Women's Health Care
Carol S. Weisman
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Description for Women's Health Care
Paperback. Topics addressed include the historical, theoretical, and empirical: gender differences in health and health care; the multiplicity of providers from whom women receive health care; the need to integrate reproductive health care and other components of primary care; such new organizational forms as women's health centers; and financing. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 475.
The fact that women experience the health care system differently than men is as issue of increasing importance to health professionals as well as the general public. Yet, while women's health problems have received unprecedented attention in recent years, the unique relationship between women and health care institutions remains little understood. In Women's Health Care: Activist Traditions and InstitutionalChange, Carol Weisman examines the nature of women's health care today and how U.S.women-as both providers and consumers of health care-are seeking to change health care institutions and policy. Using a sociological perspective, Women's Health Care: Activist Traditions and Institutional Change critically ... Read more
The fact that women experience the health care system differently than men is as issue of increasing importance to health professionals as well as the general public. Yet, while women's health problems have received unprecedented attention in recent years, the unique relationship between women and health care institutions remains little understood. In Women's Health Care: Activist Traditions and InstitutionalChange, Carol Weisman examines the nature of women's health care today and how U.S.women-as both providers and consumers of health care-are seeking to change health care institutions and policy. Using a sociological perspective, Women's Health Care: Activist Traditions and Institutional Change critically ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801858260
SKU
V9780801858260
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-18
About Carol S. Weisman
Carol S. Weisman, Ph.D. is Professor of Health Evaluation Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Central Pennsylvania Center of Excellence for Research on Pregnancy Outcomes at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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