AHRQ Focus on Research: Health Care for Women
In 1900, the leading causes of death among U.S. women included infectious diseases and complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Today, other health problems and chronic conditions face women. Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States. Approximately 185,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed among U.S. women each year, and nearly 45,000 women die from the disease. Each year, about 600,000 women have a hysterectomy. By age 60, more than one-third of U. S. women have had a hysterectomy. Costs associated with hysterectomy are estimated at $5 billion per year. An estimated 4 million women a year are victims of domestic violence.
Finally, by age 65, half of all women have two or more chronic diseases. These illnesses occur most often in minority and low-income women.
AHRQ Research
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports research on all aspects of women's health care, including......
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