Women's Health

Representative Projects

Evaluate the Advancing System Improvements to Support Targets for Healthy People 2010 Program. The Advancing System Improvements to Support Targets for Healthy People 2010 (ASIST2010) program, funded through the Office on Women’s Health (OWH), is a unique program in at least two respects: it places emphasis on sex- and gender-based care, and is designed to improve health outcomes within the selected Healthy People 2010 focus area(s)—cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, access to quality health services, educational and community-based programs, nutrition and overweight, and physical activity and fitness.  More

National Children's Study (NCS). The National Children’s Study will examine the effects of the environment, as broadly defined to include factors such as air, water, diet, sound, family dynamics, community and cultural influences, and genetics on the growth, development, and health of children across the United States, following them from before birth until age 21 years. More

Headlines

News Slate: "Todd Akin's 'Rape' Fiasco," featuring GSS data More
Posted: 8.21.2012 4:58PM
News CNN: Women's rights and conservatism, with data and findings from the GSS More
Posted: 5.21.2012 4:23PM
News Chronicle of Higher Education: "Here's More Bad News About Death" featuring research from NORC's Leonid Gavrilov More
Posted: 2.10.2012 4:55PM
News The New York Times: Single life versus married life, with research and findings from the General Social Survey More
Posted: 2.6.2012 4:05PM
News Yahoo! News: Valentine's Day: or, how I learned to be a more attentive husband with help from the GSS and NLSY More
Posted: 2.3.2012 3:45PM