scholarly journals CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF DALHANOKTA ARTAVA KSHAYA CHIKITSA

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-61
Author(s):  
Dr. Madhu M ◽  
Dr. Prasanna S
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Health It ◽  
Human Happiness ◽  
Menstrual Health ◽  
Principles Of Treatment ◽  
Busy Schedule

Good health is central to human happiness and wellbeing, but women's health is central to whole family happiness and wellbeing. Women's health is most neglected due to the busy schedule, shyness, negligence, etc which in turn cause many incurable medical complications. Menstrual health is one of the most neglected areas of female ill-health. It is mainly due to improper knowledge about menstrual illness. Acharyas have described separate chapters about these problems and their treatments. Artava kshaya is one among them. Many treatment modalities are explained by Acharya Sushruta but Dalhana comments on the main principles of treatment which has good results in treating Artava kshaya. This paper is to critically analyze Dalhanokta Artavakshya chikitsa.

Imperfect Information in Menstrual Health and the Role of Informed Choice

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Mahajan
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Informed Choice ◽  
Menstrual Hygiene ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Menstrual Health ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Culture Of Silence

This article explores how imperfect information and the culture of silence around menstruation have shaped the menstrual hygiene product market. It is generally considered that the use of sanitary napkins is equivalent to hygiene. This view is critically evaluated in light of evidence. In a highly competitive market, materials used in sanitary napkin products have evolved significantly. Policymakers and regulators need to be informed about the nature of products entering the Indian market and their implications on women’s health and cost to the environment. The menstrual hygiene market now offers some less-known innovations such as menstrual cups, reusable cloth pads and compostable sanitary napkins that could offer a more sustainable direction to the industry. However, they also have their own barriers to access and use. Given the increasing choice available in the market and potential for accessing information, it has become pertinent that relevant stakeholders—such as women, government officials and the media—are made aware of the basket of options for menstrual hygiene management. Field experiments done to this end indicate that informed choice will automatically ensure that cost to women’s health and the environment is minimised.

scholarly journals The Politicization of Women’s Health and Wellbeing

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udi Sommer ◽  
Aliza Forman-Rabinovici
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Morality Policy ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Intergovernmental Organization ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Development Goals

The framers and advocates of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals face a unique challenge when it comes to the goals of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, good health and wellbeing, as it concerns women’s health. The health of women, and in particular reproductive rights, have been politicized in the work of the UN. Forums of the UN have become a battleground between those who would frame reproductive rights as a morality policy versus those who frame them as a feminist policy. This problem is not new to the organization’s work. Indeed, it has been a challenge to the UN’s ability to promote women’s health for years. This article explores how the framing of women’s reproductive rights poses a unique challenge to implementing some of the goals of SDG3, and in particular targets 3.1, 3.7, and 3.8. It also offers strategies to surmount the challenge with an example of a different intergovernmental organization that managed to overcome this issue.

An Initiative in Spain for the Study of Women's Health: The Murcia Twin Registry

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 865-867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan R. Ordoñana ◽  
Francisco Pérez-Riquelme ◽  
Francisca González-Javier ◽  
Eduvigis Carrillo ◽  
Jesús Gómez-Amor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Health It ◽  
Twin Registry ◽  
Health Council ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
The University ◽  
Age Range

AbstractThe present article describes the initial steps taken in setting up a twin registry in Spain. The Murcia Twin Registry (MTR) will focus initially on perimenopausal women's health. It will be administered and managed by the University of Murcia and the Murcia Health Council and will start with a database of 452 pairs of female twins born between 1940 and 1965 in the region of Murcia, Spain. Once the MTR is established and has gained some experience, our goal is to expand the age range and include males and opposite-sex twins. The current main areas of research interest are menopause, preventive behaviors, lifestyle and health as well as quality of life.

The Women's Health Australia Project and Policy Development

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Bryson
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Good Health ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Age Cohorts

The Women's Health Australia (WHA) project plans to follow the health of a national sample of around 42,000 women who, in 1996, were in the age cohorts 18-22, 45-49 and 70-74. The multi-disciplinary research team adopts a social approach to health, focuses on biological, psychological, social and lifestyle factors and their relationship to physical health and emotional wellbeing, and is examining the use of, and satisfaction with, health care services. Base-line survey data highlight diversity and the need for health policy to tailor communications to the different age groups. In terms of general wellbeing and service appropriateness, the young are the most problematic, the mid cohort next, while older women indicate fewest problems. Young women experience the highest levels of stress, often suffer from tiredness and are over-concerned with their weight and shape. They are also most dissatisfied with GP services. Issues of employment and health are also central. In general employment is associated with good health, but strains are evident when there are family commitments. As employment becomes increasingly normalised for women, health policy must be mindful of these effects and the significant difficulties faced by a small group of women whose health precludes employment.

