Current women's health reports
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Approximately 50% of all pregnant women experience back pain during pregnancy. The causes and risk factors associated with the back pain encountered during pregnancy continue to be evaluated. The key to evaluating and managing these patients is the history and physical examination. Recognizing characteristics of the frequently encountered back pain of pregnancy as well as uncommon sources of back pain during pregnancy is essential in establishing an accurate diagnosis and initiating prompt and effective management.
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Curr Womens Health Rep · Dec 2002
ReviewAnesthesia for office endometrial procedures: a review of the literature.
Providing anesthesia for office endometrial procedures is a clinical challenge. The available techniques include the traditional paracervical block, the deep paracervical block, intrauterine lidocaine, topical spray lignocaine, and conscious sedation. Each offers some benefit in providing anesthesia during these procedures and can contribute to a more comfortable experience for the patient.
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It is important for healthcare providers to have a clear understanding of sexual orientation and other components of sexual identity (genetic gender, anatomic gender, gender identity, gender role, and sexual behavior). Knowledge of how a lesbian identity is formed will aide providers in guiding these girls through adolescence. Societal stigma often forces isolation that leads to many risky behaviors that affect health (alcohol and drug use; risky sexual behaviors; truancy and dropping out; running away and homelessness; and depression and suicide). Health providers need to ensure a safe and understanding environment for these girls, to enhance their physical, emotional, and social development to healthy adulthood.
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Curr Womens Health Rep · Jun 2002
ReviewGraduate education in women's health care: where have all the young men gone?
The trend toward female gender-dominance in women's health care carries enormous implications for the specialty, patients, and the practice of medicine as a whole. It is unclear what "gates," if any, should be created/maintained to control gender dominance, but it is certain that a continued shift in specialty constituency will change the way health care is provided to women. It is doubtful that even the most thorough prognosticators will be able to identify these changes prospectively, but several concerns arise regarding the security of the specialty when current literature is reviewed.
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Curr Womens Health Rep · Jun 2002
Psychological well-being of working women: a cross-cultural perspective.
Although the literature on the relationship between work and the family has grown substantially over the past 20 years, it is based primarily on studies conducted with white, middle-class workers. Thus, it is questionable whether findings can be generalized to nonwhite populations. This paper addresses the situation by utilizing a diverse sample. ⋯ However, there were distinct differences between minority and white workers in their reports of workplace and family experiences, and in coping strategies. The most distinct findings were a difference between the two groups in their perceptions of work as a "choice" (white workers) versus an "obligation" (minority workers), and a dichotomous model of work-family interactions among minority workers in which they compartmentalized their work and family lives. These results have implications for workplace policies and procedures, and point to the necessity of including the perspectives of minority subjects in future work-family research.