Women and health /

Women and health /

Women and Health is a comprehensive reference that addresses health issues affecting women of all ages - from adolescence through maturity. It goes far beyond other books on this topic, that concentrate only on reproductive health, and has a truly international perspective. It covers key issues rang...

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Other Authors: Goldman, Marlene B. (Editor), Troisi, Rebecca (Editor), Rexrode, Kathryn M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, 2013.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Women > Health and hygiene.
Women > Diseases.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • I. WOMEN, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE
  • Section 1 Introduction to Women's Health
  • 1. Women's Health in the 21st Century / Marlene B. Goldman, Rebecca Troisi and Kathryn M. Rexrode
  • 2. Mutability of Women's Health with Age: The Sometimes Rapid, and Often Enduring, Health Consequences of Injustice / Arline T. Geronimus and Rachel C. Snow
  • 3. Current Approaches to Women's Health Care / Beth A Collins Sharp and Carolyn M. Clancy
  • 4. Impact of Health Coverage on Women's Access to Care in the US / Alina Salganicoff and Usha Ranji
  • 5. Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine and Women's Health / Emmeline Edwards, D. Lee Alekel and Barbara Stussman
  • 6. Research on the Health of Sexual Minority Women / Judith Bradford and Aimee Van Wagenen
  • Section 2 Research Methods in Women's Health
  • 7. Understanding Research Designs / Vera Ehrenstein and Timothy L. Lash
  • 8. Progress in Women's Health Research / Julie R. Palmer and Samantha Sass
  • 9. Life Course Approach to Research in Women's Health / Rebecca Hardy, Nancy Potischman and Diana Kuh
  • 10. Principles of Genetics and Genomics / Sharon A. Savage
  • II. SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
  • Section 3 Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Introduction / Marlene B. Goldman and Lisa Chasan-Taber
  • 11. Puberty and Adolescent Pregnancy / Theresa O. Scholl and Xinhua Chen
  • 12. Menstruation and Menstrual Disorders / Siobhán D. Harlow, Gayle C. Windham and Pangaja Paramsothy
  • 13. Premenstrual Syndrome / Patricia O. Chocano-Bedoya and Elizabeth R. Bertone-Johnson
  • 14. Women's Fecundability and Factors Affecting It / Donna Day Baird
  • 15. Contraception / Donna Shoupe and Daniel R. Mishell, Jr.
  • 16. Induced Abortion / Ellen S. Rigterink, Audrey F. Saftlas and Hani K. Atrash
  • 17. Infertility / Stacey A. Missmer, Mary E. Abusief, Robert L. Barbieri and Marlene B. Goldman
  • 18. Endometriosis / Victoria L. Holt, Britton Trabert and Kristen Upson
  • 19. Uterine Leiomyomata / Lauren A. Wise and Shannon K. Laughlin-Tommaso
  • 20. Assisted Reproductive Technologies / David A. Grainger, Bruce L. Tjaden and Laura L. Tatpati
  • 21. Pregnancy Complications and Future Maternal Health / Chloe A Zera and Thomas F. Mcelrath
  • 22. Labor and Delivery / Romy-Leigh McMaster, Shu-Qin Wei and William D. Fraser
  • 23. Female Sexuality and Sexual Function / Shari Goldfarb, Shirley R. Baron and Stacy Tessler Lindau
  • 24. Vulvodynia / Bernard L. Harlow, Maheruh Khandker, Elizabeth G. Stewart and Lynette J. Margesson
  • 25. Menopause: Its Epidemiology / Maryfran R. Sowers, Siobhán D. Harlow, Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez, Joyce Bromberger, Jane Cauley, Ellen Gold and Karen Matthews
  • 26. Overview of Pelvic Floor Disorders: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment / James L. Whiteside and Tyler Muffly
  • 27. Hysterectomy / James K.C. Wang, Cara A. Robinson and Ronald T. Burkman
  • Section 4 Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • 28. Gonococcal Infection in Women / Noreen A. Hynes and Anne M. Rompalo
  • 29. Chlamydia trachomatis / Charlotte A. Gaydos
  • 30. Syphilis in Women / Jeanne M. Marrazzo and Connie L. Celum
