Women's health

Woods, Nancy Fugate. (Added Author). Heitkemper, Margaret M. (Margaret McLean) (Added Author).

Record details

Physical Description: print
xiv, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Saunders, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Stress, stress response, and health / Sandra Adams Motzer and Vicky Hertig -- Nurses' health : work and family influences / Marcia G. Killien -- Gender disparities in health : attending to the particulars / Barbara Burns McGrath and Elayne Puzan -- Women's physical and mental health sequellae of wartime service / Eleanor Frank Bond -- Irritable bowel syndrome in women : a common health problem / Margaret Heitkemper, Monica Jarrett, and Eleanor F. Bond -- Two overlooked mood disorders in women : subsyndromal depression and prenatal depression / Marie-Annette Brown and Joanne E. Solchany -- Sleep and menopause / Carol A. Landis and Karen E. Moe -- Perimenopause : an update / Nancy Fugate Woods and Ellen Sullivan Mitchell -- Healthy aging for older women / Heather M. Young and Barbara B. Cochrane -- Risk factors for coronary heart disease in women / Katherine M. Newton -- Why tobacco is a women's health issue / Linda Sarna and Stella Aguinaga Bialous -- Physical activity and exercise in women's health / Basia Belza and Catherine Warms -- Fibromyalgia syndrome in women / Joan L. Shaver -- Women with substance abuse concerns / Andrea Kovalesky -- Hepatitis C virus / Monica Jarrett and Paula Cox -- Weight management in women / Karen E. Dennis.