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Status of Kentucky Women's Health

​​​In ​2024, the Kentucky Commission on Women released a report assessing the status of women and girls throughout the commonwealth. While this publication provided essential data on government representation, business ownership, workfo​rce participation, earnings, and education, the health-related information included was only a small fraction of the data collected. Subsequently, the Commission collaborated with the Division of Women's Health within the Kentucky Department for Public Health to develop this more comprehensive health status report. For demographic context, in 2024, women made up approximately 51% of Kentucky’s total population, with an estimated 2.3 million women out of a total population of 4.6 million poeople living in the state.

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Published March 2026. — The Kentucky Commission ​on Women and Division of Women's Health recognize​ that the data represented in this document is not a comprehensive representation of every woman in Kentucky and that it does not address any disparities that may be identified upon a deeper review.

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​​Downlo​ad​ the Kentucky Women's Health report (PDF).​


ADDITIONAL RESOURCES​ 

Below is a list of state and state-supported resources that can provide support.

​​Cancer Mortality:

Smoking:

Obesity:

Heart Health:

  • Resource: Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program
    Program Areas:
    • Surveillance and epidemiology
    • Environmental approaches
    • Health systems improvements
    • Community-clinical linkages
  • Women's Health Resource Center:
    • Norton Healthcare – Women's Heart Program
    • University of Louisville – Women's Heart Program
    • St. Elizabeth Healthcare – Healing Hearts
    • Baptist Health – Women's Heart Health
    • Kentucky Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program
    • UK Gill Heart and Vascular Institute – Women's Heart Health Program
    • KHDSP Taskforce

Diabetes:

  • Resource: Diabetes Prevention and Control Program
    Provides educational materials concerning these areas:
    • Prediabetes and prevention
    • Diabetes management
    • Vaccines and medications
    • Nutrition
    • Healthy heart

Domestic Violence:

Perinatal Mental Health:

  • Resource: Perinatal and Maternal Mental Health
    Specific state initiative focus areas:
    • Provides specific resources/general information for the following:
      • Anxiety
      • Bipolar
      • Birth trauma
      • Depression
      • OCD
      • Postpartum psychosis
      • PTSD
  • Other helpful resources:
    • Hotlines
    • Section for providers (March of Dimes)

Perinatal and Maternal Data:

  • Resource: Division of Maternal and Child Health
    Specific state initiative focus areas:
    • Birth Surveillance Registry
    • Breastfeeding Promotion
    • Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
    • Child Fatality Review and Injury Prevention
    • Connect the Dots
    • Evidence-based MCH strategies
    • Healthy Schools
    • Maternal Mortality Review
    • Metabolic Foods and Formulas
    • Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
    • Nurturing Parenting
    • Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring
    • School Health Nursing
    • Kentucky Strengthening Families
    • Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Registry

Youth/Adolescent Mental Health:

  • Resource: Children's Mental Health and Recovery Services Branch
    Specific state initiative focus areas:
    • Early Childhood Mental Health
    • High-fidelity Wraparound
    • Peer Support
    • Transition Age Youth
    • Trauma-informed Care
    • School-based Behavioral Health
    • State and Regional Interagency Councils
    • System of Care Expansion and Sustainability
    • Youth and Family Leadership Development
    • Youth Substance Use Prevention and Treatment ​

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