tailieunhanh - Encyclopedia of Women’s Health

This chapter provides a brief overview of the history of women’s health and the array of factors that have played a central role in shaping it. First, it presents a background describing gender-based disparities in health care. It then discusses the cultural context in which women have been perceived by society, their representation in the health care workforce, and the development of the medical specialty of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), as well as social, economic, and political forces that have shaped the medical care provided to women | Encyclopedia of Women s Health Encyclopedia of Women s Health Edited by Sana Loue JD PhD MPH Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland Ohio and Martha Sajatovic MD University Hospitals of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland Ohio Core Editors Keith B. Armitage MD University Hospitals of Cleveland Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland Ohio Deanna Dahl-Grove MD Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital Cleveland Ohio Siran M. Koroukian PhD Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland Ohio Merrill S. Lewen MD Huntington Memorial Hospital Pasadena California Linda S. Lloyd DrPH Alliance Healthcare Foundation San Diego California Margaret L. MacKenzie MD Cleveland Clinic Foundation Willoughby Hills Ohio Angela Pattatucci Aragon PhD Graduate School of Public Health University of Puerto Rico San Juan Puerto Rico Alicia M. Weissman MD Crystal Run Healthcare Middletown New York Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers New York Boston Dordrecht London .