Women's Health: A Guide to Health Promotion and Disorder Management

By Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

This handbook equips nurses with the knowledge they need to provide comprehensive, current, evidence-based care to women at all stages of life. Part I focuses on health promotion and illness prevention, including smoking cessation, stress reduction, fitness, nutrition, and prevention of violence and abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and other lifestyle-related disorders. Part II, organised alphabetically, covers diseases and disordersuboth those that affect only women and those that pose unique issues in women. Icons highlight cutting-edge research, alternative and complementary therapies, prevention strategies, concerns of women with disabilities, and needs of special populations. An appendix lists noteworthy women's health Websites

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582552827
• ISBN13: 9781582552828
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Lippincott Raven
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.9"