Gender, Women's Health Care Concerns and Other Social Factors in Health and Health Care

Sociologists and other researchers specializing in women's health and welfare present their findings on issues related to gender and cancer, pregnancy and childbirth, the use of health care and gender, gender issues outside of the US and Europe, and other gender topics. Their topics include younger women with breast cancer and treatment decision-making: rethinking patient involvement and empowerment, relationship matters: an examination of educational and racial disparities in unintended pregnancy, weight loss surgery patients: gender-differentiated experiences of vanity stigma, gender differences in health care utilization among older adults in Barbados, and handling without care: women's health experiences in jail. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *