New Dimensions in Women s Health

• Author : Linda Lewis Alexander,Judith H. LaRosa,Helaine Bader
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Pub
• Release : 12 August 2022

New Dimensions in Women's Health is a comprehensive overview of all major dimensions of women's health across the lifespan, providing various perspectives such as historical, epidemiological, sociocultural, and clinical issues for each topic. Data-driven chapters, with an emphasis on prevention and informed decision making, offer students broader sections of psychological dimensions, lifestyle and social dimensions, personal and sexual dimensions, and healthy dimensions for older women in order to create an effective style and structure for understanding the components of women's

• Author : Linda Alexander,Judith LaRosa,Helaine Bader,Susan Garfield
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Release : 09 October 2009

New Dimensions in Women's Health, Fifth Edition, offers a practical approach to understanding the health of women-all races, ethnicities, socioeconomic status, cultures, and orientations. Objective and data-driven, the Fifth Edition provides solid guidance for women to optimize their well-being and prevent illness and impairment. Each chapter of this book comprehensively reviews an important dimension of a woman’s general health and examines the contributing epidemiological, historical, psychosocial, cultural/ethical, legal, political, and economic influences.

• Author : Kuruvilla, Moly,George, Irene
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release : 12 June 2020

Globally, women are facing social, economic, and cultural barriers impeding their autonomy and agency. Accelerated women empowerment programs often fail to attain their targets as envisaged by the policymakers due to a variety of reasons, with the most prominent being the deep-rooted cultural norms ingrained within society. In the era of globalization, empowerment of women demands new approaches and strategies that encourage the mainstreaming of gender equality as a societal norm. The Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender

• Author : Linda Lewis Alexander
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Release : 12 August 2022

Covering all aspects of women's health including historical, epidemiological, economical, clinical, legal, ethical, special population, cultural and psychosocial issues.

• Author : Linda Lewis Alexander,William Alexander,Judith H. LaRosa,Helaine Bader
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• Release : 03 August 2016

Appropriate for undergraduate students studying health education, nursing and women's studies, New Dimensions in Women's Health, Seventh Edition is a comprehensive, modern text that offers students the tools to understand the health of women of all cultures, races, ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and sexual orientations.

• Author : Linda Lewis Alexander,Judith H. LaRosa,Helaine Bader,Susan Garfield
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Release : 10 February 2020

Revised and update to keep pace with changes in the field, the best-selling New Dimensions in Women's Health, Eighth Edition provides a modern look at the health of women of all cultures, races, ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and sexual orientations. Written for undergraduate students within health education, nursing, and women's studies programs, the text provides readers with the critical information needed optimize their well-being, avoid illness and injury, and support their overall health. The authors took great care to provide in-depth

• Author : Marina Morrow,Olena Hankivsky,Colleen Varcoe
• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• Release : 03 May 2008

In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women's health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little available in the way of a general text on women's health. This volume works toward filling that gap by providing a resource for teaching and understanding women's health in this country. To lay out the methodological and theoretical foundations for their

• Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release : 27 April 2017

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 12 August 1997

• Author : Pat Armstrong,Jennifer Deadman
• Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
• Release : 12 August 2022

While women comprise the largest segement of health workers, health consumers, and health decision-makers for their families and communities, it has often been difficult for women to make themselves heard. Women's Health focuses on women's health issues from multiple perspectives and draws upon research and practice that include both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in data collection and knowledge formation. Women's Health incorporates work that has been produced from grassroots investigations of women's health issues and addresses specific health issues, diversity

• Author : Alexander, David,Linda Alexander
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
• Release : 01 March 1994

• Author : Miriam Jacobs
• Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
• Release : 28 May 2014

Using the Tarot, fused with the Chakra system, facilitate healing and promote change in your life. Discover how to use the Tarot and the Chakras to support holistic views and to alter energy systems, thereby affecting patterns presented to you in the cards. This comprehensive guide takes the Whole into account by including meditations, exercises, bodywork techniques, home remedies, dietary recommendations, and the use of crystals. All of these help balance energy and facilitate change of the physical, mental, and

• Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release : 12 April 2013

The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse

• Author : Linda Bacon
• Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
• Release : 02 February 2010

Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with "healthy" is the problem. The solution? Health at Every Size. Tune in to your body's expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that help you to feel good. You too can feel great in your body right

• Author : Caroline Criado Perez
• Publisher : Abrams
• Release : 12 March 2019

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez