Handbook of Women's Health: An Evidence-Based Approach

✍ Scribed by Jo Ann Rosenfeld

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 628
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This practical handbook provides a clear and comprehensive evidence-based primary-care guide to the care of women patients in ambulatory practice, intended for general and family practitioners, nurses, physicians' assistants and all who practice primary care of women. It emphasizes preventive care and well-woman care throughout the lifecycle of a woman, including sexuality, contraception, medical care in pregnancy, psychological and important medical concerns. It stresses the strength of evidence underlying common practices of care of women. Hb ISBN (2001): 0-521-78833-1

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
Common abbreviations......Page 12
Normal blood values in women and during pregnancy......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1 Singular health care of women......Page 17
Preventive care......Page 28
2 Preventive care of adolescents......Page 30
3 Preventive care of adults......Page 40
4 Preventive care for older adults......Page 57
5 Cigarette smoking and cessation......Page 87
6 Nutrition......Page 99
7 Exercise......Page 108
Psychosocial health......Page 124
8 Psychosocial health of well women through the life cycle......Page 126
Sexuality......Page 144
9 Sexuality and sexual dysfunction through the life cycle......Page 146
10 Contraception......Page 168
11 Infertility and adoption......Page 199
12 Special issues with lesbian patients......Page 212
13 Medical care in pregnancy......Page 221
Genitourinary medicine......Page 248
14 Menstrual disorders......Page 250
15 Sexually transmitted diseases......Page 269
16 Vaginitis......Page 296
17 Chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and dyspareunia......Page 307
18 The Papanicolaou smear and cervical cancer......Page 321
19 Endometrial cancer and postmenopausal bleeding......Page 341
20 Ovarian cancer and ovarian masses......Page 348
21 Urinary incontinence and infections......Page 356
Breast disorders......Page 380
22 Benign breast disorders......Page 382
23 Breast cancer screening......Page 398
Psychological disorders......Page 414
24 Woman battering......Page 416
25 Rape and the consequences of sexual assault......Page 437
26 Depression and premenstrual syndrome......Page 452
27 Addiction......Page 473
28 Eating disorders......Page 486
Common medical problems......Page 496
29 Coronary heart disease......Page 498
30 Diabetes mellitus type II......Page 523
31 Thyroid disorders......Page 544
32 Hypertension and stroke......Page 560
33 Osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis......Page 584
Index......Page 610