BookTaraneh Shirazian, Erin Gertz, editor-in-chief.
Summary: In the increasingly globalized twenty-first century, cross-cultural communication and knowledge of culturally informed health practices are critical skills for women's health providers. Around the Globe for Women's Health is a concise, culturally sensitive, and clinically relevant guide that aims to increase health equity through prevention and improved clinical care for women around the world. Case-based chapters highlight clinical issues (such as obstetric fistula, malaria, and postpartum hemorrhage) and barriers to care (the unmet need for family planning, or limited radiotherapy in low-resource countries, for example). Around the Globe for Women's Health is a must-have resource not just for physicians considering working in another country, but all providers seeking to provide better care for diverse populations of women within the United States.
Contents:
1. Maternal mortality: the greatest health divide in the world
2. Postpartum hemorrhage in a conflict setting
3. Obstetric fistula
4. Diagnosis and treatment of malaria in pregnancy
5. The unmet need for family planning
6. Anesthesia in action ata global health site
7. At your cervix: preventing cervial cancer using a single-visit approach
8. The challenge of global cervical and breast cancer prevention, detection, and treatment
9. Radiation therapy: a privilege, not a right treatment of cervical cancer with limited radiotherapy in low-resource settings
10. Interested in volunteering abroad? Considerations when choosing a global health opportunity
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