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FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- Navy Medicine wants Sailors, Marines and their families to recognize the importance of women’s health and readiness during women’s health month beginning Oct. 1.
Throughout the month, Navy Medicine will highlight programs and personnel providing top quality care and utilizing innovative approaches to enhance access and convenience for Sailors, Marines and their families.
“Women comprise at least 17 percent of the Navy and Marine Corps,” said Cmdr. Eva Domotorffy, women’s health branch chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) “Women’s health issues are no longer a priority for solely for women; they are everyone’s priority and essential to force readiness.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the leading cause of death for women in the United States is heart disease accounting for 22 percent of deaths in women annually since 2013. Cancer comes in at a close second to heart disease making prevention and early detection vital to keeping women healthy, ready and on the job.
Navy Medicine offers health promotion and disease prevention resources for women of all ages.
“We are developing guidance and tools to enhance shared patient and provider decision making on annual screenings specific to women’s issues, such as mammographies and gynecological screenings,” Domotorffy said. “Our medical centers are piloting programs to enhance access and improve convenience for preventive services like ‘mammograms while you wait’ at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) and ‘operation process improvement for non-delayed contraception (PINC)’ walk-in contraception clinic at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD).”
U.S. Navy Medicine is a global health care network of 63,000 Navy medical personnel around the world who provide high quality health care to more than 1 million eligible beneficiaries. Navy Medicine personnel deploy with Sailors and Marines worldwide, providing critical mission support aboard ship, in the air, under the sea and on the battlefield.
| Date Taken: | 09.30.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 09.30.2016 07:24 |
| Story ID: | 210981 |
| Location: | US |
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