Health Care for Older Women

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

Av Julie George, Shah Ebrahim, Joint Medical Colleges of St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals) George, Julie (Co-ordinator, Women's Health Care Research Unit, Co-ordinator, Women's Health Care Research Unit, The Royal London Hospital (Mile End)) Ebrahim, Shah (Professor, Department of Health Care for the Elderly, Professor, Department of Health Care for the Elderly, Joint Medical Colleges of St Bartholomews and the Royal London Hospitals The Bancroft Unit

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This book covers current controversies in women's health care. It takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the subject. With topics ranging from the controversies in breast and cervical cancer screening, through osteoporosis and the menopause, to the relationships of older women with their doctors, it provides a well-rounded view of health care for older women. Each chapter has been written by an authority in that field and includes issues of current debate.The book is suitable both for students new to the area and for specialists wishing to read about the work of others in related fields, as well as being a useful source of information for general practitioners about the provision of women's health care from a primary care perspective.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1992-02-20
Mått149 x 222 x 22 mm
Vikt488 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780192620682

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Emily Grundy: Women and ageing: demographic aspects; Dee Jones: Informal care and community care; Ann Bowling & Juliet Formby: Everyday life in institutional care; Wendy Savage: Gynaecology in older women; Astrid Fletcher: Controversies in screening for breast and cervical cancer; Dorothy Mandelstam: Incontinence and the older woman; Jean Ginsburg: The menopause; Roger Smith: Osteoporosis; Wendy Greengross: Women, sex, and ageing; Charles Freer: Older widows and couples in contemporary society; Howard Cattell & Greg Wilkinson: Depressed mood in older women; Gerald Bennett: Elder abuse; Shah Ebrahim: Health of elderly Asian women; Moyra Sidell: The relationship of elderly women to their doctors; Allin Coleman: Pre-retirement education and the role of the GP; Jane Tilston & Jude Williams: "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die." Screening women over 75: a health promotion approach; Adrianne Hardman: Exercise and older women; Margaret Baltes & M. Reichert: Successful ageing: the product of biological factors, environmental quality, and behavioural competence.