Women's health from womb to tomb
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Women's health from womb to tomb
Macmillan, 1991
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first sections of this book look at women's health in a general perspective, concentrating primarily on the countries of Europe but using developing world countries to show how similar they may be or what changes have taken place in our Western achievement of a greater lenght of life. The second part concentrates in much more detail on examining differences between women and men at different ages or stages of life. Penny Karen also wrote "The Which? Guide to Birth Control" and "The Second Billion: People and Population in China".
Table of Contents
List of Tables - List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Trends in Women's Health - Explanations for Women's Advantage - Women and Illness - Social and Economic Health Differences - Female Health in Childhood - Female Health in Early Adulthood - Health in the Middle and Later Years - Reflections on Women's Health - References - Index
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