Women's roles

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Transportation and Minority Womens Employment: Insights from New York

Uterine leiomyoma: understanding the impact of symptoms on womens’ lives

BACKGROUND Most women report negative experience about the symptoms of uterine leiomyoma (UL) in their lives, such as abnormal uterine bleeding and pelvic pain. Many studies have been conducted about efficacy of UL treatment, but little research has been performed about womens health related quality of life (HRQL). METHODS This is a semi-structured, descriptive, observational, qualitative stu...