Women and Health
Volume 1
- 3rd Edition - November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Rebecca Troisi, Kathryn Rexrode, Yvette Cozier, Marlene B. Goldman
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 5 5 2 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 5 5 3 - 7
Women and Health, Third Edition, Volume One offers a comprehensive exploration of health issues affecting women of all ages, from adolescence to maturity. Unlike other books tha… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWomen and Health, Third Edition, Volume One offers a comprehensive exploration of health issues affecting women of all ages, from adolescence to maturity. Unlike other books that focus solely on reproductive health, this volume adopts a truly international perspective, addressing a wide range of topics, including osteoporosis, breast cancer, other cancers, domestic violence, sexually transmitted diseases, occupational hazards, eating disorders, heart disease, chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and societal and behavioral influences. Additionally, the book delves into the health of mid-life and older women, emphasizing the impact of genetics, sex, and gender on health, offering valuable insights for clinicians and health research scientists.
- Provides a common language for epidemiologists, public health practitioners, and women’s health specialists to discuss the behavioral, cultural, and biological determinants of women’s health
- Covers gender-specific risks and features of one organ system’s diseases and how they affect the health of other organ systems
- Orients non-gerontologists on the importance of considering the entire lifecycle of women within research designs and treatment plans
Research scientists in many areas of women’s health, clinical practices that treat women of all ages, and public and academic libraries. Nurses, midwives, psychologists, and medical students
1. Introduction to Women's Health
2. Social Determinants of Health 2 Reproductive, Sexual and Postmenopausal Health
3. Reproductive, Sexual and Postmenopausal Health
4. Infection Diseases 3 Occupational and Environmental Determinants of Health
5. Occupational and Environmental Determinants of Health 4 Chronic Disease
6. Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiovascular Risk in Women
7. Cancer
8. Autoimmune and Immune Mediated Disorders. Multisystem Disease
9. Endocrinology and Metabolism
10. Behavioral Health and Psychiatric Disorders
11. Pain, Inflammation, Fatigue 5 Aging
12. Life course into Aging
2. Social Determinants of Health 2 Reproductive, Sexual and Postmenopausal Health
3. Reproductive, Sexual and Postmenopausal Health
4. Infection Diseases 3 Occupational and Environmental Determinants of Health
5. Occupational and Environmental Determinants of Health 4 Chronic Disease
6. Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiovascular Risk in Women
7. Cancer
8. Autoimmune and Immune Mediated Disorders. Multisystem Disease
9. Endocrinology and Metabolism
10. Behavioral Health and Psychiatric Disorders
11. Pain, Inflammation, Fatigue 5 Aging
12. Life course into Aging
- Edition: 3
- Published: November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443215520
- eBook ISBN: 9780443215537
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Rebecca Troisi
Dr. Rebecca Troisi is a research epidemiologist with expertise and extensive experience in the areas of reproductive health, cancer, and life course epidemiology at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute. Dr. Troisi leads the Diethylstilbestrol Follow-up Study and has many domestic and international collaborations including the Nordic Project. As well as having co-edited the second edition of Women and Health, she has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications, many as first or last author, and several book chapters. Her current position at the National Institute of Health includes collaboration with the Office of Research on Women’s Health providing an overview and big picture regarding current issues and initiatives in this area.
Affiliations and expertise
Epidemiologist, Staff Scientist, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health (NIH) USAKR
Kathryn Rexrode
Dr. Kathryn Rexrode is the Chief of the Division of Women’s Health in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rexrode is a general internist and has broad and deep research experience in women’s health, with a particular expertise in cardiovascular disease in women. She leads multiple grants from the National institute of Health and is the author of more than 250 research publications. Dr. Rexrode is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and Chair of the Women and Special Populations Committee.
Affiliations and expertise
Chief, Division of Women’s Health, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USAYC
Yvette Cozier
Dr. Yvette Cozier is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology, and the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) at Boston University School of Public Health. She is also a Senior Epidemiologist at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University School of Medicine. A social epidemiologist, Dr. Cozier’s overall research focus has been on the influence of psychosocial and structural factors on health - including racism and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES). Dr. Cozier co-leads (MPI) the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS), a prospective follow-up of over 59,000 African American women begun in 1995. She has published over 100 abstracts, manuscripts, invited commentaries and reviews, monographs, and book chapters on health disparities, cardiometabolic, and immune-mediated conditions including obesity, lupus, and sarcoidosis.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, USAMG
Marlene B. Goldman
Dr. Goldman’s career spans more than thirty-five years and includes extensive experience in research design, methodology, and analysis. As Director of Clinical Research, she supervised faculty and resident research in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology, and gynecologic oncology. Dr. Goldman completed graduate and post-graduate study in epidemiology at Harvard University’s School of Public Health where she also served on the faculty for more than a decade. During the development of the first edition of Women & Health she received a Health Sciences Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Dr. Goldman is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and a lifetime member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. She was previously an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology, a chartered member of the NIH IRAP study section, and an Investigator in the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemoprevention Research program at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
Affiliations and expertise
Emerita Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, USA