Only Women Bleed: Menstruation, Women and Public Health

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Lynn Holt
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Current Medical ◽  
Biological Entity ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Scientific Medicine ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Significant Life

Menarche for women is a significant life event. How a women perceives herself throughout her life can be influenced by her experience and attitude to this event. Menstruation has been successfully pathologised by scientific medicine, and the notion of women as biologically defective has contributed to gender inequalities. A feminist framework for exploring the current medical ideology of women as a biological entity will be addressed by this paper, and the consequences this may have for women's health and public health practise will be addressed.

scholarly journals Health and Gender Inequalities of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adverse Impacts on Women's Health, Wealth and Social Welfare

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Guerrina ◽  
Bettina Borisch ◽  
Leigh F. Callahan ◽  
Jeremy Howick ◽  
Jean-Yves Reginster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Musculoskeletal Diseases ◽  
Urgent Care ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
And Gender

In this paper we discuss the nexus of health and gender inequalities associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight its adverse impacts on women's health, welfare and social standing. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the link between socio-economic inequalities and health outcomes, especially in the area of rheumatic and musculoskeletal (RMDs) diseases. Women are more adversely affected by RMDs diseases compared to men. Epidemiological research carried out over several decades has demonstrated the presence of clear gender patterns in the manifestation of musculoskeletal diseases, including osteoarthritis (OA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), systemic sclerosis (SS) and osteoporosis (OP). The public health measures that have been adopted to curb the spread of Sars-COV-2 are expected to have a particularly detrimental impact on women in the long term precisely because of the nexus between health outcomes and socio-economic structures. Moreover, the prioritization of urgent care will further compound this effect. COVID-19 has created a condition of ontological insecurity that is becoming increasingly manifested through various chronic diseases and associated comorbidities. RMDs and their impact on mobility and the ability of individuals to be independent, happy and mobile is a key public health challenge in the post-COVID-19 reality and a key part of the ongoing pandemic. There is an urgent need to engage with policymakers to publicize and prioritize this problem and develop viable solutions to address it.

scholarly journals Understanding the Spatial-Related Abstraction of Public Health Impact Goals and Measures: Illustrated by the Example of the Austrian Action Plan on Women’s Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 773
Author(s):  
Tatjana Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Policy Paper ◽  
High Degree

The influence of spatial aspects on people’s health is internationally proven by a wealth of empirical findings. Nevertheless, questions concerning public health still tend to be negotiated among social and health scientists. This was different in the elaboration of the Austrian Action Plan on Women’s Health (AAPWH). On the example of the target group of older women, it is shown whether and to what extent the inclusion of the spatial planning perspective in the discussion of impact goals and measures is reflected in the respective inter-ministerial policy paper. The retrospective analysis on the basis of a document analysis of the AAPWH and qualitative interviews with public health experts who were also invited to join, or rather were part of, the expert group, brings to light the following key reasons for the high degree of spatial-related abstraction of the content of this strategic health policy paper: the requirement for general formulations, the lack of public and political awareness for the different living situations in different spatial archetypes, and the lack of external perception of spatial planning as a key discipline with regard to the creation of equivalent living conditions. Nonetheless, this research has promoted the external perception of spatial planning as a relevant discipline in public health issues in Austria. Furthermore, first thematic starting points for an in-depth interdisciplinary dialogue were identified.

scholarly journals Exploring the Linkages between Substance Use, Natural Disasters, Pandemics, and Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Rapid Review in the Context of COVID-19

Sexes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-522
Author(s):  
Andreea C. Brabete ◽  
Lindsay Wolfson ◽  
Julie Stinson ◽  
Nancy Poole ◽  
Sarah Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women

Rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) and substance use have risen during the COVID-19 pandemic, with potentially enduring effects on women’s health. A rapid review was conducted on IPV and women’s substance use in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapid review explored two separate research questions with a view to integrate the literature related to: (1) containment, social isolation, pandemics, disasters, lockdowns, and IPV; and (2) the relationships between substance use and IPV. Two different searches for each question were conducted between May and October 2020 and n = 47 articles were included. Women experience multiple physical and mental health consequences related to IPV that can be exacerbated by public health crises such as pandemics and disasters. Perpetrators may use these events as a tactic to threaten, isolate, or use coercive control. Similar tactics are reported in the complex relationship between IPV and substance use, where substance use can accompany IPV and/or be used as a coping mechanism for survivors. The findings highlight long standing women’s health concerns made further visible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional research is needed to identify actions required to reduce gender inequities and harms associated with IPV and substance use, and to adequately tailor and prepare effective responses in the context of future public health crises.

The Evolution of a National Public Health Initiative on Diabetes and Women's Health: A Model Process

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 839-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Alfaro-Correa Sc.D., M.A. ◽  
Gloria Beckles ◽  
Christopher Benjamin ◽  
Barbara Bowman ◽  
Yvonne Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Health Initiative ◽  
Public Health Initiative ◽  
National Public Health

Not forgetting gender: women and dementia

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-230
Author(s):  
Jill Manthorpe ◽  
Kritika Samsi
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Policy Communities

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how any proposed Women’s Health Strategy could address the needs of women affected by dementia in England. Design/methodology/approach The authors take the following three perspectives: women living with dementia, female carers and female practitioners supporting people with dementia. Findings In this paper, the authors explore the current evidence about dementia and female gender under three main strands relating to policy and practise. Originality/value There is worldwide interest amongst policy communities in gender inequalities.

Screening for Substance Abuse in Women's Health: A Public Health Imperative

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisy J. Goodman ◽  
Kristina B. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health

scholarly journals Imprisonment and women's health: concerns about gender sensitivity, human rights and public health

2011 ◽  
Vol 89 (9) ◽  
pp. 689-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda van den Bergh ◽  
Alex Gatherer ◽  
Andrew Fraser ◽  
Lars Moller
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Health Concerns
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