Women
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Cervical cancer: disease prevention and informational support.

29 Nov 2009 Cervical cancer and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) are significant health care concerns for women worldwide. Globally, in 2006, cervical cancer remains the second most common cancer in women. Infection with high-risk strains of HPV is found to be ... Read more...

Examining the social context in the caregiving experience: correlates of global self-esteem among adult daughter caregivers to an older parent with cancer.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations between various patient, disease, situation, and caregiver characteristics (organized by five conceptual domains) and global self-esteem among caregiver daughters to parents with cancer. METHOD: Dyads comprised ... Read more...

Male involvement in family planning: women's perception.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVES: To assess the knowledge of mothers of under-five children brought to immunisation centres of contraceptive methods applicable by males and their perceptions of the roles of males in family planning. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Women'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Cervical cancer: disease prevention and informational support. 29 Nov 2009
• Women in medical microbiology: reflections on contributions. 29 Sep 2009
• Examining the social context in the caregiving experience: correlates of global self-esteem among adult daughter caregivers to an older parent with cancer. 29 Sep 2009
• Correction of organization's name. 13 Sep 2009
• Male involvement in family planning: women's perception. 30 Aug 2009
• The effects of 16-week group exercise program on physical function and mental health of elderly Korean women in long-term assisted living facility. 30 Aug 2009
• Longing for reconciliation: a challenge for women with borderline personality disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Self-reported history of sexual coercion and rape negatively impacts resilience to suicide among women students. 30 Aug 2009
• Development and validation of the eating stimulus index in low-income, minority women in early postpartum. 30 Aug 2009
• Women's awareness of ovarian cancer risks and symptoms. 30 Aug 2009
• Women, take control of your bodies! 30 Aug 2009
• Global women's health: a spotlight on caregiving. 30 Aug 2009
• The deepest dive: how far down can a free diver go? 22 Aug 2009
• Sleep disturbance experiences among perimenopausal women in Taiwan. 30 Jul 2009
• Exploring differences between community-based women and men with a history of mental illness. 30 Jul 2009
• Studying narrative-in-action in women with chronic rheumatic conditions. 30 Jul 2009
• Making sense of living under the shadow of death: adjusting to a recurrent breast cancer illness. 30 Jul 2009
• Under-representation of women and ethnic minorities in vascular surgery randomized controlled trials. 30 Jul 2009
• Infertility, medical advice and treatment with fertility hormones and/or in vitro fertilisation: a population perspective from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. 30 Jul 2009
• An offer you can't refuse? Ethical implications of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Women'

Definition: Human adult females as cultural, psychological, sociological, political, and economic entities.

Descriptor UI: D014930

Alternative terms: Women; Woman; Women's Groups; Group, Women's; Groups, Women's; Women Groups; Women's Group;

Allowable Qualifiers: education; history; psychology;

Tree Number: M01.975;

Technical Notes: for women only as a cultural, social, sociological, political, economic force; distinguish from the check tag FEMALE; when indexing WOMEN, check the tags HUMANS & FEMALE; Manual 18.9.6, 34.12