Issues covered include: women's comparative lack of access to medical care throughout the life-cycle: mental health: why infectious diseases are a gender issue: the role of older women in health promotion: gender-sensitive monitoring and impact assessment of health projects: and womens gender-specific needs to birth control and prevent exposure to sexually-transmitted disease, including HIV/AIDS.
This book is a comprehensive resource on violence-against-women issues, written by policy makers as well as advocates and researchers. The book is divided in four parts. Part 1: Theoretical and methodological issues in researching violence against women. Part 2: Types of violence against women. Part 3: Prevention and direct intervention. Part 4: Continuing and emerging issues.