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Gender, women, and health in the Americas / editor, Elsa Gómez Gómez ; editorial committee, Rebecca de los Ríos ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Publicaciones científicas (Washington, D.C.) ; no. 541.
- Scientific publication ; no. 541
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Health and hygiene--America.
- Women.
- Women's health services--America.
- Women's health services.
- Women--Health and hygiene--America--Sociological aspects.
- Women's Health.
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Americas.
- Women's Health Services.
- America.
- Medical Subjects:
- Women's Health.
- Americas.
- Women's Health Services.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 280 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., U.S.A. : Pan American Health Organization, 1993.
- Contents:
- Gender, health, and development : an approach in the making / Rebecca de los Ríos
- A gender approach to health delivery systems : the Caribbean case / Peggy Antrobus
- Sex discrimination and excess female mortality in childhood / Elsa Gómez Gómez
- Adolescence : misunderstandings and hopes / María Helena Henriques-Mueller and João Yunes
- Maternal mortality : an overlooked tragedy / Germán Mora and João Yunes
- Discussion notes on the care and promotion of adult women's health in the Americas / Helena E. Restrepo
- Women and chronic disease in Latin America / Myriam B. Debert-Ribeiro
- Cancer epidemiology and control in women in Latin America and the Caribbean / Helena E. Restrepo
- Older women in the Americas : problems and potential / Lee Sennott-Miller
- Health and sexuality from a gender perspective / Stella Cerruti Basso
- Women and nutrition in the Americas : problems and perspectives / Miguel Gueri, Adeline W. Patterson, and Teresa González-Cossio
- Mental health of women in the Americas / Freda L. Paltiel
- Patterns of alcohol and psychoactive substance consumption and dependency in women / Enrique Madrigal
- Smoking among women in the Americas / Sylvia C. Robles
- Infectious diseases of women : tropical diseases and reproductive tract infections / Gabriel A. Schmunis
- Women and the AIDS epidemic : an impending crisis for the Americas / Ann Marie Kimball, Roxane Salvatierra González, and Fernando Zacarías
- The origins and control of domestic violence against women / Soledad Larrain and Teresa Rodríguez
- The use of technologies in the health care of women : a review of the literature / Gloria A. Coe and Ruth S. Hanft
- Feminine hygiene and infection : toxic shock syndrome in women / Gabriel A. Schmunis
- Assessing the new techniques for assisted reproduction : a gender perspective / Diana Serrano LaVertu and Ana María Linares Parada
- An analysis of the impact of Canadian health legislation on the well-being of women / Tara Toby Eines
- Characteristic treatment of violence against women in Latin American legislation / Mónica Bolis
- International law and women's health / Rebecca J. Cook
- Women and the health sector's labor market in the Americas : female hegemony? / María Helena Machado
- Women as primary support providers for the elderly : the case of Puerto Rico / Melba Sánchez-Ayéndez
- Women's health movement : a view of the decade / Ana María Portugal and María Isabel Matamala,
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9275115419
- OCLC:
- 29950162
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