Women's Global Health and Human Rights

Women's Global Health and Human Rights serves as an overview of the challenges faced by women in different regions of the world. Ideal as a tool for both professionals and students, this book discusses the similarities and differences in health and human rights challenges that are faced by women globally. Best practices and success stories are also included in this timely and important text. Major Topics include:„X Globalization„X Gender Based Terrorism and Violence„X Cultural Practices„X Health Problems„X Progress and Challenges

SectionSection I Introduction
ChapterChapter 1. Global Women's Health and Human Rights
SectionSection II Impact of Gender-Based Violence, Conflict, Discrimination, Terrorism, Environmental Factors and Transnational Trafficking on Women and the
ChapterChapter 2. Violence Against Women and the Girl-Child: A Silent Global Pandemic
ChapterChapter 3. Impact and Effects of Terrorism on Women and the Girl-Child
ChapterChapter 4. War, Women, and Girls
ChapterChapter 5. Women and Children in War and Complex Emergencies: Human Rights, the Humanitarian Endeavor, and Progress Towards Equality
ChapterChapter 6. Human Trafficking: A Modern Plague
ChapterChapter 7. Shadows on the Sunshine of Women's Global Health and Human Rights: the Global Gag Rule, Tuskegee and HIV Studies, Tobacco Marketing, Tortur
ChapterChapter 8. Going Negative: How Reproductive Rights Discourse Has Been Altered from a Positive to a Negative Rights Framework in Support of "Women's Ri
SectionSection III Women, Economics, and Human Rights
ChapterChapter 9. More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing
ChapterChapter 10. Globalization, Development, and Health: A Political-Economic Perspective on the Global Struggle for Health
SectionSection IV Health: Problems and Challenges Specific to Women, Including Chronic Diseases and Their Global Burden
ChapterChapter 11. The AIDS Pandemic and Women's Rights
ChapterChapter 12. Poor, Black, and Female: The Growing Face of AIDS in the United States
ChapterChapter 13. Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Risk Factors and Risk Reduction
ChapterChapter 14. The Global Scourge of the 21st Century-Diabetes-and Worse for Women
ChapterChapter 15. Neurological Disorders in Women
ChapterChapter 16. Women's Musculoskeletal Health
ChapterChapter 17. Sexual and Reproductive Health: Women's Health Is Society's Wealth
ChapterChapter 18. The Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease on the Girl-Child
ChapterChapter 19. Breast Cancer in Women: A Public Health Perspective
ChapterChapter 20. Cervical Cancer Mortality: A Preventable Tragedy
ChapterChapter 21. Maternal Mortality: The Eye of the Storm
ChapterChapter 22. Ensuring a Woman's Right to Survive Childbirth: Preventing Mortality from Postpartum Hemorrhage
ChapterChapter 23. Infertility in Developing Countries: Scope, Psychosocial Burden, and the Need for Action
ChapterChapter 24. Vaccines and Women: Cultural and Structural Issues for Acceptability
ChapterChapter 25. Infectious Diseases and Women's Human Rights
ChapterChapter 26. Women and Disability
ChapterChapter 27. Women with Disabilities in Education: The United States and the Americans with Disabilities Act
ChapterChapter 28. Blindness and Social Stigma in Women and the Girl-Child
ChapterChapter 29. Older Women's Access to Health and Human Rights
ChapterChapter 30. Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
SectionSection V Effects of Cultural Practices, Environment, and Migration on Women and the Girl-Child
ChapterChapter 31. Breastfeeding: A Biological, Ecological, and Human Rights Imperative for Global Health
ChapterChapter 32. Gender Equality Is Not Just a Women's Issue, But a Development and a Human Rights Issue
ChapterChapter 33. Water and Sanitation
ChapterChapter 34. Society, Exercise, and Women
ChapterChapter 35. A Woman's Sexuality
ChapterChapter 36. FGM-The Clinician's Perspective
ChapterChapter 37. Practice and Problems in Occupational Health for Women
SectionSection VI Challenges and Progress
ChapterChapter 38. Women's Engagement Essential to Building the Culture of Peace
ChapterChapter 39. Women's Health in a Multicultural World: Challenges and Progress in Africa
ChapterChapter 40. Being a Woman in Rural India
ChapterChapter 41. From Alma-Ata to Millennium Development Goals: Status of Women's Health in the 21st Century
SectionSection VII Conclusion
SectionChapter 42. Promoting a Human Rights-Based Approach to Women's Health