Encyclopedia of Women's Health
Encyclopedia of Women's Health

Author: Sana Loue

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-07-15

Total Pages: 714

ISBN-13: 0306480735

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Designated a Reference Reviews Top Ten Print Reference Source 2005 The Encyclopedia of Women's Health meets this challenge by bringing together an impressive array of experts on topics from reproductive issues to gastrointestinal illnesses. This skilfully edited volume, informed by current health issues and health-care realities, offers readers practical information, historical aspects, and future directions, all meticulously researched and conveniently presented. Key features include: -Accessible A-to-Z coverage, including AIDS, birth control, hormone replacement therapy, teen pregnancy, sexual harassment, violence, body image, access to health care and more. -Entries spanning the medical, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and legal arenas. -Medical topics explored from both conventional and complementary perspectives. -Cross-cultural data illustrate issues as they apply to minority women, rural women, the elderly, and other underserved populations. -Special chapters on disparities in women's health and health care. -Historical overview of women in health - as patients and as professionals. -Suggested readings and resource lists.

What Difference Does a Husband Make?
What Difference Does a Husband Make?

Author: Elizabeth D. Heineman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-02

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0520239075

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"A pathbreaking book. Nothing else attempts the broad sweep or comprehensive vision that Heineman offers in this book."—Robert Moeller, author of Protecting Motherhood

Regional Mortality Differences in Germany
Regional Mortality Differences in Germany

Author: Eva U.B. Kibele

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9400744323

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Regional mortality differences are one dimension of health inequalities, but its trends and determinants in Germany are widely unknown. This book examines and illustrates patterns of regional mortality in Germany—with focus on small-area differentials—and their changes over time. It identifies explanatory factors at individual and regional level. Mortality differences between eastern and western Germany exist, but small-area mortality differentials are often greater. Though the main spatial mortality patterns remain, this study provides evidence that some distinct changes in the small-area mortality patterns in Germany—especially among women—occurred within a short period of time. Mortality inequalities at younger ages and in behavior-related causes as well as differences in socioeconomic conditions contribute strongly to regional mortality differences in Germany. The book shows that the complex interplay between individual- and regional-level mortality risk factors requires a multidimensional approach to reduce regional mortality inequalities.

Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2015
Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2015

Author: Mary Meghan Ryan

Publisher: Bernan Press

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1598887645

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The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics is recognized as an authoritative resource on the U.S. labor force. It continues and enhances the Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor Statistics. The seventeenth edition allows the user to understand recent developments as well as to compare today's economy with past history. The Handbook is a comprehensive reference providing an abundance of data on a variety of topics including: employment and unemployment; earnings; prices; productivity; consumer expenditures; occupational safety and health; union membership; international labor comparisons; and much more! Features of the publication In addition to over 225 tables that present practical data, the Handbook provides: introductory material for each chapter that contains highlights of salient data and figures that call attention to noteworthy trends in the data; notes and definitions, which contain concise descriptions of the data sources, concepts, definitions, and methodology from which the data are derived; references to more comprehensive reports which provide additional data and more extensive descriptions of estimation methods, sampling, and reliability measures. New in the 18th edition of Handbook of U.S Labor Statistics: A section on worker displacement in Chapter 1 as well as a new section on local area unemployment statistics in Chapter 7 Several new tables on occupational safety and health in Chapter 14 along with new information on employee benefits in Chapter 6 Figures on a variety of topics including productivity, labor-management relations, prices, and workplace fatalities