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4 Future Research Directions
Pages 49-56

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... and co-study director Rose Marie Martinez presented a summary of the key issues discussed in the workshop as a basis for developing a research agenda for the future. Salganicoff identified several cross-cutting issues that emerged as workshop themes: • More good, accessible, and consistent data that illuminate the issues in women's health are needed and critically important.
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... • Understanding the roles of education, socioeconomic status, employment, and the social context on women's health requires interdisciplinary research and interdisciplinary training. In addition to these themes that were discussed by many workshop presenters and participants, Salganicoff noted three other topics that she said emerged from those presentations and discussions: • It is important to assess the impact of public policies on health.
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From page 51...
... The key question -- which pertains to both men and women -- is how to integrate precision medicine with population health. It was suggested that the research community needs to incorporate gender in precision-medicine development activities, not using gender as a control variable, but seeking to understand the main effects and interaction effects of gender.
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From page 52...
... Some of the HRSA uniform data system measures, which are similar to measures in the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, include early entry to prenatal care, tobacco cancer screening, and low birth weight, so many pertinent data points important to women's health are measured. Another participant said, however, that there are still improvements to be made by HRSA.
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From page 53...
... She reminded the participants that government agencies are not permitted to play an advocacy role. Another participant supported international comparisons as a means of understanding the health of women in the United States.
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... It served to identify key factors at the system, federal, state, patient, and provider levels that might explain the comparative deficiency of the health of women in the United States. Cornelison said that the workshop identified key research areas to decrease mortality and morbidity, for both the short and long term.
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... FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS 55 to communicate, educate, disseminate information to journal editors and colleagues and get the word to all women in the United States. When the health of women in the United States improves, the health of the United States improves.
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