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Table of Contents
(click links to download PDF documents or PowerPoint files)

1. An Introduction to Women's Health and Health Reform
a. A History of Health Care Reform and the Women's Health Movement PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
b. What's At Stake for Women powerpoint icon and link (link to PowerPoint)
c. Women's Health and Health Reform Overview powerpoint icon and link (link to PowerPoint)

2. A Women's Vision for Health Care Reform
a. RWV Women's Vision for Quality, Affordable, Health Care for All PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
b. National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health - Statement on Health Care for All PDF icon and link (link to PDF)

3. Engaging Grassroots Women
a. Conducting a Small Group Discussion in Your Community PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
b. RWV Listens to Women - What We Learned PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
c. How to Raise Women's Voices in Your Community - Action Strategies! PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
d. Sample Event PDF icon and link (link to PDF)

4. Community Organizing Toolkit - Strategies and Tactics to Make Change PDF icon and link (link to PDF)

5. Sample State Health Reform Efforts
a. Massachusetts
i. Forging Consensus: The Path to Health Reform in Massachusetts PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
ii. Women and Health Care Reform in Massachusetts: Policy Brief PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
iii. Community Catalyst: MA Health Reform 18 Months Later PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
b. New Mexico
i. Health Care For All New Mexico: Principles PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
ii. Health Action New Mexico: Legislative Trends PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
iii. Voices of the Health Care Crisis from Rural New Mexico PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
c. New York
i. Health Care For All New York: Fact Sheet on Women's Health PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
ii. Community Service Society: Women's Concerns in NY's Health Reform Conversation PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
iii. Choices in Childbirth: New York City Hospitals Cesarean Section Rates 2000-2005 PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
d. California
i. Women's Working Group of CA - Health Care Reform Principles PDF icon and link (link to PDF)

6. Resources - Look here for glossaries and fact sheets about health care reform and women's issues!
a. The Commonwealth Fund: Health Policy Reform - Beyond the 2008 Elections PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
b. The Kaiser Family Foundation: Women's Health Policy Facts PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
c. Health Care Reform: Voices of Faith in Election 2008 PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
d. Families USA: 2008 Glossary of Health Care Terms PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
e. Pursuing A New Vision for Health Care: A Human Rights Assessment of the
Presidential Candidates' Proposals PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
f. National Women's Law Center: Women and Health Coverage: The Affordability Gap PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
g. NHeLP: Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in
Women's Health Care PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
h. NHeLP: Over the Counter or Out of Reach? A Report on Evolving State Medicaid Policies for Covering Emergency Contraception PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
i. NHeLP: State Medicaid Coverage of Emergency Contraception
as an Over-the-Counter Drug PDF icon and link (link to PDF)
j. Community Catalyst: Approaches and Strategies for Achieving
Universal Health Care powerpoint icon and link (link to PowerPoint)
k. Community Catalyst: Guide to Protecting Consumers Under an Individual Mandate PDF icon and link (link to PDF)

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