Womens Health Advocacy

Author : Jamie White-Farnham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429574967
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Health Advocacy written by Jamie White-Farnham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s Health Advocacy brings together academic studies and personal narratives to demonstrate how women use a variety of arguments, forms of writing, and communication strategies to effect change in a health system that is not only often difficult to participate in, but which can be actively harmful. It explicates the concept of rhetorical ingenuity—the creation of rhetorical means for specific and technical, yet extremely personal, situations. At a time when women’s health concerns are at the center of national debate, this rhetorical ingenuity provides means for women to uncover latent sources of oppression in women’s health and medicine and to influence matters of research, funding, policy, and everyday access to healthcare in the face of exclusion and disenfranchisement. This accessible collection will be inspiring reading for academics and students in health communication, medical humanities, and women’s studies, as well as for activists, patients, and professionals.

Author : Sandra Morgen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813530710
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into Our Own Hands written by Sandra Morgen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent history has witnessed a revolution in womens health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over womens health. Few people today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted power and responsibility from the medical establishment into womens hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces the womens health care movement in the United States. Richly documented, this study is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with leading activists; documentary material from feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of womens health movement organizations in the early 1990s; and ethnographic fieldwork. Sandra Morgen focuses on the clinics born from this movement, as well as how the movements encounters with organized medicine, the state, and ascendant neoconservative and neoliberal political forces of the 1970s to the1980s shaped the confrontations and accomplishments in womens health care. The book also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class within the movement organizations.

Author : Nancy Worcester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Health written by Nancy Worcester and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309163374
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Health Research written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though slightly over half of the U.S. population is female, medical research historically has neglected the health needs of women. However, over the past two decades, there have been major changes in government support of women's health research-in policies, regulations, and the organization of research efforts. To assess the impact of these changes, Congress directed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ask the IOM to examine what has been learned from that research and how well it has been put into practice as well as communicated to both providers and women. Women's Health Research finds that women's health research has contributed to significant progress over the past 20 years in lessening the burden of disease and reducing deaths from some conditions, while other conditions have seen only moderate change or even little or no change. Gaps remain, both in research areas and in the application of results to benefit women in general and across multiple population groups. Given the many and significant roles women play in our society, maintaining support for women's health research and enhancing its impact are not only in the interest of women, they are in the interest of us all.

Author : Uta Landy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108879462
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advancing Women's Health Through Medical Education written by Uta Landy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither legalization of abortion nor scientific and political advances in contraception and abortion ensure that training and research in family planning are routinely integrated into medical education. Without integration, subsequent generations of healthcare professionals are not prepared to incorporate evidence-based family planning into their practices, teaching, or research. Omission of this crucial component prevents the cultural and professional normalization of an often stigmatized and embattled aspect of women's health. Taking the successful US-based Ryan and Family Planning Fellowship programs as templates for training, teaching, and academic leadership, this book describes the integration of family planning and pregnancy termination into curricula with an international outlook. With an evidence- and systems-based approach, the book is a unique and practical guide to inspire and train the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Author : Liz Cartwright
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780789033314
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Health written by Liz Cartwright and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combine advocacy with community based participatory research to help those who can’t help themselves Recent natural, man-made, and health-related threats to our well-being have created a need for researchers to develop new interventions to help the marginalized populations of the world who are most affected by these threats. Women’s Health: New Frontiers in Advocacy & Social Justice Research explores the importance of intervention efforts when the researcher takes on the role of advocate to represent those who can’t represent themselves. This unique book examines how the marginalization of community groups, including refugee women, rural women, and Indigenous women, affects their access to the programs and services they need in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Women’s Health: New Frontiers in Advocacy & Social Justice Research looks at different levels of community preparation in the research process, examining implementations of the CBPR (Community Based Participatory Research) models that are specifically tailored to the needs of particular communities, including a project on cervical cancer initiated by the Indigenous women of Australia, and a five-year study of Type 2 diabetes by Hispanic women and researchers in the Western United States. The book’s articles—contributed by academics, practitioners, and researchers—focus primarily on the concept that rigorous research can be conducted while still attending to the needs of community members through a more action-oriented advocacy that promotes the special interests of those members. Women’s Health: New Frontiers in Advocacy & Social Justice Research examines: qualitative and quantitative research findings on women with refugee backgrounds in Australia and New Zealand healthcare experiences of women living in rural Victoria, Australia lay-health advocacy cost-effective options for reducing adverse health outcomes in resource-poor settings domestic violence advocacy cancer screening and treatment among Indigenous women in Queensland, Australia advocacy among Hispanic farmworkers in Southeast Idaho and much more Women’s Health: New Frontiers in Advocacy & Social Justice Research is an important resource on the role of advocacy in community based participatory research. The book is an essential professional resource for anyone working to address social injustice in marginalized communities.

Author : Carol S. Weisman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780801858260
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Health Care written by Carol S. Weisman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998-04-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because women have different health needs than men, they experience the health care system differently. Women have higher morbidity, experiencing more disease and disability throughout the life span. At the same time, because women live longer, they are more susceptible to late-on-set disease, such as osteoporosis and dementia. Yet until recently, the question of gender equity in U.S. health care has received little attention.

Author : Alexander
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 128408843X
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Dimensions in Women's Health written by Alexander and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284178412
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Dimensions in Women's Health written by Linda Lewis Alexander and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 coverage of important aspects of women's health and to examine the contributing epidemiological, historical, psychosocial, cultural, ethical, legal, political, and economic influences.

Author : Linda Lewis Alexander
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Dimensions in Women's Health written by Linda Lewis Alexander and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 health.