scholarly journals Investigation of Women’s Health on Wikipedia—A Temporal Analysis of Women’s Health Topic

Informatics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Yanyan Wang ◽  
Jin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Self Organizing Map ◽  
Subject Analysis ◽  
Women Health ◽  
Internal Characteristic ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Characteristic Evolution ◽  
N Gram

New health-related concepts, terms, and topics emerge, and the meanings of existing terms and topics keep changing. This study investigated and explored the evolutions of the women’s health topic on Wikipedia. The creation time, page views data, page edits data, and text of historical versions of 207 women-health-related entries from 2010 to 2017 on Wikipedia were collected. Coding, subject analysis, descriptive and inferential statistical analysis, and Self-Organizing Map and n-gram approaches were employed to explore the characteristics and evolutions of the entries for the women’s health topic. The results show that the number of the women-health-related entries kept increasing from 2010 to 2017, and nearly half of them were related to the supports and protection of women’s health. The total number of page views of the investigated items increased from 2011 to 2013, but it decreased from 2013 to 2017, while the total number of page edits stayed stable from 2010 to 2017. Growing subjects were found during the investigated period, such as abuse and violence, and family planning and reproduction. However, the entries related to the economy and politics were diminishing. There was no association between the internal characteristic evolution and the external popularity evolution of the women’s health topic.

Indigenous Women, Health, and Healthcare

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-44
Author(s):  
Charlotte Loppie ◽  
Alexandra Kent
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Spiritual Wellness ◽  
Women Health ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Sociocultural Contexts ◽  
Disproportionate Burden ◽  
Canadian Healthcare

For Indigenous women, gender intersects with cultural and racialized identities to create complex inequities in health and healthcare. The experience of Indigenous women within the Canadian healthcare context is explored using the Xpey’ Relational Environments Framework. Relational environments that shape Indigenous women’s wellness encompass human and non-human interactions, healthcare and community settings, and sociocultural contexts. By framing determinants of Indigenous women’s health in this way, the chapter demonstrates the layered complexity of risk as well as opportunities for healing. Indigenous women over the lifespan are shown to have a disproportionate burden of illnesses and comorbidities that are situated within the foundations of colonialism, racism, violence, and a range of socioeconomic inequities. Sources of strength and resilience that nurture the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness of Indigenous women are highlighted.

The Characteristics of Middle Aged Australian Women who Consult Acupuncturists

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sibbritt ◽  
Jon Adams ◽  
Anne F Young
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Quality Of Life Scale ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

Background Although an increase in the use of acupuncture in recent years has been identified, there are few studies that focus attention upon the characteristics of acupuncture users. This survey aimed at providing a first step towards addressing this significant research gap. Methods This study was conducted as part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, and examined the characteristics of acupuncture users among middle aged Australian women between 50 and 55 years old. Data were collected on demographic measures, health status and health service use. Results The paper reports on 11 202 middle aged women, surveyed in 2001. We estimate that 4.5% of middle aged women consult an acupuncturist. Women who consult an acupuncturist are less likely to be married or living in a de facto relationship, are more likely to have had a major personal illness in the previous year, to have suffered from a variety of symptoms or have significantly lower scores (ie poorer health) on all eight dimensions of the SF-36 health-related quality of life scale. Women who use acupuncture are also higher users of ‘conventional’ health services. Conclusion While the development of a research base and clinical applications for acupuncture are ongoing, health professionals should be aware that acupuncture is currently being used by large numbers of middle aged women. In addition, given the relatively higher prevalence of acupuncture use reported in our study, it is important that further research explores acupuncture use in more detail and the relationship between women's health issues and their use and experience of acupuncture.

Women, Health and the Sexual Division of Labor: A Case Study of the Women's Health Movement in Britain

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Doyal
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Women Health ◽  
Women's Health Movement ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Women’S Health Movement

The women's health movement in Britain can be divided into three main stages. During the first period, most activities took place outside the National Health Service (NHS) and the emphasis was on women as consumers of medical care. Feminists exposed the sexism inherent in most medical practice and stressed the need for women to gain control of reproductive technology. During the second phase, these priorities shifted toward a greater concern with the need to defend the NHS against reductions in resources and to oppose the increasing privatization of medical care. These campaigns involved women not only as users of medical services but also as health workers, thereby bringing the women's health movement into the wider political arena. They also led to the growth of a socialist feminist analysis of women's health issues and a recognition that feminist participation in health struggles is essential if the NHS is to be not merely defended but qualitatively changed to meet the real needs of consumers and workers. During the third (and current) stage of the women's health movement, feminists have moved beyond a concern with medical care alone toward the development of a socialist feminist epidemiology—toward the identification and eventual elimination of those aspects of contemporary society that make women sick.

Does gestational diabetes affect women's health-related quality of life after delivery?

2010 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arja Halkoaho ◽  
Marja Kavilo ◽  
Anna-Maija Pietilä ◽  
Hanna Huopio ◽  
Harri Sintonen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Gestational Diabetes ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related
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