| There is an urgent need for education, clinical | | | | York. Its physicians are also full-time faculty |
| care, research as well as advocacy of health care | | | | members at Weill Cornell Medical College. |
| for young girls as well as young women. To meet | | | | The Center is staffed with leading specialists in all |
| these requirements there are many womens | | | | spheres of womens health and they aim to |
| health centers and one such womens health | | | | provide complete primary health care by |
| center is Womens Health Clinic which is located in | | | | integrating quality health care with better research |
| Winnipeg, Canada. | | | | and outstanding education. The range of health |
| The aim of this clinic is to bring together agencies | | | | services available at this womens health center |
| as well as individuals to educate and provide action | | | | include breast cancer, physicians offices for |
| on issues including childbirth, midwifery as well as | | | | gynecology, surgery, mammography, nutritional |
| new reproductive and genetic technologies. Their | | | | counseling as well as a health education resource |
| holistic approach lays great emphasis on | | | | center. |
| preventing, educating and taking action related to | | | | Whichever womens health center one chooses it |
| womens health issues. The aim of this womens | | | | should have the right combination of specialists |
| health center is to encourage other women to | | | | since they would be able to treat women for |
| educate themselves and know about what are | | | | serious breast or gynecological problems. This |
| the reasons behind healthy living and so enable | | | | may involve their having to see numerous |
| them to make informed choices. | | | | doctors that could range from imaging doctors to |
| Providing a Comprehensive Range of Health | | | | surgery to internal medicine. |
| Services to Women | | | | The womens health center should bring the |
| There are a number of services that this | | | | patient and doctor close to each other. The |
| womens health center provides and these include | | | | center should even have an interdisciplinary |
| health and wellness services whose focus is very | | | | approach that would mean that physicians from |
| women centric, and includes advocacy and | | | | different medical specialties, as well as nurses and |
| research concerning womens health, educating the | | | | other related health personnel are able to |
| community as well as professional groups | | | | collaborate to provide improved patient care. |
| regarding health education and also to train and | | | | A center also enable the women to come to the |
| impart experience to volunteers and students. | | | | womens health center and be treated for |
| For those women who live in New York, there is | | | | menstrual, breast as well as hormonal concerns |
| the Iris Cantor Womens health center which | | | | and those other health areas that are specific to |
| provides comprehensive healthcare services that | | | | women. Indeed, women should be able to receive |
| have specifically been designed for women and is | | | | the full complement of health services that could |
| the first of its type and scale in the city of New | | | | also be customized to meet individual needs. |