Synopses & Reviews
This book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive review of the many factors that affect women’s health, ranging from low socioeconomic status and the impact of the debt crisis to more direct medical determinants, such as poor nutrition, hemorrhage, eclampsia, and infection. At stake are the unnecessary and preventable deaths of women and girls around the globe.The contributors assess the reduced quality of life for women and the often unacknowledged contributions of women and girls as the backbone of production in both developing and developed countries. Synthesizing perspectives of policymakers and practitioners, researchers and scholars, The Health of Women urges major new initiatives to understand and improve women’s health, taking into account biological elements such as the life cycle of women as well as cultural constraints and socioeconomic realities.
Synopsis
This book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive review of the many factors that affect womens health, ranging from low socioeconomic status and the impact of the debt crisis to more direct medical determinants, such as poor nutrition, hemorrhage, eclampsia, and infection. At stake are the unnecessary and preventable deaths of women and girls around the globe.The contributors assess the reduced quality of life for women and the often unacknowledged contributions of women and girls as the backbone of production in both developing and developed countries. Synthesizing perspectives of policymakers and practitioners, researchers and scholars, The Health of Women urges major new initiatives to understand and improve womens health, taking into account biological elements such as the life cycle of women as well as cultural constraints and socioeconomic realities.
Synopsis
"This book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive review of the many factors that affect womens health around the globe, ranging from low socioeconomic status and the impact of the debt crisis to"
About the Author
Marge Koblinsky, an international public health specialist, is presently director of the MotherCare Project with John Snow, Inc. Judith Timyan is director of health programs at Population Services International. Jill Gay, currently a consultant with Bass and Howes, Washington, D.C., consulted with the National Council for International Health on the 1991 conference.
Table of Contents
Women's health : the price of poverty / Jodi L. Jacobson -- Mother and more : a broader perspective on women's health / Marge Koblinsky, Oona M.R. Campbell, and Siobâan D. Harlow -- Women's nutrition through the life cycle : social and biological vulnerabilities / Kathleen M. Merchant and Kathleen M. Kurz -- Infection : social and medical realities / Jeanne McDermott ... et al. -- Family planning : a base to build on for women's reproductive health services / Andrea Eschen and Maxine Whittaker -- Abortion / Francine M. Coeytaux, Ann H. Leonard, and Carolyn M. Bloomer -- Women's mortality : a legacy of neglect / Lynn P. Freedman and Deborah Maine -- Violence against women : the missing agenda / Lori Heise -- Women's mental health : a global perspective / Freda L. Paltiel -- Access to care : more than a problem of distance / Judith Timyan ... et al..