摘要:

Female circumcision is the best kept secret in today's Africa. One can travel even with the credentials of a journalist without ever learning any of the facts that are described here. Female circumcision, which everyone you ask will tell you "does not exist here"-or "perhaps it is still practiced in a few remote areas"-according to a conservative estimate, affects the health and blights the lives of upwards of 20-25 million women in Africa today. Of course, nowhere do any records exist. Not even immediate fatalities of the operations are ever registered. By not keeping any records, health departments can claim that these practices do not exist.

ISSN:0363-0242    

DOI:10.1300/J013v01n06_01

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1975

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Cardiovascular disease is generally seen as primarily a male problem. Yet heart disease is the number one killer not only of men but of women; even in the 25-44 age range, it is second only to cancer in all forms as a killer of women There are many measures which women can take, on their own or with the help of their doctors, to alter or eliminate such risk factors as obesity, hypertension, excessive cholesterol intake, and smoking. But unless cardiovascular disease is recognized as a major women's health problem, we will be able to deal with it effectively.

ISSN:0363-0242    

DOI:10.1300/J013v01n06_02

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1975

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

No abstract available for this article.

ISSN:0363-0242    

DOI:10.1300/J013v01n06_03

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1975

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Although delivering babies was woman's work from earliest times, it has become an occupation dominated by a male-oriented medical profession in modern times. In the United States it has been monopolized by male obstetricians. As the change occurred historically, childbirth was redefined as a medical rather than a social event, and the roles and care surrounding it were reorganized to suit medical needs. The following cultural factors contributed to these changes: industrialization, urbanization, the building of hospitals, the development of scientific knowledge and medical technology, ratios of physicians to population, and the political power of medical associations.

ISSN:0363-0242    

DOI:10.1300/J013v01n06_04

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1975

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Su Clinica Familiar in Willacy County, Texas established a nurse-midwifery service in 1972 that has expanded to the point of doing the majority of the deliveries in that county. High quality of care of infants and mothers has resulted from a prenatal program which places great emphasis on nutritional counseling and supplementation coupled with careful observance of a pregnant woman's condition, delivery in a clinic facility without the traditional restraints on the mother and family, and a 24-hour post-partum clinic stay followed by two home visits to ensure the health maintenance of mother and infant.

ISSN:0363-0242    

DOI:10.1300/J013v01n06_05

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1975

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

No abstract available for this article.

ISSN:0363-0242    

DOI:10.1300/J013v01n06_06

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1975

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

No abstract available for this article.

ISSN:0363-0242    

DOI:10.1300/J013v01n06_07

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1975

数据来源: Taylor