This comprehensive handbook will provide nurses and other health-care professionals with a major new resource on women's health issuesThe handbook opens with a presentation of vital demographics, examining women's health within specific age groups.Next, the contributors deal with nursing and health-care practice, beginning with an examination of women's experiences as recipients of health care, and then moving on to establish frameworks for the practice and assessment of the healthy woman.Chapters on health-care promotion for women address such topics as nutrition, exercise and fertility control in terms of current theory and research.The handbook ends with an examinati

PART ONEWomen and Their Health - Nancy Fugate WoodsWomen as Health Care Providers - Carol LeppaWomen¿s Bodies - Nancy Fugate WoodsYoung Women - Nancy Fugate WoodsMidlife Women¿s Health - Catherine Ingram Fogel and Nancy Fugate WoodsOld Women - Margaret DimondPART TWOWomen and Health Care - Debbie WardFrameworks for Nursing Practice with Women - Nancy Fugate WoodsWell-Woman Assessment - Linda Wheeler and Catherine Ingram FogelLesbian Health Care - Sharon DeeveyPART THREEHealth Protection and Health Promotion for Women - Ellen MitchellNutrition - Bonnie Worthington-RobertsExercise - Cheryl A CahillFertility Control - Joellen HawkinsMental Health - Anne Hopkins FishelWomen in the Workplace - Bonnie RogersChoices in Childbearing - Betty HarrisPART FOURViolence against Women - Jacquelyn C Campbell and Karen LandenburgerHigh-Risk Childbearing - Catherine Ingram Fogel and Lynne Porter LewallenUnwanted Pregnancy - Dona LethbridgeSexuality in Women¿s Lives - Linda BernardDrug Abuse Problems among Women - Chris VourakisCommon Symptoms - Catherine Ingram Fogel Bleeding, Pain and DischargeSexually Transmitted Diseases - Catherine Ingram FogelInfertility - Catherine GarnerReproductive Surgery - Deitra LowdermilkChronic Illnesses and Women - Janet PrimomoProblems of the Breast - Barbara Nettles-CarlsonReproductive Technology - Margarete Sandelowski