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 Kolander,Danny Ballard,Cynthia Chandler
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Release : 18 January 2013

Contemporary WomenËs Health emphasizes health promotion and the impact of multicultural and diversity issues on womenËs 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 : Elaine Weil,Western Schools
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 October 2003

• Author : Kolander/Ballard/Chandler
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 13 June 2021

• Author : Linda Lewis Alexander,Judith H. LaRosa
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Release : 13 June 1994

"This dynamic text comprehensively examines dimensions of Women's health. The 1990s have identified women's health as a critical new frontier in health education. This book takes neither a traditional nor feminist approach to women's health. It is a data driven, contemporary combination of both approaches with an emphasis on informed personal decision making. The book offers a scientific review of women's health issues from epidemiological, historical, legal, social and clinical perspectives. The concept of "Consumerism" is stressed throughout the spectrum

• Author : Cheryl A. Kolander
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill College
• Release : 01 September 1998

• Author : Marian C. Condon
• Publisher : Pearson
• Release : 13 June 2021

Discusses the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of women's health, covering both traditional and alterative remedies and therapies.

• Author : Janet W. Kenney,Janet W. Griffith-Kenney
• Publisher : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Incorporated, Health Sciences Division
• Release : 13 June 1986

• Author : Sheryl Burt Ruzek,Virginia L. Olesen,Adele E. Clarke
• Publisher : Women and Health: Cultural and
• Release : 13 June 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

• Author : Carol S. Weisman
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 24 April 1998

The fact that women experience the health care system differently than men is as issue of increasing importance to health professionals as well as the general public. Yet, while women's health problems have received unprecedented attention in recent years, the unique relationship between women and health care institutions remains little understood. In Women's Health Care: Activist Traditions and InstitutionalChange, Carol Weisman examines the nature of women's health care today and how U.S.women—as both providers and consumers of

• Author : Jon Adams,Amie Steel,Alex Broom,Jane Frawley
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 11 July 2018

Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has become big business internationally, in particular with regards to a range of women’s health issues. With this context in mind, Women's Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine constitutes a valuable and timely resource for those looking to understand, initiate and expand CIM research and evidence-based debate with regards to a wide range of women’s health care issues. The collection brings together leading international CIM researchers from Australia, the USA, the UK, Germany

• 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 : 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 : Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk,Irene M. Bobak
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 13 June 1997

Formerly known as Maternity and Gynecologic care, the title of the 6th edition reflects the changing focus of maternity nursing toward a greater emphasis on women's health care. With a focus on the concepts of caring and critical thinking throughout every chapter, this new edition has been thoroughly revised to address today's ever-changing health care environment. It includes expanded content on health promotion, family, home care, critical care, childbirth education, culture, and health care of women throughout the life span.