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U.S. States Do Poorly in Women's Health （美国妇女的健康不佳）
Not a single U.S. state meets basic federal goals for women's health, and the nation as a whole fails except in two areas —— mammograms (乳腺X光照片) and dental (牙齿的) check-ups —— researchers said on Thursday.
本周四研究员表示：对于妇女的健康来说，除了在“乳腺X光照片”和“牙科”这两个领域，美国的所有州都没有达到基本的联邦目标。
Millions of women lack health insurance, and states make it difficult to enroll (加入) in Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance plan for the poor, according to the report.
据报告显示，数百万的妇女没有健康保险，国家很难给予她们医疗补助（针对穷人的国家联邦健康保险计划）。
And few states are doing anywhere near enough to help women quit smoking - the leading cause of death in the United States.
只有少数的几个州能提供完善的服务来帮助妇女戒烟（在美国，吸烟是主要的致死原因）。
"The nation as a whole and the individual states fall short of meeting national goals," reads the report, put together by the National Women's Law Center and the Oregon Health & Science University. "These health goals provide a road map for assessing the status of women's health."
国家妇女法律中心和俄勒冈健康与科学大学联合发表的报告指出“整体来说，美国还没有达到目标”。这些健康目标提供了评估妇女健康状况的线路图。
Of 27 measures examined by the group, from screening for diseases to actually treating them, the nation passes on only two, the researchers said. "The nation is so far from the health goals that it receives an overall grade of 'unsatisfactory'," they wrote.
研究者表示：“研究组仔细的进行了27项检查，从疾病检查到进行治疗，这个国家只通过了两项”。他们写道：“这个国家远达不到标准。”
The problem seems to be a lack among states of an overall plan for health in general the NWLC said.
NWLC说到：“这个问题的出现可能是因为缺少一个针对健康的总体规划。”
"State policy makers' piecemeal (一件一件做的) approach to our health care crisis has resulted in a complex and ineffective system that fails to meet the health care needs of women," Judy Waxman, NWLC Vice President for Health, said in a statement.
NWLC的副总裁朱迪·维克斯曼,在一份声明中说到：“国家政策的制定者的渐进方法导致卫生保健的危机，这个危机已经导致了一个复杂和低效的系统，这个系统无法满足妇女的卫生保健需要。”
"Lawmakers need to take a comprehensive, long-term approach to meeting women's health needs and tackle this serious problem that troubles so many families."
国会需要采取一种全面的、长期的办法来满足妇女的健康需求和解决这个困扰许多家庭的严重问题。
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