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Women and Health: Global Lives in Focus: Women and Society around the World

Editat de AnnJanette Alejano-Steele
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 noi 2019 – vârsta până la 17 ani
This volume on global women's health provides a broad overview of many conditions that impact women's health, including social and economic inequities and examples of health advocacy.The health and wellbeing of the world's population matters, but many of the female half experience unequal access to information and care that increases their health risks. This global women's health volume delves into a number of health and social factors that combine to create a lower quality of life for women. Each chapter represents a global region, featuring three to four countries, and reviews health goals and outcomes relative to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and World Health Organization discussions on social determinants of health. Chapters are organized to invite readers to consider environmental conditions and social determinants that create gender inequities in health around the globe. Cultural forces that impact health, including environmental risks; access to health care; reproductive health; infectious and noncommunicable diseases; behavioral/mental health; and intersectional identity considerations such as religion, ethnicity, and LGBTQ identity issues.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781440861994
ISBN-10: 1440861994
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția ABC-CLIO
Seria Women and Society around the World

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

A Chronology will provide an at-a-glance timeline of women and health throughout world history, from ancient times to the present

Notă biografică

AnnJanette Alejano-Steele, PhD, is associate dean of the College of Professional Studies and professor of psychology and gender studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Cuprins

Series ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAnnJanette Alejano-Steele and Amanda FingerChronologyONE United States and CanadaAnnJanette Alejano-Steele and J. M1ichele PruittTWO Latin America and the CaribbeanSophia Matuszewicz and AnnJanette Alejano-SteeleTHREE EuropePaige MillsFOUR North Africa and the Middle EastMarley Hutchison and AnnJanette Alejano-SteeleFIVE Sub-Saharan AfricaGwen Vogel MitchellSIX Central and East AsiaAnnette Bennington McElhineySEVEN South and Southeast AsiaAnnJanette Alejano-SteeleEIGHT OceaniaErika ChurchAppendix A: Health Outcomes-World Health OrganizationAppendix B: Gender Inequality IndexSelected BibliographyAbout the Editor and ContributorsIndex

Recenzii

This is a useful introductory resource for public health and women's studies.
Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.