| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color), color map |
| Contents |
Section 1: Factors influencing women's health care. Evolution of women's health care and research -- Culturally sensitive and equitable patient-centered care -- Social determinants of health -- Medication use and complementary health approaches -- Ethical decision-making -- Section 2: Menstrual and ovarian conditions. Premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder -- Menstruation-related disorders -- Endometriosis -- Polycystic ovary syndrome -- Menopause -- Section 3: Reproductive and contraception care. Infertility -- Pregnancy planning -- Family planning and nonhormonal contraception -- Hormonal and emergency contraception -- Pregnancy termination -- Section 4: Pregnancy health care. Principles of medication therapy in pregnancy and lactation -- Prenatal diagnosis -- Conditions associated with pregnancy -- Pregnancy and preexisting illness -- High-risk pregnancies -- Preterm labor, labor, and delivery -- Postpartum care -- Section 5: Select topics: sex gender differences. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics -- Sexual health and function -- Genitourinary issues -- Gender-affirming care -- Cardiovascular diseases -- Autoimmune, bone, joint, and gastrointestinal disorders -- Section 6: Neurology and mental wellness: sex gender differences. Neurological disorders -- Mental health disorders -- Eating disorders -- Substance use disorders (SUDs) -- Section 7: Cancer in women. Breast cancer -- Endometrial cancer -- Ovarian cancer -- Cervical cancer -- Management of treatment complications |
| Summary |
Women’s Health Across the Lifespan: A Pharmacotherapeutic Approach serves as a comprehensive reference on sex and gender influences on medication response and presents the newest pharmacologic technologies to advance women’s health. This third edition of Women’s Health Across the Lifespan: A Pharmacotherapeutic Approach advances the conversation by providing physicians, pharmacists, nurses, students, and other health practitioners with an expansive review of health conditions disproportionately affecting women throughout life. It also presents recent advances in pharmacotherapeutic approaches to reproductive health, mental health, and reproductive cancers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (AccessMedicine, viewed January 19, 2024) |
| Subject |
Women's health services.
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Women -- Diseases -- Chemotherapy
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Chemotherapy.
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Sex factors in disease.
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Women's Health
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Delivery of Health Care -- methods
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Drug Therapy
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Sex Factors
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Connell, Mary Beth, editor.
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Smith, Judith A. PharmD, editor.
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Borgelt, Laura Marie, editor.
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