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Womens Health
A Primary Care Clinical Guide
Edition 3
Ellis Youngkin, Marcia Davis
0-13-110026-2
Paperback
960 pages
2003
Brief Description
For graduate Nursing students, Nurse Practitioner students, Nurse Practictioners, and Nurse Midwives.
Using a systematic, problem-solving format, the third edition of this popular book provides comprehensive information on health maintenance and promotion in the care of women. Completely revised, this edition thoroughly addresses the issues most important in all primary care areas, including obstetrics, gynecologic, general medical conditions, and psychosocial matters. Designed as a handbook, Womens Health is an easy-to-use resource that allows quick access to relevant health care material.
Features
- New chapter, “Complementary Therapies in Womens Health” - Added at the request of numerous readers.
- Provides students with insights into alternative and complementary therapies that they may offer to help a client.
Updated chapters.
- Gives students current and up-to-date information.
Up-to-date guidelines - Includes new data that negate prior understandings.
- Provides students with the most current material available on diagnoses and management, as well as the current CDC guidelines.
Comprehensive organization - Divided into general health information, gynecologic health care, pregnancy health care, and primary care problems.
- Enables students to understand that womens health cannot be narrowed just to reproductive issues; the whole person must be assessed and assisted.
Unique, streamlined format - Designed to be not only a text, but a handbook that enhances learning and application.
- Allows students, instructors and practictioners to retrieve basic information easily, making it a valuable resource.
Full-colour insert - Features over 20 photographs.
- Provides students with an important visual tool that enhances learning.
Contents
I. WOMEN, HEALTH, AND THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
1. Women and the Health Care System.
2. Health and Development Through the Life Cycle.
3. Assessing Adolescent Womens Health.
4. Assessing Womens Health.
5. Integrating Wellness: Complementary Therapies and Womens Health.
6. Women and Sexuality.
7. Health Needs of Lesbians.
II. PROMOTION OF GYNECOLOGIC HEALTH.
8. Menstruation and Related Problems and Concerns.
9. Controlling Fertility.
10. Infertility.
11. Vaginitis and Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
12. Women and HIV.
13. Common Gynecologic Pelvic Disorders.
14. Breast Health.
15. The Climacteric, Menopause, and the Process of Aging.
III. PROMOTION OF WOMENS HEALTH DURING PREGNANCY.
16. Assessing Health During Pregnancy.
17. Promoting a Healthy Pregnancy.
18. Complications of Pregnancy.
19. Assessing Fetal Well-Being.
20. Postpartum and Lactation.
IV. PRIMARY CARE CONDITIONS AFFECTING WOMENS HEALTH.
21. Common Medical Problems: Cardiovascular Through Hematological Disorders.
22. Common Medical Problems: Musculoskeletal Injuries Through Urinary Tract Disorders.
23. Psychosocial Health Concerns.
24. Health Care Concerns for Women with Physical Disability and Chronic Illness.
Appendix A: Emergency Childbirth.
Appendix B: Immediate Assessment of the Newborn.
Appendix C: Selected Laboratory Values.
Index.
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