"Featured Health Articles" in the Guest Editors Column, The National Women's Health Information Center (1999–)

URL: http://www.4woman.gov/editor/index.htm

SITE SUMMARY: In cooperation with nationally recognized magazines, organizations, and Web sites, and their editors, the National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) features important health articles written by professionals for its online guest editor column, specifically on women's concerns, and including many of interest to girls. Examples of past articles include "Like Mom, Like Me?" (July 2002) by Catherine Cassidy of Prevention Magazine, "Stroke: Not Just Your Grandparents' Disease" (May 2001 by Patti Shwayder of the National Stroke Association, "Walk This Way" (March 2000 by Marlien Rentmeester of Women's Health and Fitness Magazine, "Genetic Counseling" (July 1999) by Laura Broadwell of Healthy Kids Magazine, and "The Best Vitamins for Women" (March 1999) by Miriam Arond of American Health Magazine. Criteria for articles chosen for the column include how the article's subject coincides with a national health observance or with a new NWHIC Web site feature.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

1. Choose an article featured in the NWHIC Guest Editors Column. Identify who wrote it, her professional status, the main point and supporting points of the article, and how the author's profession adds something important to the article. Comment on the way the article's topic, and the author's way of writing about it, may be helpful to a woman you know and to an older teen girl.
2. Visit the Web sites for the Female Patient Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association. (Their urls are cited in this book's Appendix D.) Choose two articles, one from each publication. Apply to each chosen article the parts of Question/Activity no. 1 above that start with the words identify and comment.
3. Visit the Women's Health Center at the Discovery Health Web site whose url is cited in the Related Internet Sites section below. Choose an item from the features at this Web site. Apply to this item the parts of Question/Activity no. 1 above that start with the words identify and comment.
4. Visit the Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences Web site. (See this book's Appendix C for its url.) Pretend you can send an article that will be considered for publication to the NWHIC Guest Editors Column. Think of, or find and choose, a particular subject to write about. (Tip: For help and information, find general topics [e.g., women's health and new advances, laws, work-life, fitness] in articles at the NWHIC Guest Editor Column area or in the magazines or Web sites cited and found as noted in Question/Activity no. 2 and Question/ Activity no. 3 above, or at these Web sites or Web areas cited in the Related Internet Sites section that follow: National Women's Health Information Center, Speaking of Women's Health in the Twenty-First Century, FAQs About Women's Health, Women's Health—LifeCycle.) Following the instructions at the Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences Web site, write something on your subject.

RELATED INTERNET SITE(S)

National Women's Health Information Center

http://www.4woman.gov/index.htm

See links to Women's Health News Today, What's New and Announcements, Press Releases, News Archives, General Health Related Hot Topics, plus Hot Topics in Congress, Featured Sections (e.g., health articles by guest editors), and health information for special groups including Women with Disabilities, Minority Health Information, and Health Professionals. See also links to For the Media, Dictionaries and Journals, a sitemap, and Educational Campaigns (e.g., Pick Your Path to Health and Young Women's Health Summit).

FAQs About Women's Health

http://www.4woman.gov/faq/index.htm

See the links under FAQ categories such as Adolescent Health, Environmental Health, Mental Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity, Preventive Care and Screenings, and more, including particular conditions, and areas of the body affected by conditions. Note also the link to the Women's Health Facts Daybook (2001) in PDF format.

Women's Health Center at Discovery Health

http://www.discoveryhealth.com/centers/womens/womens.html

See a search box, plus title links or annotated links to items in the categories Get the Facts (e.g., Women A to Z, Women by the Numbers, Recent News Update), On TV, Assessments, Mental Health, and more.

Women's Health—Lifecycle

http://www.womenshealth.org/n/who.htm

Find out about women's health, bodies, minds, and activities, during the various cycles of women's lives, defined here as including adolescence, the reproductive years of adulthood, mid-life, and maturity.

Speaking of Women's Health in the Twenty-First Century

http://www.swh.net/home_middle.asp (or with frames via www.swh.net/main.htm)

See the welcome and introduction page, then click links to About SWH, Your Health, or In the News (current and archives). Free registration is required for access to a weekly online newsletter and to links for a health library, health brochures, quizzes, recipes, and a multimedia theater with videos of SWH "thought leaders."