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Women’s Health

Encyclopedia of

Women’s Health Edited by

Sana Loue, JD, PhD, MPH Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, Ohio

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Martha Sajatovic, MD University Hospitals of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, Ohio

Core Editors Keith B. Armitage, MD

Linda S. Lloyd, DrPH

University Hospitals of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, Ohio

Alliance Healthcare Foundation San Diego, California

Deanna Dahl-Grove, MD

Margaret L. MacKenzie, MD

Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Clinic Foundation Willoughby Hills, Ohio

Siran M. Koroukian, PhD

Angela Pattatucci Aragon, PhD

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, Ohio

Graduate School of Public Health University of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico

Merrill S. Lewen, MD

Alicia M. Weissman, MD

Huntington Memorial Hospital Pasadena, California

Crystal Run Healthcare Middletown, New York

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers New York

Boston

Dordrecht

London

Moscow

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Encyclopedia of women’s health / edited by Sana Loue and Martha Sajatovic. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-306-48073-5 1. Women—Health and hygiene—Encyclopedias. 2. Women—Diseases—Encyclopedias. I. Loue, Sana. II. Sajatovic, Martha. RA778.E5825 2004 613⬘.04244—dc22

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ISBN 0-306-48073-5

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Preface

The field of “women’s health” is not a solitary discipline. Women’s health consists, instead, of knowledge and expertise of professionals in many disciplines who work together to improve women’s health status. Accordingly, the Encyclopedia of Women’s Health brings together the knowledge and experience of professionals from a wide range of fields including medicine, law, psychology, social work, demography, education, epidemiology, dentistry, cosmetology, massage, nutrition, physical fitness, history, and many others. This broad foundation allows us to explore women’s health from a biopsychosocial perspective, and to consider the many facets of women’s health and the many factors that impact women’s health status. This text is inten

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