Access to Health Care
Behavioral/Mental Health
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Environmental Health Risks
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Ethnicity and Health
Geography and World Cultures: Culture
Infectious and Noncommunicable Diseases
LGBTQ Identity Issues and Health
Religion and Health
Reproductive Health
Social Determinants of Health
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- ISBN 9781440861994
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
AnnJanette Alejano-Steele, PhD, is associate dean of the College of Professional Studies and professor of psychology and gender studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
