Women and Health
- 3rd Edition - March 27, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Rebecca Troisi, Kathryn Rexrode, Yvette Cozier, Marlene B. Goldman
- Language: English
Women and Health addresses health issues affecting women of all ages — from adolescence through maturity. It goes far beyond other books on this topic, which concentrate only on… Read more
Women and Health addresses health issues affecting women of all ages — from adolescence through maturity. It goes far beyond other books on this topic, which concentrate only on reproductive health, and has a truly international perspective. It covers key issues ranging from osteoporosis to breast cancer and other cancers, domestic violence, sexually transmitted diseases, occupational hazards, eating disorders, heart disease and other chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and societal and behavioral influences on health.
In this third edition of Women and Health, the chapters address health issues that affect women across the life course with a special emphasis on the health of mid-life and older women. The field of women’s health has matured since the first and second edition, such as genetics and the impact of sex and gender on health, providing the opportunity to capture the latest scientific findings and controversies. The book provides a comprehensive compendium of the epidemiology of health conditions affecting women over the life course for the lay reader, clinician, and health research scientist.
- 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
- Researchers and medical specialists will learn how the gender-specific risks and features of one organ system’s diseases affect the health of other organ systems
- Orients non-gerontologist about the importance of considering the entire life cycle of women within research designs and treatment plans
Research scientists in many areas of women & health, clinical practices that treat women of all ages, and public and academic libraries. Nurses, midwives, psychologists, and medical students
Part 1: Women, Health, and Medicine
Section 1 - Introduction
1. Women's Health in the Third Decade of the 21st Century
2. The Journey to the 21st Century
3. Current Approaches to Women's Health Care
4. The Impact of Health Coverage on Women's Access to Care
5. Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches to Women's Health
6. Racial inequity in Women's Health
7. The Mutability of Women's Health with Age: The Sometimes Rapid, and Often Enduring, Health Consequences of Injustice
8. Sexual Minority Health
9. Research on Transgender and Gender Diverse Health
10. Women's Health in Low and Middle-income Countries
11. Migrant and Refugee Health
Section 2 - Research Methods in Women’s Health
12. Understanding Research Designs
13. Progress in Women’s Health Research
14. Lifecourse Approach to Research in Women’s Health
15. Principles of Genetics and Genomics
16. Other 'omics
Section 3 - Social Determinants
17. Women, Stress and Health
18. Intimate Partner Violence
19. Social Policy Choices, Women, and Health
20. Built Environment and Women’s Health
21. Incarceration
Part 2: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Section 4 - Sexual and Reproductive Health
22. Puberty Development: Determinants and Health Impacts
23. Menstruation and Menstrual Disorders
24. Premenstrual Disorders
25. Contraception
26. Induced Abortion
27. Infertility
28. Medically Assisted Reproduction
29. Labor and Childbirth
30. Pregnancy Complications and Future Maternal Health
31. The Epidemiology of Endometriosis and Adenomyosis
32. Uterine Leiomyomata
33. Female Sexuality and Sexual Function
34. Vulvodynia
35. The Epidemiology of Menopause
36. Overview of Pelvic Floor Disorders: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
37. Hysterectomy
38. Female Genital Cutting
Section 5 - Infections
39. Gonococcal Infection in Women
40. Chlamydia trachomatis
41. Syphilis in Women
42. Vaginal Infections
43. Urinary Tract Infection
44. Genital Herpes
45. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Women
46. Human Papilloma Virus Infection in Women
47. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and Chronic Pelvic Pain
48. Hepatitis C Infection in Women
49. Malaria
Section 6 - Occupational and Environmental Determinants of Health
50. Working Women in the United States: A Statistical Profile
51. International Perspectives: Women's Occupational Health
52. Multiple Roles and Complex Exposures
53. Reproductive Hazards of Occupational and Environmental Exposures
54. Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders
55. Occupational Cancer
56. Environmental Exposures and Cancer
Section 1 - Introduction
1. Women's Health in the Third Decade of the 21st Century
2. The Journey to the 21st Century
3. Current Approaches to Women's Health Care
4. The Impact of Health Coverage on Women's Access to Care
5. Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches to Women's Health
6. Racial inequity in Women's Health
7. The Mutability of Women's Health with Age: The Sometimes Rapid, and Often Enduring, Health Consequences of Injustice
8. Sexual Minority Health
9. Research on Transgender and Gender Diverse Health
10. Women's Health in Low and Middle-income Countries
11. Migrant and Refugee Health
Section 2 - Research Methods in Women’s Health
12. Understanding Research Designs
13. Progress in Women’s Health Research
14. Lifecourse Approach to Research in Women’s Health
15. Principles of Genetics and Genomics
16. Other 'omics
Section 3 - Social Determinants
17. Women, Stress and Health
18. Intimate Partner Violence
19. Social Policy Choices, Women, and Health
20. Built Environment and Women’s Health
21. Incarceration
Part 2: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Section 4 - Sexual and Reproductive Health
22. Puberty Development: Determinants and Health Impacts
23. Menstruation and Menstrual Disorders
24. Premenstrual Disorders
25. Contraception
26. Induced Abortion
27. Infertility
28. Medically Assisted Reproduction
29. Labor and Childbirth
30. Pregnancy Complications and Future Maternal Health
31. The Epidemiology of Endometriosis and Adenomyosis
32. Uterine Leiomyomata
33. Female Sexuality and Sexual Function
34. Vulvodynia
35. The Epidemiology of Menopause
36. Overview of Pelvic Floor Disorders: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
37. Hysterectomy
38. Female Genital Cutting
Section 5 - Infections
39. Gonococcal Infection in Women
40. Chlamydia trachomatis
41. Syphilis in Women
42. Vaginal Infections
43. Urinary Tract Infection
44. Genital Herpes
45. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Women
46. Human Papilloma Virus Infection in Women
47. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and Chronic Pelvic Pain
48. Hepatitis C Infection in Women
49. Malaria
Section 6 - Occupational and Environmental Determinants of Health
50. Working Women in the United States: A Statistical Profile
51. International Perspectives: Women's Occupational Health
52. Multiple Roles and Complex Exposures
53. Reproductive Hazards of Occupational and Environmental Exposures
54. Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders
55. Occupational Cancer
56. Environmental Exposures and Cancer
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: March 27, 2026
- Language: English
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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