Women and Health

Women and Health, 3rd Edition, addresses health issues affecting women of all ages from adolescence through maturity. Extending far beyond other books on women's health, which tend to focus on reproductive health alone, this book covers key issues ranging from osteoporosis to breast cancer, domestic violence, sexually transmitted diseases, occupational hazards, eating disorders, heart disease and other chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and societal and behavioral influences on health.In this third edition of Women and Health, the chapters incorporate issues that affect women across the life course with a special emphasis on the health of mid-life and older women. Changes in the field of women's health since the first and second editions, for example, in genetics and the impact of sex and gender on health, are represented with the latest scientific findings and controversies.This book provides a comprehensive compendium of the epidemiology of health conditions affecting women internationally and over the life course for the lay reader, clinician, and health research scientist.
- Provides a common language for epidemiologists, public health practitioners, and women's health specialists to discuss the behavioral, cultural, and biological determinants of women's health - Focuses on how gender affects the risk, prevalence, presentation, and treatment of disease - Frames the importance of considering the entire life cycle of women-from reproduction through aging-within research designs and treatment plans

Part I: Women, health, and medicineSection 1: Introduction to women's health1. Women's health in the third decade of the 21st century2. The journey to the 21st century3. Current approaches to women's health care4. The impact of health coverage on women's access to care in the United States5. Complementary and integrative medicine and women's health6. Racial and/or ethnic disparities in women's health7. Weathering: the mutability of women's health with age and the consequences of injustice8. Sexual minority women's health9. Research regarding the health of transgender and nonbinary populations10. Women's health across the life course in low and middle income countries: an urgent and unfinished agenda11. Migrant and refugee health: the influence of context and assets on women's health across the lifecourseSection 2: Research methods in women's health12. Understanding research designs13. The evolving focus of women's health research14. Life course approach to research in women's health15. Principles of genetics and genomics16. Omic technologies and Precision Women's HealthSection 3: Introduction to the social (and structural) determinants of women's health17. Women, stress, and health18. Intimate partner violence19. Social policy choices, women, and health20. The impact of the built environment on health21. Women's health and the carceral statePart II: Sexual and reproductive healthSection 4: Sexual and reproductive health, third edition, Women and Health22. Puberty development: determinants and health impacts23. Menstruation and menstrual disorders24. Premenstrual disorders25. Contraception26. Induced abortion27. Infertility28. Medically assisted reproduction29. Labor and childbirth30. Pregnancy complications and future maternal health31. Epidemiology of endometriosis and adenomyosis32. Uterine leiomyomata33. Female sexuality and sexual function34. Vulvodynia35. The epidemiology of menopause36. Overview of pelvic floor disorders: epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment37. Hysterectomy: global patterns and public health priorities38. Female genital cuttingSection 5: Infections39. Gonococcal infection in women40. Chlamydia trachomatis41. Syphilis in women42. Vaginal infections43. Urinary tract infection44. Genital herpes45. Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in women46. Human papilloma virus infection in women47. Pelvic inflammatory disease and chronic pelvic pain48. Hepatitis C infection in women49. MalariaPart III: Occupation and environmental healthSection 6: Occupational and environmental determinants of health50. Working women in the United States: a statistical profile51. International perspectives: women's occupational health52. Multiple roles and complex exposures53. Reproductive hazards of environmental and occupational exposures54. Work related musculoskeletal disorders55. Occupational cancer56. Environmental exposures and cancerPart IV: Chronic diseaseSection 7: Cardiovascular disease in women57. Overview of risk factors for cardiovascular disease58. Lipids in women: lifelong risk assessment59. Hypertension in women60. Emotions and cardiovascular disease in women61. Diagnosis and treatment of ischemic heart disease in women62. Cerebrovascular disease in women63. Heart failure in women: epidemiology, prognosis, and management64. Atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death in women65. Venous thromboembolism in women: insights into epidemiology, risk factors, and clinical managementSection 8: Cancer66. The impact of sex and gender on nonreproductive cancers67. Cancer in women: global burden and insights from gender comparisons68. Epidemiology of breast cancer69. Current issues in breast cancer screening70. Ovarian cancer71. Endometrial cancer72. Cervical cancer: burden of disease and risk factors73. Screening and vaccination in cervical cancer control and prevention74. Lung cancer in women-epidemiology and risk factors75. Colorectal cancer in women76.