New Dimensions in Women's Health - Softcover

Alexander, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449698131 ISBN 13: 9781449698133

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013

Synopsis

A Fully Revised and Updated Edition of the Classic Women's Health Text

New Dimensions in Women's Health: Sixth Edition is a comprehensive and practical text that offers students the tools to understand the health of women of all cultures, races, ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and sexual orientations. The fully revised and updated sixth edition gives women critical information needed to optimize their well-being, avoid illness and injury, and support their health. Each chapter presents in-depth coverage of an important aspect of women's health and examines the contributing epidemiological, historical, psycho-social, cultural, ethical, legal, political, and economic influences.

This text is appropriate for undergraduate students studying Health Education, Nursing, and Women's Studies as well as students in general health education electives.

Key features:

Discusses exercise, nutrition, and weight management.
Explores interpersonal and social dimensions of women's health.
Includes quotes from real women, which offer students varied perspectives, opinions, and thoughts from women of all ages, races, and cultures.
Profiles of Remarkable Women sections highlight individual women who contributed to the health and well-being of women.
Topics for Discussion at the end of each chapter encourage students to consider their opinions on a topic and to explore the philosophical dimensions surrounding issues of women's health.

Addresses issues regarding sexual health and sexuality, as well as sexual violence as a public health problem.
Presents a practical approach to understanding the health of all women inclusive of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, culture, and orientation.
Each chapter reviews an important dimension of a woman's general health and examines the contributing epidemiological, historical, psychosocial, cultural, ethical, legal, political, and economic influences.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Linda Lewis Alexander has an extensive career in public health and women's health. She is currently Vice President, Women's Health and Global Advocacy for QAIGEN, Inc. In this role, Dr. Alexander oversees corporate women's health program efforts in the public sector and advocacy support initiatives in global cervical cancer prevention. Her previous professional experiences include serving as Vice President, Women’s Health at Digene Corporation and President and CEO of the American Social Health Association (ASHA). At ASHA she provided national leadership and worked in close partnership with industry and federal leaders to promote national awareness for all sexually transmitted diseases. Dr. Alexander is also a retired lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Her military career included assignments in community health nursing in the United States and Europe, and she was a nurse epidemiologist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. As a health educator, she has held academic positions at the University of Maryland–College Park and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. In her position as Vice President for Women’s Health and Science with United Information Systems, she provided leadership with the Department of Defense congressionally appropriated research programs in breast cancer, osteoporosis, and ovarian cancer. Dr. Alexander is nationally known for her leadership in women’s health advocacy and has published extensively on women's health issues. Her many honors include appointments to national advisory panels on infectious diseases and women's health; she also is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She holds a baccalaureate degree in nursing, master’s degrees in education/counseling and community health, and a doctoral degree in health education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1449698131
• ISBN 13: 9781449698133
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 492