Contemporary Women s Health Issues for Today and the Future

• Author : Cheryl Kolander,Danny Ballard,Cynthia Chandler
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
• Release : 19 February 2013

Contemporary Women’s Health emphasizes health promotion and the impact of multicultural and diversity issues on women’s health. The text is written from a woman-centered perspective and offers thorough discussions on a broad range of female-centric topics including feminism and the women's health movement, global issues in women's health, and health concerns specific to diverse populations. It is appropriate for both nontraditional and traditional students in a variety of course settings including health education, general education, medical education, and

• Author : Cheryl A. Kolander,Danny J. Ballard,Cynthia K. Chandler
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
• Release : 01 March 2001

The text takes a balanced, comprehensive, and unbiased look at many of the health and social issues which impact today's women. The emphasis in Contemporary Women's Health is placed on prevention and becoming a wise health care consumer. This approach is balanced with an examination of relationships and lifestyle issues throughout the lifespan.

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• Publisher : Cram101
• Release : 01 May 2013

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• Publisher : Academic Internet Pub Incorporated
• Release : 01 April 2011

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• Author : Elizabeth Fee,Nancy Krieger
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 25 November 2020

This collection of essays addresses the broadening array of issues on the agenda of the women's health movements of the 1980s and 1990s, just as a previous collection, "Women and Health: The Politics of Sex in Medicine", gathered contributions from the earlier wave of the women's health movement in the 1970s. The papers in both volumes are selected from the "International Journal of Health Services", edited by Vicente Navarro. The essays in this volume were originally published in the 1980s

• Author : Dr Prabha S. Chandra,Dr Helen Herrman,Dr Jane E. Fisher,Dr Marianne Kastrup,Dr Unaiza Niaz,Dr Marta Rondon,Dr Ahmed Okasha
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 24 September 2009

Contemporary Topics in Women’s Mental Health: Global Perspectives in a Changing Society considers both the mental health and psychiatric disorders of women in relation to global social change. The book addresses the current themes in psychiatric disorders among women: reproduction and mental health, service delivery and ethics, impact of violence, disasters and migration, women’s mental health promotion and social policy, and concludes each section with a commentary discussing important themes emerging from each chapter. Psychiatrists, sociologists and students

• Author : Hamilton Cravens
• Publisher : Penn State Press
• Release : 01 November 2010

Americans have benefited from substantial improvements in health since the end of World War II. They live longer and grow taller; they have the safest and cheapest food supply on the planet; they have seen virtually all childhood diseases brought under control. Yet concerns about health remain widespread today. Cancer seems to be everywhere; autoimmune, nervous, and environmental diseases have reached pandemic proportions; medical malpractice suits have proliferated. How can we have received so many benefits while still being as

• Author : United States. Public Health Service. Task Force on Women's Health Issues
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 January 1985

• Author : Pat Armstrong,Ann P. Pederson
• Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
• Release : 26 January 2022

Though we may no longer confine our understanding of women's health to reproduction and maternity care, women's health in Canada continues to be limited by knowledge gaps, political agendas, and fiscal restraints. This second edition of Women's Health provides a comprehensive picture of the state of women's health in Canada, tracing the emergence of the field and outlining some of the current challenges facing its advancement. The contributors--who include academics, health care professionals, and policy-makers--explore women's health in different social

• Author : Olena Hankivsky,Colleen Varcoe,Marina Helen Morrow
• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• Release : 26 January 2022

This volume fills a gap in Canadian healthcare scholarship by providing a resource for teaching and understanding women's health in this country.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
• Release : 09 January 2012

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• Author : Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN,Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release : 16 May 2001

This book demonstrates that nurses have made an important contribution to the advancement and expansion of women's health knowledge. Selecting the health issues of most importance to women, the editors have assembled leading nurse researchers to review, summarize, and critique nursing research within each area. A general overview of the field is also provided. Contributors include Angela McBride, Linda Andrist, Janice Humphreys, and Jacquelyn Campbell. Also contributing are Kathleen MacPherson and Nancy King Reame, nurse members of the original Boston

• Author : Boniface Tatchwenglie Nasah,J. K. G. Mati,Joseph M. Kasonde
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 26 January 1994

• Author : Katalin Fábián
• Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Release : 14 October 2009

As the first and only book in any language on contemporary women’s movements in Hungary, this groundbreaking study focuses on the role of women’s activism in a society where women are not yet adequately represented by established parties and political institutions. Drawing on eyewitness accounts of meetings and protests, as well as first-person interviews with leading female activists, Katalin Fábián examines the interactions between women’s groups in Hungary and studies the unique brand of democracy

• Author : Sheryl Burt Ruzek,Virginia L. Olesen,Adele E. Clarke
• Publisher : Women & Health C&s Perspective
• Release : 26 January 1997

How well do national agendas address all women's health care priorities? What are the implications for social action? Particular attention is paid in this collection of essays to how race, class, gender, and culture shape and in turn are shaped by treatment options and health care for certain subpopulations among Native American, Latina, Asian American, and African American women. Discussions of reproductive health, mental health, violence, and the treatment of stigmatized women raise perplexing issues about choice, chance, and social