Publications and Reports
The following materials are publications and reports created by the Office of Women's Health.
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Sourcebook Volume 5: Women Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration
Sourcebook Volume 5 provides a view of how the population of women Veterans using VHA evolved across an 11-year period coinciding with rapid VHA women's health care delivery system advances and points to priorities for consideration in the context of anticipated further expansion of the number of women Veterans using VHA. (2024)
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Study of Barriers for Women Veterans to VA Health Care
VA conducted an independent study of the barriers to health care for women Veterans in response to Public Law 116-315, Sec. 5402 – Study of Barriers for Women Veterans to Receipt of Health Care from Department of Veterans Affairs. This 2024 study allows VA to better understand the barriers women Veterans face in accessing VA care, the comprehensiveness of care, and progress made in reducing barriers to VA health care. The last study of these topics was conducted in 2014. The data collected allows VA to plan and provide better health care for women Veterans. The Study of Barriers for Women Veterans to VA Health Care will further our understanding of health care for women Veterans and enable VA staff to improve how we deliver care to, communicate with, and provide resources to women Veterans. (2024) (2024)
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State of Reproductive Health Report: Volume 2
This second report of the State of Reproductive Health (Volume II) is an important next step in continuing to understand key aspects of reproductive and sexual health through Veterans Health Administration (VHA) health care services. This report is based on program evaluation analyses conducted by the Office of Women's Health (OWH) and the Women's Health Evaluation Initiative. The report will summarize the reproductive and sexual health needs of women/gender diverse Veterans and describe how these needs have changed over time, including variation by age, race/ethnicity, and rurality; summarize the change in availability and organization of reproductive and sexual health care services in VHA over time; and provide information on special topics related to the reproductive and sexual health of Veterans receiving care through VHA. (2023)
Download Volume 2 (1.4MB)To request appendices, please email: VHA10WWomensHealthAction@va.gov
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Sourcebook Volume 4: Women Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration
Like Sourcebook Volumes 1, 2, and 3, the Sourcebook Volume 4 describes sociodemographic characteristics, health care utilization patterns, and medical conditions of women Veteran patients in VHA. However, Sourcebook Volume 4 includes more recent data and, for the first time, portrays longitudinal trends across a 16-year time horizon, focusing on cohorts of women Veterans using VHA at four Fiscal Year (FY) timepoints: FY00, FY05, FY10, and FY15. Sourcebook Volume 4 also provides information about cross-facility variability in the number of women Veteran patients over time. It examines women Veterans overall and by age group and compares women to men. Sourcebook Volume 4 thus provides a view of how the population of women Veterans using VHA has been evolving across a 16-year period coinciding with rapid VHA women's health care delivery system advances, and points to directions for readying the system for future expansion of the number of women Veterans using VHA. (2018)
To request this Sourcebook, please email: VHA10WWomensHealthAction@va.gov
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State of Cardiovascular Health Vol. 2
This second volume of the State of Cardiovascular Health in Women Veterans gives a more complete picture of the prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease risk factors, conditions, and procedures in women Veterans using VHA. (2017)
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The Barriers to Care study was created in response to Public Law 111-163, Sec. 201, Women Veterans Health Care Matters. This study helps VA better understand what barriers women Veterans face accessing VA health care, and allows VA to plan and provide better health care for women Veterans. The data collected is also critical in supporting reports to Congress about the status of women Veterans health care. (2015)
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Sourcebook Volume 3: Women Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration
This report's primary purpose is to present data to inform policy and program planning as VHA implements and evaluates new ways of providing care to women Veterans. Sourcebook Volume 3—like Volumes 1 and 2—describes sociodemographic characteristics and health care utilization patterns of women Veteran patients in VHA, updated Fiscal Year 2012 data, as well as new data on costs of care and the medical condition profile of women Veterans in VHA. (2014)
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State of Cardiovascular Health Vol. 1
This report is the first in a planned series of reports, this first volume of the State of Cardiovascular Health in Women Veterans evaluates cardiovascular disease risk factors, conditions, and procedures occurring in VHA outpatient care in women and men Veterans in 2010. (2014)
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State of Reproductive Health 2014
This first report of the State of Reproductive Health in Women Veterans provides an overview of the RH diagnoses of women Veterans utilizing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care services, VA delivery of RH care, and a vision for RH in VA. (2014)
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Gender Differences in Performance Measures: VHA 2008-2011
This report shows that between 2008 and 2011, VA improved gender disparities in almost all measures and exceeded both private and public sector care on most measures. (2012)
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Sourcebook Volume 2: Women Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration
This report presents data that will inform policy and planning as VA looks at new ways of providing care to women Veterans. (2012)
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Sourcebook Volume 1: Women Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration
The first in a series, this report describes women Veterans receiving VHA care in Fiscal Year 2009 overall and within key subgroups (by age and by service-connected disability status). Future volumes will focus on race and ethnicity, diagnoses, and the use of fee basis care. (2010)
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