Women’s Health

Women make up a critical part of the Veterans we serve, and we are looking for caring women’s health care professionals who understand their specific needs.

Women Veterans’ health care is a top VA priority, ensuring women have access to the resources they need to address their unique health needs.

VA is a trusted source of reproductive health care and works with women Veterans so they can make their own voluntary and informed reproductive health decisions.

VA Women’s Health Reengagement Training educates women Veterans on how to apply for and use VA health care. Here are the five things you need to know about the training.

VA’s largest research program is making discoveries that will improve health for women Veterans.

As we recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month here at VA, we renew our commitment to understanding and supporting women’s health care needs.

As part of its mission to improve the equity for rural Veterans, VA’s Office of Rural Health has developed targeted initiatives to improve the recruitment and retention of rural health care providers and researchers.

“I Care 4 Her” initiative helps educate providers about women Veterans. Comfort level of providers with female patients has increased.

Melissa Tran has changed Veteran perinatal care to be more interdisciplinary and easier to access in one location.

New 34,000-square-foot Fort Smith clinic replaces a 19,000-square-foot location; will serve 10,000 Veterans with a variety of new services.

Women Veterans now have a newly refreshed website for their health care needs. . Each page details health concerns specific to women.

The article discussed the results of an earlier study by Kamdar and colleagues that used photo-elicitation to better understand food insecurity in a group of post 9/11 Veterans with children. The researchers found that food insecurity in Veterans is highly intertwined with physical and mental health, military culture, and lack of basic resources like housing or transportation.