The Report offers health plans and clinicians ideas and strategies for improving services to women. Each chapter addresses specific issues, such as recommended levels of preventive care, and proposes solutions and potential partners that may assist health plans in providing women optimum care. Additional resources are also listed at the end of each chapter.
Women are an important constituency in every plan.
As an association, we try to provide our members with the latest information on best practices in a variety of different areas. The Jacobs Institute has been studying opportunities and challenges to women's health in managed care for more than three years. The suggestions in this Report were gathered from that work and refined by managed care leaders themselves at a summit meeting last year. The Jacobs Institute of Women's Health is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the knowledge, practice, and understanding of women's health. Previous reports by the Jacobs Institute on women's health include a series of eight briefing papers called Insights and various commissioned papers that were published in Women's Health Issues .