  • 31. Vaginal Infections / Christina A. Muzny and Jane R. Schwebke
  • 32. Genital Herpes / Tara Perti, Joellle M. Brown and Anna Wald
  • 33. HIV and AIDS in Women / Janet Blair, Lynn Paxton and Mary L. Kamb
  • 34. Human Papilloma Virus Infection in Women / Loris Y. Hwang and Anna-Barbara Moscicki
  • 35. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and Chronic Pelvic Pain / Catherine L. Haggerty and Ann E. Wiringa
  • 36. Urinary Tract Infection / Betsy Foxman
  • III. Occupational, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
  • Section 5 Occupational and Environmental Determinants of Health
  • Introduction / Jeanne M. Stellman
  • 37. Working Women in the United States: A Statistical Profile / Lauren M. Anderson and Jeanne Mager Stellman
  • 38. International Perspectives: Women's Occupational Health / Jeanne Mager Stellman, Andrea Lucas and Lauren M. Anderson
  • 39. Multiple Roles and Complex Exposures / Karen Messing
  • 40. Reproductive Hazards of Occupational and Environmental Exposures / Marja-Liisa Lindbohm, Markku Sallmén and Helena Taskinen
  • 41. Work-Related Musculo-Skeletal Disorders / Robin Mary Gillespie, Robin Herbert and Laura Punnett
  • 42. Occupational Cancer / Melissa C. Friesen, Shelia Hoar Zahm, Mary H. Ward and Debra T. Silverman
  • 43. Environmental Exposures and Cancer / Jessica K. Paulus and David C. Christiani
  • Section 6 Introduction to the Social Determinants of Women's Health
  • Introduction / Michael M. Oakes
  • 44. Socioeconomic Determinants of Women's Health: The Changing Landscape of Education, Work, and Marriage / Lisa M. Bates, Lisa F. Berkman and M. Maria Glymour
  • 45. Women, Stress and Health / Mieke Beth Thomeer, Debra Umberson and Kristi Williams
  • 46. Cigarette Smoking: Trends, Determinants, and Health Effects / Corinne G. Husten, Benjamin J. Apelberg and Ann Marie Malarcher
  • 47. Alcohol is a Women's Health Issue / Toben F. Nelson and Mandy Stahre
  • 48. Intimate Partner Violence / Cari Jo Clark
  • 49. Do Social Policies Influence the Health of Women and their Children? / Theresa L. Osypuk, Pamela Joshi, Kimberly Geronimo and Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
  • 50. Impact of the Built Environment on Health / Peter James, Philip J. Troped and Francine Laden
  • IV. CHRONIC DISEASE
  • Section 7 Autoimmune Diseases
  • Introduction / Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman
  • 51. Rheumatoid Arthritis / Agustín Escalante
  • 52. Multiple Sclerosis / Maria K. Houtchens and Samia J. Khoury
  • 53. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus / A. Devlin, R. Ramsey-Goldman and K.H. Costenbader
  • 54. Sjögren's Syndrome / William Traverse, Harjinder Chowdhary and Ann L. Parke
  • 55. Asthma / Neil Pearce and Jeroen Douwes
  • Section 8 Endocrinology and Women's Health
  • Introduction / Joann E. Manson and Shari S. Bassuk
  • 56. Obesity Epidemic and Women's Health / Rachel H. Mackey and Kathleen M. McTigue
  • 57. Diabetes in Women / Cathy C. Lee and Simin Liu
  • 58. Thyroid Disease and Women / Ji Youn Lee and Stephanie L. Lee
  • 59. Management of Menopausal Symptoms in the Post-Women's Health Initiative Era / Cynthia A. Stuenkel
  • 60. Vitamin D and Disease Prevention in Women / Shari S. Bassuk and Joann E. Manson
  • 61. Osteoporosis / Jane A. Cauley
  • Section 9 Cardiovascular Disease in Women
  • Introduction / Kathryn M. Rexrode
  • 62. Overview of Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease / Eileen Rillamas-Sun, Jeannette M. Beasley and Andrea Z. Lacroix
  • 63. Lipids in Women / Jennifer G. Robinson
  • 64. Diagnosis and Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease in Women / Jannet F. Lewis and C. Noel Bairey Merz
  • 65. Emotions and Cardiovascular Disease / Gerdi Weidner and Heike Spaderna
  • 66. Cerebrovascular Disease in Women / Cheryl Bushnell and Kathryn M. Rexrode
  • 67. Venous Thromboembolism / Kathryn C. Fitzgerald and Robert J. Glynn
