HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN

Health Care For Women

Health Care For Women

Concept # 1

Women make up more than half of the US population, but it is only recently that their political, economic, and health situations have been closely examined. Historically, women's health had always been perceived in the context of reproduction, i.e. a woman's role in producing and rearing children. (Blackwell, 2002)With this increased concern about women's health has come a shift in the perception of the field to encompass other aspects of a woman's life above and beyond her child-bearing years. As the field of women's health care continues ...