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Report shows most states are falling behind when it comes to women's health.

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The United States as a whole and a majority of the 50 states simply do not make the grade when it comes to improving women's health, according to an analysis by the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and the Oregon Health & Science University.

Making the Grade on Women's Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card is the fourth in a series of triennial reports to grade and rank each state in the country based on 27 health status benchmarks developed largely using goals set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Healthy People 2010 initiative. The report gives the nation an overall grade of "unsatisfactory" for meeting only three of the 27 benchmarks--the percent of women 40 and over who receive regular mammograms, the percent of women who annually see a dentist, and the percent of women 50 and over who receive screenings for colorectal cancer.

"We evaluate the country and the individual states on two core items--the health status of women and the state health policies that could be enacted to improve...

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