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.
Proefschrift medische wetenschappen KUN. Onderzoek naar het effect van mammografische screening van vrouwen van 65 jaar en ouder op het stadium van borstkanker bij diagnose en op de sterfte aan borstkanker. Met een samenvatting in het Nederlands.
Contributors place violence against women and girls within a variety of cultural and religious perspectives and also present theories of violence, the role of stereotyping, and the effect of violence in the larger community.
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.