Women's health encompasses many physical, mental and emotional aspects. Often our bodies, minds and emotions are linked when dealing with our health issues.
Below are some links both on and off campus to help you meet your needs.
LBT women can find additional links specific to their community on our safe campus website.
- General Health
- Tufts Health Service
- Tufts Counseling and Wellness Center
- Other Health Links
- 4Women: The national women's health information center
- Health Touch: A comprehensive guide to many health issues
- Our Bodies Ourselves: A companion site to the popular book which discusses many women's health and sexual health issues
- Eating Issues
- Eating Issues Help at Tufts: Info on Tufts services as well as excellent links to websites. Tufts also has a nutritionist on staff
- Mirror Mirror: A site for information and recovery
- Something Fishy: Comprehensive site for education, signs/symptoms/recovery
- Massachusetts eating disorders Referral/information
- Nutrition
- Tufts School of Nutrition Guide to links
- American Dietetic Association
- Mental Health
- Counseling & Mental Health Service: They can also refer you to an outside agency if you want to be seen off campus
- American Psychological Association
- Mental Health Net
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Addiction Issues and Self-Injury
- Counselors at the Tufts Counseling Center are also equipped and trained to deal with issues of self injury and addiction.
- Alcohol and Drug Education program at Tufts
- Cool Nurse: basic information about self injury/cutting and recovery
- Women's Addiction Foundation: information on women and addictions of various kinds
- Ob/Gyn/Sexual Health
- First obgyn exam/Sexual health at Tufts
- Contraception Online: Info on what your first pelvic exam may entail and other related information
- OBGYN Online: Comprehensive site on all things ob/gyn
- Birth Control/Contraception
- Sexual Health at Tufts Health Service: Birth control and emergency contraception at Tufts, links to contraception online
- Massachusetts EC Network: All about emergency contraception or EC aka "the morning after pill."
- Planned Parenthood Massachusetts: Comprehensive site on sexual/reproductive health
- Family Doctor: Site helping you to see and choose a method right for you
- Managing Contraception: Site helping you to choose a method
- STD/HIV AIDS Information
- STD/HIV information at Tufts Health Service
- American Social Health Association: Site devoted to education around sexually transmitted diseases
- I Wanna Know: User friendly std guide/treatment options
- Amfar: Page devoted to basic hiv/aids info