Full Description
This book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the most important protective and risk factors for women's health, and reviews the main areas of medical science from a gender perspective. Numerous scientific experiments and studies have shown how gender differences significantly affect the clinical presentation of physical and mental health disorders as well as responses to treatments. This text highlights these issues, while at the same time reflecting on the practical implications of the theoretical knowledge presented.
It also examines the organization of social and health services, which should increasingly take into account the specificities related to gender differences and where equality is based on truly embracing these differences. The final part provides insights into the experiences and testimonies collected by the authors of the book. Written by a multidisciplinary team of medical, psychosocial and humanities professionals, this book is of interest to health professionals and medical students.
Contents
Foreword.- Preface.- Fairness, Equality and Health: Toward a Gender Oriented Prospective.- The Woman in the History of Health.- Gender Violence: Risk Factors and Resilience.- Vulnerability Factors and Protective Factors for Mental Health: A Rereading in Gender Perspective.- Gender, Genoma and Health.- Women at Work.- Women, Migration and Social.- Environment.- Media.- Cinema.- Women and music.- Sport and Gender.- Diet and Gender.- Motherhood, Childbirth and Perinatal Age.- Childhood.- Adolescence.- Sexual health, LGBT and.- Human Right.- Senility.- Heart and Vascular Disorders.- Endocrine Disorders.- Urogenital and Reproductive Disorders.- Central and Peripheral Nervous Disorders.- Psychiatric.- Disorders.- Gender and Pain.- The Brain Gut Axis and the Gender.- Infectious diseases and gender.- Social Services.- Primary Care.- Towards Gender-Sensitive Mental Health Services.- Guarantee Committee for Equal Opportunity, Employee Well-being and Non-discrimination at Work (CUG).- Prevention of Violence and Emergency Services.- When the woman is the mother: the work of pediatrician for caring mothers and children.- ADU.- A Vase of Flowers.- Women at School.- When the daughter is a doctor.
