Overview

In the very first text of its kind, Women at War brings together all available information and experience on women's physical and mental health in one resource to enlighten the practitioners caring for them. Our U.S Department of Defense is approximately 15% women with over 300,000 women having deployed since September 11th, 2001. This book reviews the epidemiology, changes in policy and demographics of women in the services, the factors affecting their health and health care while serving in austere environments, issues related to reproductive and urogenital health and how health care providers can help prepare and prevent illness. The book also looks at mental health issues to include PTSD and other psychological effects of war, intimate partner violence, sexual assault and suicide, as well as the veteran experience. The book brings together researchers, clinicians, and service member experience and presents the information in a practical, actionable format. It also highlights areas where data is lacking and more study is demanded.

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9780199344536

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Featuring 19 chapters written by 40 contributors, including 10 men, the textbook-style work is heavy on the academic research, with articles ranging from illnesses and mortality rates of women in Iraq and Afghanistan and post-traumatic stress to medical concerns, reproductive health, homecomings, motherhood in wartime and more. --Military TimesFeatured in the National Museum of Health and Medicine Newsletter.

Featuring 19 chapters written by 40 contributors, including 10 men, the textbook-style work is heavy on the academic research, with articles ranging from illnesses and mortality rates of women in Iraq and Afghanistan and post-traumatic stress to medical concerns, reproductive health, homecomings, motherhood in wartime and more. --Military Times Featured in the National Museum of Health and Medicine Newsletter. In Women at War, Army veterans Elspeth Cameron Ritchie and Anne L. Naclerio have produced the first book detailing what war does to the physical and mental health of the growing number of women waging it. ... The 40 contributors (including 10 men) write about women's health on the front lines and the challenges of being a soldier and a mother. --TIME The book is directed at clinicians who care for women who are or who have been in the military. Most chapters are relatively short, 10-20 pages, and very readable. Although we do not know a lot about women at war, what we do know is in this book. --Community Psychiatrist The book makes some truly notable contributions to the medical and behavioral health fields, as these topics comprise over half of the text and are interwoven throughout the five sections of the book. --PsycCRITIQUES Featured in- Clinical Psychiatry News

Author Information

Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH Professor of Psychiatry Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences COL Anne L Naclerio, MD, MPH Deputy Surgeon, US Army Europe Women's Health Task Force, Office of the Army Surgeon General Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)

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