molina Healthcare, Presbyterian Health Plan, NM DOH Family Health Bureau

Objectives:

1. Provide advocates in the field the opportunity to network and share updates from the 2012 NM legislative session and Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation issues.
2. Discuss issues related to ACA, focusing specifically on women and families in New Mexico.
3. Create Policy Recommendations for better coverage and access to care for women and families in New Mexico.

Advocates, community organizations, policy makers, and business leaders interested in health care policy are encouraged to attend. Seating is limited.

The Policy Forum is free of charge, but registration is required by April 20th.

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Women’s Health Today to Focus on Health Care Reform Impact on Women

What does health care reform do for women? When a majority of women want and use birth control, why are we having a national debate about insurance coverage of contraception? Hear from the National Women’s Law Center’s senior health policy analyst Anna Benyo, as she gives us the scoop on benefits impacting women.  Join us Friday morning, March 23, 2012, for Women’s Health Today at 8am MST on KUNM 89.9fm or kunm.org.

Women’s Health Today :30 Promo 3.23.12

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Contraception issues, nursing breaks on tap as women’s health advocates discuss health reform at Tuesday UNM event

– Media Advisory –

Groups to highlight nursing breaks and other benefits such as contraception in Affordable Care Act

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 20th – Women’s health advocates will be on UNM’s campus on Tuesday, March 20th, to educate students about important new benefits in the Affordable Care Act for women. These benefits include nursing breaks for new mothers, contraception coverage and new preventative care benefits coming online in 2012. This event is part of a series of events celebrating the two-year anniversary of the passage of ACA this week.

WHO: State of Women’s Health New Mexico and several other community-based women’s health organizations

WHAT: Event calling attention to nursing breaks in health reform law as well as new benefits in 2012

WHERE: University of New Mexico. Student Union Building Atrium

WHEN: March 20, 2012 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

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Support for the Task Force on Work Life Balance

Senate Bill 272 appropriates $75,000 to UNM BBER to complete the work of the Task Force on Work Life Balance.

Read and track the bill here.

Senate Bill 272 appropriates $75,000 from the GENERAL FUND to the Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico for the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) to cover expenses related to completing the work of the Task Force on Work-Life Balance pursuant to House Memorial 1 of the First Session of the Fiftieth Legislature, including outreach to small business owners.

 

YEAR 1 – With the help of Giovanna Rossi, who acted as facilitator, BBER convened the task force with the involvement of State various agencies and with representation from other organizations as laid out in the legislation.  The Task Force met as a full task force 5 times in each case for 2-hour sessions. As required, in early October, the Task Force made a preliminary report of finding to the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee.  That report consisted of a power point presentation and two detailed matrices summarizing research regarding the impacts of family friendly policies.

 

YEAR 2 – The agenda for the second year of this task force is ambitious in its goals both to develop and awards program and to develop a set of policy recommendations.  To provide a sound basis for policy recommendations, the Task Force plans to reach out to the business community, for example, by recruiting business people to serve on the task force, by holding meetings in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces, where we can meet with local Chambers of Commerce, and by conducting focus groups with large and small businesses in communities around the state.  The Task Force also intends to undertake a careful review of the family friendly policies that have been implemented in other states and in other countries, including an analysis of the costs and benefits of these policies as well as their suitability to the conditions in New Mexico.

 

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Women’s Health Congress 2012

March 16-18, 2012

Washington, DC

Widespread Praise for the Annual Congress on Women’s Health

“The Women’s Health Congress is, year after year, the most exciting and innovative update on the whole gamut of women’s health issues I know. And it’s a tremendous value for CME dollars.”
John Partridge, MD, Richmond, VA

“I can honestly say that it was the best medical conference I have ever attended. The quality of the talks was consistently excellent, and the topics were great and on target. Even though there were various types of providers present, there was something to learn from each presentation for NP’s, docs, primary care, and OB’s.”
Barbara Gottlieb, MD, MPH, Harvard

“Excellent program…I will definitely spread the word to my colleagues.”
Yolanda Hacker, M.D., Atlanta

“The lectures were topical and the discussions were spirited. Befriending some wonderfully dynamic women was an added bonus.”
Cathy Sila, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Foundation

“It was a pleasure to hear cutting-edge information presented by high-powered speakers in such a friendly environment.”
Ann Morrison, R.N., Johns Hopkins