The Office on Women's Health (OWH) was established in 1991 within the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Its vision is to ensure that all women and girls are healthier and have a better sense of well-being.

Womens health and wellness promotion encompasses all aspects

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of health including mental, physical, social, intellectual, spiritual, and emotional well-being, throughout the life course.

OWHs mission is to provide leadership that promotes health equity for women and girls through sex/gender-specific approaches.

Staff in OWH achieve the offices mission and vision through the development of innovative programs, by educating health professionals, and by motivating behavior change in consumers through the dissemination of health information.

OWH guides programmatic and policy activity within the Department to advance the work needed to eliminate violence against women (VAW) and girls in our country and the world through the HHS Steering Committee on Violence Against Women.

The primary goal of OWH as it relates to violence is to ensure that the long-term health impact of violence against women garners national recognition and is addressed as a major public health issue.

To that end, the OWH has established public/private partnerships that address the health impact of violence against women.

Violence against women is also known as gender-based violence and the two terms may be use interchangeably for this announcement.