Health care for women

About this book

This volume integrates psychosocial, behavioral, and medical perspectives to encourage health promotion and disease prevention for women. Accounting for the social and behavioral context of women's lives, the authors review the factors that disproportionately affect women, such as domestic violence, multiple roles, and lower socioeconomic status. Specific assessment techniques are outlined to help health care practitioners identify conditions that are frequently misdiagnosed in women. Life-style factors that affect the health of women throughout the life span are discussed. Additional chapters are devoted to life-threatening and chronic conditions affecting women, including cardiovascular disease, HIV infection, breast cancer, and recurrent headaches. Readers will be guided in understanding how women cope with these conditions, and advised on ways to promote well-being in women who are suffering from these illnesses. This book is intended for medical educators, physicians, nurses, medical social workers, health and clinical psychologists and educators and students in these fields. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).