The Health Of Women: A Global Perspective - Softcover

Koblinsky, Marge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813316081 ISBN 13: 9780813316086

Publisher: Westview Press, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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 more direct medical determinants, such as poor nutrition, hemorrhage, eclampsia, and infection. 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. 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.

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 & Howes, Washington, D.C., consulted with the National Council for International Health on the 1991 conference.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0813316081
• ISBN 13: 9780813316086
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312