  • 68. Arrhythmias in Women: Atrial Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Death / Stephanie Chiuve, Christine Albert and David Conen
  • 69. Heart Failure in Women: Epidemiology, Prognosis, and Management / Donald M. Lloyd-Jones
  • 70. Hypertension in Women / Jane E. Becklehoff and Marion Wofford
  • Section 10 Cancer
  • Introduction / Patricia Hartge and Rebecca Troisi
  • 71. Cancer in Women: Global Burden and Insights from Gender Comparisons / Valerie McCormack, Joannie Lortet-Tieulent, Hai-Rim Shin and Freddie Bray
  • 72. Breast Cancer Epidemiology / James V. Lacey Jr., Nadia T. Chung, and Leslie Bernstein
  • 73. Genetic Epidemiology of Breast Cancer / Mia M. Gaudet, Jennifer D. Brooks, Mark E. Robson and Jonine L. Bernstein
  • 74. Breast Cancer Screening / Anthony B. Miller
  • 75. Ovarian Cancer / Nicolas Wentzensen, Britton Trabert and Joellen Schildkraut
  • 76. Endometrial Cancer / Sara H. Olson, Elizabeth Jewell and Radhai M. Rastogi
  • 77. Cervical Cancer: Burden of Disease and Risk Factors / Laia Bruni, Laia Alemany, Mirela Diaz, F. Xavier Bosch and Silvia De Sanjosé
  • 78. Vaccination and Screening in Cervical Cancer Control and Prevention / Myriam Chevarie-Davis and Eduardo Franco
  • 79. Epidemiology of Lung Cancer in Women / Adeline Seow
  • 80. Colorectal Cancer in Women / Corrine E. Joshu, Edward Giovannucci and Elizabeth A. Platz
  • 81. Epidemiology of Melanoma of the Skin / Adelé C. Green, Catherine M. Olsen and Linda Titus
  • 82. Cancer Prevention for Women / Heather Patrick and Karen Glanz
  • Section 11 Mental Disorders
  • Introduction
  • Introduction / Mary V. Seeman
  • 83. Gender and Mood Disorders / Ronald C. Kessler and Anne M. Gadermann
  • 84. Anxiety Disorders in Women / Kathleen Ries Merikangas, Marcy Burstein and Anja Schmitz
  • 85. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder / Soraya Seedat and Sharain Suliman
  • 86. Psychosis in Women: Gender Differences in Presentation, Onset, Course and Outcome of Schizophrenia / Jayashri Kulkarni and Emmy Gavrilidis
  • 87. Eating Disorders / Cynthia M. Bulik, Sara E. Trace and Suzanne E. Mazzeo
  • 88. Addictive Disorders / Eglacy C. Sophia and Monica L. Zilberman
  • Section 12 Poorly Understood Conditions
  • Introduction / Susan K Johnson and Karen Schmaling
  • 89. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Susan K. Johnson
  • 90. Fibromyalgia: A Central Sensitivity Syndrome / Muhammad B. Yunus
  • 91. Epidemiology of Headache in Women: Emphasis on Migraine / Autumn M. Klein
  • 92. Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Natasha A. Koloski and Nicholas J. Talley
  • 93. Temporomandibular Disorders / Linda Teresche and Mark Drangsholt
  • 94. Multiple Chemical Sensitivity / Iris R. Bell and Carol M. Baldwin
  • V. GERIATRIC HEALTH
  • Section 13 Aging
  • Introduction / Suzanne G. Leveille
  • 95. Morbidity, Disability, and Mortality / Frances M. Yang and Suzanne G. Leveille
  • 96. Osteoarthritis and Other Musculo-Skeletal Diseases / Kelli Allen and Amanda E. Nelson
  • 97. Urinary and Fecal Incontinence in Older Women / Katharine K. O'Dell and Catherine E. Dubeau
  • 98. Hearing Loss and Aging / Frank R. Lin
  • 99. Visual Impairment / Ellen E. Freeman and Emily W. Gower
  • 100. Impact of Women's Oral Health on Systemic Health / Christine Haskin and Connie Mobley
  • 101. Cognitive Functioning in Aging Women / Ira Driscoll, Mark A. Espeland and Kristine Yaffe
  • 102. Role of Social Support in the Health and Well-Being of Older Adult Widows / Toni L. Bisconti, C.S. Bergeman, Stacey B. Scott and Lindsay Pitzer
  • 103. Long-Term Care: The Global Impact on Women / Karen I. Fredericksen-Goldsen and Robin P. Bonifas
  • 104. Caring for Women at the End of Life / Mary K. Buss and Ellen P. Mccarthy
  • 105. Successful Aging in Women / Barbara Resnick
  • Epilogue and future directions / Robert N. Hoover.

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