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Showing 1 to 20 of 224 for “"Women's Health"”.
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From Jane to the Journal of Women's Health: Women's health as an emergent body of medical knowledge
… Chicago of the first hospital-based primary care women's health center--Illinois Masonic Medical Center's Women's Health Resources--a discourse has emerged within medicine that defines ""women's health"" as being ""more than"" a woman's reproductive organs. Of particular significance is the …
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Menstrual tracking applications in women's health studies
… data from the Ovulation and Menstruation (OM) Health Study to view relationships between PCOS/demographic groups and preference for tracking methods. The top 10 most popular mobile menstrual tracking applications were compiled through a search on the iOS operating system. Mobile menstrual …
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Why a Healthy Diet is Important for Women's Health
<p>Nutrition plays a critical role in women’s reproductive health, yet many women face barriers to maintaining a balanced diet. This study aimed to examine the relationship between nutritional intake and reproductive health outcomes among women of reproductive age, as well as to assess their …
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Advocating for Women's Health: The Importance of Family Planning Clinics
<p>Many women regard family planning clinics as their first entry point into the health care system, and one they consider their usual source of care. Each year, publicly funded family planning services prevent 1.94 million unintended pregnancies, including 400,000 teen pregnancies (Guttmacher …
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Risk factors in women's health in different stages of life.
Contains fulltext : 127371.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Tearing of Vaginal Tissue under Biaxial Loading: Implications for Women's Health
Around 80% of women experience vaginal tears during labor when the diameter of the vagina must increase from ~2.5 cm to ~9.5 cm to allow the passage of a full-term baby. Vaginal tears vary from superficial cuts of the mucosal lining to tears propagating through the entire vaginal wall and into the …
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Agrochemicals and rural women's health in the Volta Region of Ghana
1 PDF file (vii, 76 pages)
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The Effects of Women's Health and Life Experiences on Surgical Intervention
Research suggests that violence against women is a significant public health problem that has reached catastrophic levels. Women who are abused use health care services at higher rates than those who are not abused and continue to experience health problems long after the original trauma. Few …
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Information, women's health and development : strategies for information provision in Africa
The literature relating to women's health in Africa focuses on health information seeking needs. It rarely focuses on how women's health information needs link to the development of the continent. The dissertation examines the interrelationships between women's health information needs and …
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COMPROMISING EFFECTS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE ON COLLEGE WOMEN'S HEALTH PROMOTING BEHAVIORS
… effects of intimate partner violence on college women's health promoting behaviors such as physical exercise. Data were collected from 375 college women and 122 male students at a large Midwestern university. Examination of demographic variables and other background factors in both the female and …
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Role of mast cells in women's health and disorders of the endometrium
… endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity: women with endometriosis can suffer from a debilitating range of symptoms including chronic pain. Whilst the aetiology of endometriosis is uncertain, close proximity between MCs and nerves has implicated them in aberrant activation of pain pathways. …
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Weight Fluctuation and Cancer Risk in Post-Menopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative
… and colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women.
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Centred voices : A study of the lived experience of women's health centre coordinators
… to explore and describe the lived experience of women's health centre coordinators. In addition to the intrinsic value of telling these women's stories, this research provides data which can he used to strengthen the economic, political, organisational and social position of women’s health …
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Planning for women's health needs: an alternative approach; case studies of women's clinics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1973. M.C.P.
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The women's health project: a community intervention for AIDS risk reduction in women
… of heterosexually transmitted AIDS among women have increased at an alarming rate. However, due to the conceptualization of AIDS as a "gay male" disease, little research attention has been devoted to the prevention of HIV infection among women. The purpose of the current intervention was …
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NONHUMAN PRIMATES AS A TRANSLATIONAL MODEL OF ENDOMETRIOSIS AND ITS EFFECTS ON WOMEN'S HEALTH
… affects approximately 10% of reproductive-aged women and symptoms include pain, infertility, and heavy or irregular menses. Endometriosis lesions are characterized by excess iron content and macrophage infiltration. Despite decades of endometriosis research, little is known about macrophage …
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