Contemporary women's health : issues for today and the future
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Contemporary women's health : issues for today and the future
WCB/McGraw-Hill, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Takes a balanced and comprehensive look at many of the health and social issues which impact women of the 1990s. The text emphasizes prevention and becoming a wise healthcare consumer, while looking at relationships and lifestyle throughout the lifespan.
Table of Contents
- Why study women's health? Developing a healthy lifestyle
- life transitions - infancy to early adulthood
- life transitions - middle to late adulthood
- mental and emotional wellness
- enhancing well-being
- managing the stress of life
- contemporary lifestyle and social issues
- eating well
- keeping fit
- avoiding tobacco use
- using alcohol responsibly
- using other psychoactive drugs
- becoming a wise consumer
- preventing abuse against women
- sexual and relational wellness
- building healthy relationships
- examining gynaecological issues
- planning for a family
- childbirth and parenting
- communicable and chronic conditions
- preventing AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases
- managing cardiovascular health and other chronic conditions
- preventing cancer.
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