Women and Health
eBook - ePub

Women and Health

Global Lives in Focus

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Women and Health

Global Lives in Focus

About this book

This volume on global women's health provides a broad overview of many conditions that impact women's health, including social and economic inequities and examples of health advocacy. The health and wellbeing of the world's population matters, but many of the female half experience unequal access to information and care that increases their health risks. This global women's health volume delves into a number of health and social factors that combine to create a lower quality of life for women. Each chapter represents a global region, featuring three to four countries, and reviews health goals and outcomes relative to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and World Health Organization discussions on social determinants of health. Chapters are organized to invite readers to consider environmental conditions and social determinants that create gender inequities in health around the globe. Cultural forces that impact health, including environmental risks; access to health care; reproductive health; infectious and noncommunicable diseases; behavioral/mental health; and intersectional identity considerations such as religion, ethnicity, and LGBTQ identity issues.

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Information

Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781440861994
eBook ISBN
9798216166214
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chronology
  9. One: United States and Canada
  10. Two: Latin America and the Caribbean
  11. Three: Europe
  12. Four: North Africa and the Middle East
  13. Five: Sub-Saharan Africa
  14. Six: Central and East Asia
  15. Seven: South and Southeast Asia
  16. Eight: Oceania
  17. Appendix A: Health Outcomes—World Health Organization
  18. Appendix B: Gender Inequality Index
  19. Selected Bibliography
  20. About the Editor and Contributors
  21. Index