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The Health Of Women: A Global Perspective book cover

1st Edition

The Health Of Women A Global Perspective

By Marge Koblinsky, Judith Timyan, Jill Gay Copyright 1993
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

291 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more
Foreword -- Introduction -- Women’s Health: The Price of Poverty -- Mother and More: A Broader Perspective on Women’s Health -- Women’s Nutrition Through the Life Cycle: Social and Biological Vulnerabilities -- Infection: Social and Medical Realities -- Family Planning: A Base to Build on for Women’s Reproductive Health Services -- Abortion -- Women’s Mortality: A Legacy of Neglect -- Violence Against Women: The Missing Agenda -- Women’s Mental Health: A Global Perspective -- Access to Care: More Than a Problem of Distance -- Quality of Care: A Neglected Dimension -- Health Women’s Way: Learning to Listen

Biography

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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