Essays on Women's Health

Things Essential For Women`s Health As women we are always trying to find a good balance between the demands of our family and work which often leads to neglecting to nutritional needs allowing them to be put on the back burner. Your probably like me...

Mental Illnesses in women have only recently been accepted and understood. In the mid 1800s, women with any form of mental disease were diagnosed with “hysteria” or “neurasthenia,” isolated from her family and her normal life, and submitted to cruel and unusual treatment. Charlotte Perkins...

At the point when the word abortion is heard, it is constantly connected with many negative things, such as murder and inhumanity. However not authorizing abortion makes a large issue for woman not only here in the Philippines but around the world. Having a child...

Women should have the control over their own body to protect themselves from any physical or mental harm. Many women endanger their lives for continuing the pregnancy or they are not ready for the change that the baby will make in their lives. This research...

"Your outlook having a sense of optimism and purpose seems to be predictive of health outcomes," says Dr. Laura Kubzansky, professor of social and behavioral sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our health completely depends on our state of health. Each emotion...

An Introduction to Female Genital Mutilation Female genital mutilation also called the circumcision of the Female genital cutting or the semi or complete removal of the external female genitalia or even injuring the female genital organs for non-medical, cultural or some fanatical religious reasons. Even...

Women are biologically more likely to become infected than men if exposed to a sexually transmitted pathogen. Many STIs are transmitted more easily from man to woman than from woman to man. For example, the risk to a woman of getting Gonorrhoea from a single...

Depo-Provera is a brand name for Medroxyprogesterone acetate, a female contraceptive injection that contains progestin hormone. Ideally called the injection or DP, it was approved in 1992 by the Federal Drug Administration as a type of contraception (Shoup, 2012). The progesterone in the infusion is...

Although menopause is not a disease, however, there are many drugs available for the treatment of such symptoms. Many women are uncomfortable with the risks and side effects associated with these drugs. Fortunately, there are a lot of natural remedies that can be used to...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex endocrine metabolic disorder that affects how a woman`s ovaries work. It primarily involves ovarian hyperandrogenism and linked with insulin resistance. (Minerva Pediatrica, 2010) Associated with polycystic ovaries, menstrual dysfunction, anovulation, ovulatory dysfunction and other metabolic disturbances. Also known...

Urinary Incontinence (UI) is defined as accidently leaking of urine at an inappropriate time and in an inappropriate place and is associated with reduced quality of life for older adults. It is common in aging women and it is not surprising to consider that UI...

The functioning of the thyroid gland is significantly altered by pregnancy. The production of thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3), increase almost one and half times in pregnancy. In healthy women, these changes take place seamlessly as a part of the normal physiology of pregnancy but...

What is it like when becoming a mother? This is a difficult question to answer because it depends on the person who is going through it. Being a mother can be a joyful but stressful as in same time. However, it is life changing. Many...

The increasing incidence of caesarean sections and maternal age globally predisposed more to the incidence of placenta praevia in the obstetric population (Ikechebelu & Onwusulu, 2007). Uncomplicated cases of placenta previa should be delivered by elective cesarean section between 36 and 37 weeks. Reported risk...

Many women have an experience that wish to transform to ideal looks and become popular in the community. In general, women have tendency to pay attention their looks and mostly women have body dissatisfaction differently. For improving this dissatisfaction, having cosmetic surgery is very popular...

Introduction In this essay I will discuss David’s argument on the distinction between Female Genital Mutilation and Female Genital Operation. I will be considering the politics of naming as well as the importance of cultural relativism. Further I will discuss Foucault’s argument on biopower to...

Imagine standing next to a camp fire and not having the sensory input to tell you, “Hey, we are too close to this heating source” because it was removed from you at a young age as a result of a decision made by your parents....

The topic I have chosen is “Cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome and health behaviours of postmenopausal women working in agriculture”. The aim of this study was “to examine the impact of occurrence of cardiovascular diseases and metabolic syndrome on the frequency of the health behaviours in...

The research conducted by Tahir et al did not show conclusive evidence that telephone lactation counselling was effective at improving lactation rates at the fourth and sixth months postpartum. 1 However, there have been many studies and meta-analyses published in relation to lactation counselling and...

The gutwrenching phrase, “female genital mutilation,” is mostly unheard of in the United States. However, many countries and cultures worldwide are very familiar with the term. Female genital mutilation refers to the partial or total removal of the external genitalia of young women and girls....

Introduction Female genital mutilation (FGM) is also known as female genital cutting or female circumcision. Particularly, it is an action which individuals remove some part or all of the external female genitalia. As this practice is being common in the West African developing countries such...