Women's Health Psychology

About this book

Womens Health Psychology is the first comprehensive collection ever published to consider the developmental reproductive and sociocultural contexts of health decision-making and behavior for women. It provides current expert advice to help policy makers researchers and clinicians make the best decisions concerning topics including: The Context of Womens Health: history of womens healthcare employment and womens health and the effects of intimate partner violence Health Challenges: smoking alcohol eating disorders and sleep Reproductive Health: premenstrual dysphoric disorder the stress of infertility psychiatric symptoms and pregnancy and menopause Disability and Chronic Conditions: womens responses to disability experiencing cancer the psychology of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and rheumatic heart and Alzheimers diseases