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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Women’s Health"”.
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Designing Data Coops for Women’s Health
… community. In our case we have decided to use women as a community whose needs can be addressed by designing a data coop. We have started by consulting potential members and conducting interviews to understand this community and its challenges better. We identified multiple needs - for example, …
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A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Health Investments
Investments in women’s health remain significantly underrepresented despite mounting evidence of their societal and economic value. This thesis presents a data-driven framework for evaluating and quantifying the financial performance of publicly traded companies focused on women’s healthcare. The …
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American Indian Women’s Health Perceptions and Health Promotion Behaviors
… Most problems affecting the health of American Indian women are related to lifestyles and health-related behaviors (Carter, Morse, Giruad, & Driskell, 2008; Linsley, Kane, & Owen, 2011). Understanding health promotion behaviors could decrease or prevent a number of chronic …
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Health disparities, environmental toxicants, and midlife women’s health outcomes
Health disparities and increased exposures to environmental toxicants continue to persist in some of the most vulnerable populations including women from racial and minority groups and older populations. Women from urban areas of developed countries tend to carry the heaviest burdens of both …
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Care-Stories: Using storytelling to address the mystification of women’s health experiences
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Promoting farm to market diets: A study of Hispanic women’s health information seeking behaviors
In this paper, a model of health media usage is developed to understand how the target population that is Hispanic women makes decisions and the sources they turn to for information on health related matters. Key factors used in the investigation process were health behaviors, acculturation and …
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Improving Women’s Health Services by Adding Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods into Primary Care-Focused Student Health
… use, unintended pregnancy among young women between ages 18-24 continues to be an issue in the United States. Long-acting reversible contraceptives, including intrauterine contraceptives and the subdermal contraceptive implant, are safe, effective, long-acting, easily reversible, and …
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A Study of Middle Aged Women’s Health Status, Preparation for the Aged, and Perception of Successful Aging
본 연구는 고령사회를 직면하는 중년여성의 건강상태와 노후준비, 성공적인 노년인식에 대한 관계를 규명하여 중년여성의 건강유지증진을 위한 간호중재와 노후와 관련된 정보제공 및 노후준비 교육 프로그램 개발의 기초 자료를 제공하고자 한다. 연구대상은 경기도 S시에 있는 A대학병원 건강증진센터를 방문한 중년여성 168명을 대상으로 2012년 10월 12일부터 10월 22일까지 자료 수집하여 서술적 상관관계 연구를 실시하였다. 연구도구는 임경희(2002)의 건강상태 측정도구와 배계희(1988)와 황승일(2000)의 노후준비 측정도구, …
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Women’s health after having a baby: exploring the impact of severe maternal morbidity on psychological and physical health at 6-8 weeks postpartum
… and increasingly complex medical needs of women who become pregnant. The most commonly reported SMM in the UK includes postpartum haemorrhage and hypertensive disorders. Access to emergency obstetric care means that for the majority of UK women, SMM is unlikely to result in loss of life. …
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Meeting Women’s Health Needs in the Community: Assessment of the Physical Activity and Health Promotion Practices, Preferences and Priorities of Older Women Living with Cardiovascular Disease
… is the leading cause of death among Canadian women, and accounts for up to 30% of deaths among women worldwide. Women with CVD are typically older than their male counterparts, experience worse functional status, are more likely to experience non-CVD health conditions such as diabetes or …
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A mixed-method exploration of the level of respect provided to women during childbirth at healthcare facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… to explore the level of respect experienced by women during childbirth in Saudi healthcare settings. In the first qualitative phase, an overarching theme pertaining to women’s secure autonomy emerged. The Mother On Respect index (MORi) was culturally adapted, translated into Arabic and tested …
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Making little changes: Increasing physical activity levels through feminist community education
… This is creating a potentially dangerous unhealthy future, with significant implications of sustaining the costs of public health systems, as the increased burden of responding to projected increases in preventable chronic health conditions emerges over the next 10 – 30 years. This is a …
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"Talking About Down There": The Development of a Public Discussion of Cervical Cancer in the Twentieth Century
… lacuna. This thesis is a study of how Canadian women learned about cervical cancer and its prevention in the twentieth century. In particular, this thesis seeks to understand how, when and in what forms did a public discussion of cervical cancer prevention develop in late twentieth century …
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Navigating Menopause in the Workplace: A Case Study exploring Attitudes, Awareness, and Impact of Menopause on employees at the Healthcare Management Trust
… of the menopause transition amongst staff at the Healthcare Management Trust (HMT). Using an inductive approach to explore the subjective experiences and perceptions of respondents, a survey was distributed amongst women within HMT to obtain qualitative data. The responses received by 58 …
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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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An Analysis of Maternal Health in Burkina Faso
… the fifth of which is to “improve maternal health”. Burkina Faso has made good strides towards improving maternal health and has achieved a 57% reduction in the maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and 2010. While the lifetime risk of maternal death remains elevated at 1 in 55, in recent …
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How the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced women’s employment and their health: an inquiry into their lived experiences
… accentuated employment vulnerabilities among women working in the Canadian services sector. Research shows how poverty, precarious employment, and crisis are gendered and racialized. Few studies, however, critically explore women’s employment in Canada and how neoliberalism drives inequality. …
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Are We There Yet?: Mobilities, Shame, and the Rhetoric of the Abortion Road Trip
… year since the passage of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, interstate road travel has become a central part of the contemporary abortion access landscape. Thus, this thesis investigates “the abortion road trip” as both a conceptual framework and lived experience of restrictive abortion …
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The Mythic Underpinnings of Originalism: A Rhetorical and Legal Analysis
… of key Supreme Court decisions—Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, District of Columbia v. Heller, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District—I show how originalist rhetoric transforms judicial interpretation into ritual performance and …
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