Gender, Women's Health Care Concerns and Other Social Factors in Health and Health Care
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Part 1: Introduction to VolumeGender, Women and Other Social Factors in Health and Health Care; Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld Part 2: Gender and Cancer Related Issues 1. Growth from Trauma: Gender Differences in Experience of Cancer and Long-Term Survivorship; Karen Powroznik, Irena Stepanikova and Karen S. Cook 2. Younger Women with Breast Cancer and Treatment Decision Making: Rethinking Patient Involvement and Empowerment; Karrie Ann Snyder, Alexander Tate and Ethan Roubenoff 3. Role of Cancer History and Gender in Major Health Insurance Transitions: A Longitudinal Nationally Representative Study; Katherine S. Virgo, Chun Chieh Lin, Amy Davidoff, Gery P. Guy Jr, Janet S. de Moor, Donatus U. Ekwueme, Erin E. Kent, Neetu Chawla and K. Robin Yabroff Part 3: Pregnancy and Childbirth 4. Dignity in Childbirth: U.S. Women’s Perception of Respect and Autonomy in Hospital Births; Jessica Liddell and Katherine M. Johnson 5. Relationship Matters: An Examination of Educational and Racial Disparities in Unintended Pregnancies; Andrea Bertotti Part 4: Use of Health Care and Gender 6. The Impact of Gender in the Decision Making Process to Undergo Certain Surgeries Compared to Uncertain Surgeries; DaJuan Ferrell 7. Trust in Health Care: Understanding the Role of Gender and Racial Differences Between Patients and Providers; Celeste Campos-Castillo 8. Weight Loss Surgery Patients’ Gender Differentiated Experience of Vanity Stigma; Patricia Drew 9. Are there Gender Differences in the Capability to Use Facilities of Care? A Multilevel Analysis of 22 Countries; Rania Fuadovna Valeeva and Piet Bracke Part 5: Gender Issues Outside of the US and Europe 10. Gender Differences in Health Care Utilization Among Older Adults in Barbados; Nekehia T. Quashie 11. Burundian Female Survivors of War (SOW): Views of Health Before, During and Post Conflict; Jenelle R Walker, Jeanne Nizigiyimana, Oluwasola Banke-Thomas, Eric Niragira, Yvette Nijimbere, and Crista Johnson-Agbakwu Part 6: Other Gender Topics 12. Health and Gender: Quantifying the Unquantifiable; L.F. Carver 13. Handled Without Care: Women’s Health Experience in Jail; Laura McKendy
Sociologists and other researchers specializing in women's health and welfare present their findings on issues related to gender and cancer, pregnancy and childbirth, the use of health care and gender, gender issues outside of the US and Europe, and other gender topics. Their topics include younger women with breast cancer and treatment decision-making: rethinking patient involvement and empowerment, relationship matters: an examination of educational and racial disparities in unintended pregnancy, weight loss surgery patients: gender-differentiated experiences of vanity stigma, gender differences in health care utilization among older adults in Barbados, and handling without care: women's health experiences in jail.