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Report Finds National Women's Health Status Unsatisfactory

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Interview with Michelle Berlin, a physician and member at Oregon Health and Sciences University, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

womenshealth For the past ten years, researchers at Oregon Health and Science University have collaborated with the National Women's Law Center to produce a Women's Health Report Card. The data collected from many sources is used to develop status indicators and assess public policy options, like restricting tobacco sales and use, for example, which resulted in a drop in smoking among women.

The new report, titled, "Making the Grade on Women's Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card," shows that despite some progress on individual health status indicators, overall the nation is still far from meeting key women's health objectives -- and received a grade of "Unsatisfactory." The study notes a major increase in obesity and binge drinking among women, as well as a drop in women receiving important health screenings, such as pap smears to detect cervical cancer.

Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Michelle Berlin, a physician and researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, who worked on the report. She says results of the report are disappointing and discusses possible reasons for deficiencies.

MICHELLE BERLIN: One of the ones I'm most worried about is obesity; it's increased dramatically from just under 20 percent in 2000 to 26 percent in 2010. When I look at the report card as a whole, there are other indicators that go along with that one that are really concerning to me. So, for example, the proportion of women who have high blood pressure has gone up. What does that make a difference for? Well, if you have women who have increasing rates of diabetes, and they're more obese, they have high blood pressure and they're not eating correctly. If they're not eating enough fruits and vegetables -- down the line, that's likely to mean we're going to see more people who have heart attacks and strokes. It's really quite worrisome.

BETWEEN THE LINES: Why do you think drops in these various health indicators have occurred? Do you think there's any correlation or connection to the severe recession the U.S. is experiencing?

MICHELLE BERLIN: Yes, I really do, particularly for pap screening. It's gone nationally from almost 85 percent to 78 percent. I think there are a number of factors. One of them is, without a doubt, the issues of the recession. Some of the health insurance things -- women who don't have health insurance, or only have catastrophic insurance, or women whose insurers require them to pay a co-pay for preventive services. Women know they need pap smears; that's not the issue. It's not an education issue that way. It's more, I think, access in the insurance issue. And there's something else I think we shouldn't discount. In many families, women access health care for their families, so if there's a choice between their partner or their children accessing health care, or them, they're going to make sure their family members get health care first and they tend to take care of themselves last. And I'm not saying women should be selfish per se, but I think it's a big issue to take into account; you know, if a mom is healthy or a wife is healthy, it's going to help everyone else, too. All of that is coming into play at the same time and it makes for a difficult situation.

BETWEEN THE LINES: President Obama's health reform law has already improved access in some areas of health, specifically to various kinds of screenings without co-pays or deductibles, with more improvements coming down the road. How important is that to improving women's health status?

MICHELLE BERLIN: You know, I think that the health reform act, or the Affordable Care Act, can make a big difference. One of the things that is part of its package is the concept called the medical home, meaning a virtual home, if you will, where everyone gets their care, and their care is coordinated. So for example, I'm a physician and I practice currently. If I'm seeing a patient every fifteen minutes and I want to help them stop smoking, I can start the process, but it's going to work a lot better if I then have someone in my office who can follow up with them, talk with them for quite a bit more time, see how they're doing and help them access services, than if I'm trying to do this by myself. So I think the concept of a medical home can be extraordinarily helpful. And it should help with coordination of many types of services -- nutrition, exercise, a lot of different things. So I think that matters a lot.

BETWEEN THE LINES: What's the next step beyond providing this good data about different aspects of women's health? What do you want to see come out of this survey?

MICHELLE BERLIN: We started this report card project about ten years ago with two ideas in mind. One was to help provide researchers and health planners with good data -- for us to be able to say, "Here is data that we are comfortable you can use to do what you want to do." So that's one piece. The second is for people to talk to their legislators and policy makers and other stakeholders and say, "We're tired and we don't want to take this anymore, and we need your help to figure out how to get things changed, so that certain things can be put into legislation and can be required of health insurers, for example, if that's the way to go." Another one, talking again about smoking, is we know the higher the tax on cigarettes, the less likely young kids are to start smoking. So there's a lot of things that can be done that can help.

The other set of things are aspects of what's called the built environment. So that may mean helping to encourage mass transit. I live in Portland, Ore., and we have a pretty phenomenal public transit system, but part of what people don't talk about is you have to walk to it, and that's a good thing in general. What other things can be done? There are companies that have done things like make sure their parking structure is a little farther away from the building, so you have to walk to get there. So there's a lot of public policy initiatives that can help encourage us to do the right thing and make it easier to do.

For more information on the Women's Health Report Card report, contact the National Women's Law Center at (202) 588-5180 or visit their website at www.nwlc.org.

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