Women's Health Resources & Links
National Center on Physical
Activity and Disability (NCPAD)
http://www.ncpad.org
Site features bulletin boards on a variety of topics, including research issues pertaining
to physical activity and disability and adaptive fitness or recreational equipment, an
NCPAD monthly E-mail list and an American Public Health Association Disability Forum.
Wellness and Aging with Disability
http://www.jik.com/hwawd.html
Includes: active health care consumer strategies; information on specific disabilities,
ethnic and cultural diversity; equity and access; exercise, managed care, women's issues
and more.
Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions
http://www.westernu.edu/cdihp.html
Part of Western University of Health Sciences, this site includes information on
accommodating students with disabilities who are training to be health providers, ADA
compliance, assistive technology, communication access, Web site accessibility, disaster
preparedness for people with disabilities, educating health professionals on disability
issues, history of disability and the health professions, and profiles of people with
disabilities in the health professions.
Aging with Developmental Disabilities: Women's Health
Issues http://www.thearc.org/faqs/whealth.html
Disabled Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Resource
Packet http://www.empowermentzone.com/repropak.txt
Table Manners: A Guide to the Pelvic Examination for Disabled Women and Health Care
Providers, Sex Education for Disabled People, Planned Parenthood Alameda/San Francisco,
815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, 1991
Consent Decree Regarding Health Care Services to People
who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/cthosp.htm
(successful hospital ADA lawsuit).
National Women's Health Information Center
www.4woman.gov
This organization has a section for women with disabilities and a toll-free number:
1.800.994.WOMAN.
National Women's Health
Resource Center
157 Broad Street, Suite 315, Red Bank, NJ 07701
Phone Toll Free: 877-986-9472
www.healthywomen.org
Disability and Health
www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dh
