Women's Health Services
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Monday, November 23, 2009

[Out-of-pocket health care expenditures among population groups in Iceland]

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Out-of-pocket health expenditures affect access to health care. The study investigated trends in these expenditures, and whether certain population groups spent more than others. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The data come from two national ... Read more...

Methodological challenges in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards: findings from a pilot patient preference RCT.

29 Sep 2009 There are several methodological difficulties to address when evaluating acute psychiatric services. This study explored potential methods in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards in a pilot patient ... Read more...

Expanding the public health research agenda for ovarian cancer.

30 Aug 2009 Since the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has undertaken an active public health research agenda in ovarian cancer, focused mainly on research related to earlier recognition of symptoms, methods for earlier diagnosis, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Women's Health Services'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Out-of-pocket health care expenditures among population groups in Iceland] 29 Sep 2009
• Methodological challenges in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards: findings from a pilot patient preference RCT. 29 Sep 2009
• Expanding the public health research agenda for ovarian cancer. 30 Aug 2009
• Errors on which doctors in Nigeria need to be educated about. 30 Aug 2009
• APN knowledge, self-efficacy, and practices in providing women's healthcare services to women with disabilities. 30 Aug 2009
• Receipt of routine gynecological examinations among sexually active female college students in the United States. 30 Jul 2009
• The impact of emotional and material social support on women's drug treatment completion. 30 Jul 2009
• The millennium development goals and providers of women's health care: opportunity and action. 30 Jul 2009
• Uganda to reintroduce female condoms. 16 Jul 2009
• What is "women-focused" treatment for substance use disorders? 29 Jun 2009
• Embodied work: insider perspectives on the work of HIV/AIDS peer counselors. 29 Jun 2009
• Women living with HIV and AIDS: right to prevention, treatment, and health care. 16 Jun 2009
• Migration and women's health. 16 Jun 2009
• The role of parliamentarians in promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights. 14 Jun 2009
• Rights to safe motherhood and newborn health: ethical issues. 14 Jun 2009
• Women's health in prison: urgent need for improvement in gender equity and social justice. 30 May 2009
• Epistemological questions. 30 May 2009
• Setting a national minimum standard for health benefits: how do state benefit mandates compare with benefits in large-group plans? 30 May 2009
• The Well Woman Program: a community-based randomized trial to prevent sexually transmitted infections in low-income African American women. 30 May 2009
• The postconventional body: retheorising women's health. 28 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Women's Health Services'

Definition: Organized services to provide health care to women. It excludes maternal care services for which MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES is available.

Descriptor UI: D014932

Alternative terms: Women's Health Services; Women Health Services; Health Services, Woman's; Health Service, Woman's; Health Services, Woman; Health Services, Womans; Service, Woman's Health; Woman's Health Service; Woman's Health Services; Woman Health Services; Health Services, Women's; Health Services, Women; Services, Women's Health; Health Service, Women's; Service, Women's Health; Services, Women Health; Services, Womens Health; Women's Health Service; Services, Woman's Health; Services, Woman Health; Services, Womans Health;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.421.920;

History Note: 89(88); was see under HEALTH SERVICES 1988

Technical Notes: does not include maternal care services: index under MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; check also tags HUMANS and FEMALE; DF: WOMENS HEALTH SERV