scholarly journals An Ancient Art form to a Therapeutic Intervention- Belly Dancing & Women’s Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 386-390
Author(s):  
Taarini Kamath ◽  
Aishwarya Nair
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Therapeutic Intervention ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Belly Dance ◽  
Health It ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Belly Dancing ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: Dance or movement therapy has been proved to have a curative power for ages. Physical fitness is controlled by a combination of the potential the person has in doing his/her own regular activity and genetically inherited capability. Belly dance is an expressionistic type of dance that initially originated in Egypt which lays emphasis on complex movements of the trunk. Belly dancing has gracefully swayed its way to mainstream cardiovascular and musculoskeletal fitness all over the world, with significant impact on women’s health. Objective: To provide concise overview of Belly dancing and its effects on women’s health. Methods: A Search of PUBMED, CINHAL, Google Scholar. database was conducted to find relevant studies in relation to Belly dancing as a therapeutic intervention in the paradigm of women’s health. The studies that met with the inclusion criteria were included in this review. Results: This review provides a crisp understanding of the impact of Belly dancing on several pathologies namely, breast cancer, urinary incontinence, fibromyalgia, malignancies and low back pain. It also discusses about the biomechanical aspects of abdomen and pelvis that are involved during belly dancing. Conclusion: The study provides an up-to-date outline of the existing literature on Belly Dancing and women’s health. It lays emphasis on the effects of belly dancing as an intervention used to enhance women’s health cohesively.

scholarly journals Menstrual Justice: A Missing Element in India’s Health Policies

2020 ◽  
pp. 511-527
Author(s):  
Swatija Manorama ◽  
Radhika Desai
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Menstrual Health ◽  
Lack Of Control ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
Missing Element

Abstract Proposing a novel framework of menstrual justice, the chapter argues that women’s health needs must be understood as the result of the complex interplay of their everyday gendered experiences of living, their biology, and their medical condition. The Indian state’s health policies fail women because they do not recognize that the marking of women as impure menstruating bodies is a cause of women’s health inequity from birth to death. This very denial by the state policy of women’s gendered experience of health is menstrual injustice. The chapter elaborates on this idea by establishing the links between women’s stigmatization as menstruating bodies, lack of control over their bodies, and ill-health, pointing to the high incidence of a variety of menstrual health problems in pre-menarche, during menstruation, perimenopause and postmenopause. The chapter then identifies the gender-specific biases, blind spots, gaps, and barriers in state policies that impede the security of women’s health across their life-cycles.

Development of the 2000-2005 Victorian Women's Health Plan: A Case Study

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Marilyn Beaumont
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Health Plan ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Promotion Policy

The paper describes and assesses the development of the 2000 to 2005 Victorian Women's Health Plan; a policy overtaken by a range of political processes. It provides a working example of health promotion policy development including mapping the history and context behind the development of the policy. The paper is written from the author's view that good health policy behind funding arrangements is critical for good health practice. It is also important for health service providers to have an understanding of the politics and processes surrounding health policy development and implementation surrounding their practice and to work with this understanding to improve health outcomes. This is particularly the case with health promotion policy because outcomes are generally only identifiable in the longer term. Within Victoria, during the period 1995-1998, a number of things occurred to provide an environment for renewal of interest and potential for progress in women's health policy development. This included an increasing understanding of the relationship between gender and health outcomes. The complex economic, political and environmental elements, understanding of opportunities available, actions developed and taken, and the results are all expanded upon in the paper. The activity resulted in the launch, in August 1999, of the five-year Victorian Women's Health Plan. It was hailed by the then Victorian Premier on the launch occasion as the 'first comprehensive women's health plan to be developed by any Australian state, which leads the way for other States to follow'. The launch coincided with the calling of a State government election. Four weeks later there was a change of government and the process to develop policy has began again.

Lifestyle issues

2021 ◽  
pp. 583-594
Author(s):  
Sunanda Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Fruit And Vegetables ◽  
Processed Meat ◽  
Health It

This chapter covers general lifestyle issues in women’s health. It includes elements such as diet (the role of fruit and vegetables, red and/or processed meat, dairy, and alcohol), smoking, and obesity. It also covers transgender care and the gender identity clinic.

Women's Health in Melbourne's Print Media: A Content Analysis

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Shug g ◽  
Pranee Liamputtong Rice
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Health It ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Reaction

This paper examines the portrayal of women's health issues in two newspapers: The Age and The Herald Sun. It aims to discover the frequency in Melbourne's print media of coverage of women's health issues, the placement of these articles, the variety of women's health topics covered, and the underlying messages in articles on women's health. It also aims to investigate the level of public reaction to the area of women's health by monitoring the Letters to the Editor and Your Say columns. The study employed an unobtrusive method and was conducted over a three month period: May to July 1998. It found that 38.46% of health articles published between May and July were specifically related to women's health, and that 22.17% of public reaction responses to health over the same period were related to women's health. There was little variety in the coverage of women's health, as many of the articles and public reaction responses centred on women and their ability to conceive and raise children. This implies that women are still portrayed by the media as 'mothers' in Australian society.

Women’s health and other gender issues at work

2019 ◽  
pp. 162-183
Author(s):  
Blandina Blackburn ◽  
Patrick Bose
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Gender Dysphoria ◽  
Health Personnel ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Work Health ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender

This chapter describes occupational health perspectives on women’s health at work. It looks at known physical and anticipated psychological symptoms of gynaecological and obstetric disorders and gender dysphoria manifested in a range of symptoms that have an impact on work health and performance. It advises on possible adjustments and applicable legal requirements where relevant. Pregnancy and menopause are separate headings as they are common in the workplace, as more women are working, and working for longer. The adjustments to help the employee with such issues at work are in order to acknowledge and normalize these issues, while maintaining good health and performance at work. New additions include infertility and gender dysphoria, and their management in the workplace. Risk assessments in different work scenarios are crucial in order to advise on adjustments. This chapter is written for qualified, trained occupational health personnel, but can be used by other clinicians and interested parties.

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