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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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