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The Benefits Of A Women’s Health Alliance

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:43:43 +0000

Women’s health issues can be very complicated. The specific physiology of a woman can have effects on all aspects of her health. Even a healthy woman can find that pregnancy can complicate her lifestyle and even the demands of her job. Often, it is the woman who cares for her parents, her husband and their children sometimes to the detriment of her own health.

Nutrition has a special place in a woman’s health and women are more prone to disorders connected to nutrition. The connection of a woman’s health and her life is special. A series of specialists, each dealing with an isolated condition is not enough for the thorough care of a woman’s health. Women can benefit from an alliance of physicians who care for women’s health.

In Your Area

A women’s health alliance may be in your local area. If so, it is an alliance of health care professionals who share information about women’s health. Doctor’s and nurses share the methods for talking effectively with women as well as discussing conditions that may not show up in the same way in women as they do in men.

There may be symposiums on the role of stress in women’s health or how demands of work and family may affect a woman’s ability to follow a treatment regimen. A local women’s health alliance can arrange workshops for women with certain health conditions to teach them how to handle those health issues and to encourage women to talk to each other about the ways that a disease can intrude on the normal part of life.

A local women’s health alliance can act as advocates when women’s health issues are in question. A women’s health alliance can raise money for women’s health projects, educational outreach and screening programs. In every community, there is at least one group of women who are underserved in their health needs. A women’s health alliance can formulate ways to reach those women with the services they need.

Volunteers can be organized, information can be disseminated and local community leaders can be lobbied thanks to the efforts of the local women’s health alliance. If a search for such a group turns up the fact that there is none, what can you do? You can contact local healthcare professionals and start or join in an effort to organize a women’s health alliance. Good women’s health helps the entire community.

Are women victims of widespread discrimination – Part 6

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:31:19 +0000

Remember the women voices that cried out for women’s rights, where have they gone? Have they died, and being dead, taken their vision and voice to the grave with them? Parents typically want their children to have a better life than the one they had. Those women did an outstanding job to gain women’s rights so that their daughters could have the kind of life that wasn’t an option for them. Women do have the rights now that women of yesteryear prayed and fought for, but we still haven’t taken full advantage of them. Our mothers seemed to have all walked the same path, carving a deep trench for us to follow and not be able to get out of; in other words, they created roles, or parts, that we are expected to play in our society. Schroff states,

Despite the 20-year-old federal mandate for gender equity in schools, despite

feminism’s many effects and despite Hillary Rodham Clinton’s groundbreaking activism in

the White House, society’s gender-sorting machinery still grinds away, steering girls

forcefully into outdated female roles. Its grumblings can be heard throughout a girl’s

everyday world; at playtime, in television programming, even in the guiding words of

well-intentioned parents and teacher.

It is our job, now, to fight for our daughters so they too can have better lives than us. It is our job to continue the fight, not for rights, but for equality. Fighting for equality will not be easy; there are no laws that can be passed to change people’s beliefs. The only way we will win the war with discrimination is through the raising of our children.

Girls are raised differently than boys; they usually get Barbies, babies, and easy-bake ovens. By not opening all options, we are teaching them that they have a duty to maintain that feminine-like role when they become adults. Children see what’s going on around them – what jobs are male-dominated and what jobs are female-dominated. When girls play, they pretend to be nurses and teachers. When talking to a parent, Cate replies, “I don’t believe that you’re telling your daughter that she can be a doctor if she wants to will make her believe it, because I don’t believe that the ‘idea’ girls-can’t-be-doctors means much more than that we live in a society in which people talk about doctors as he. Just nurses are she”. Our daughters are getting mixed messages; we tell them they can be doctors, but we refer to doctors as he. We need to do more than just tell them

There Are Many Womens Health Centers To Choose From

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:18:36 +0000

There is an urgent need for education, clinical care, research as well as advocacy of health care for young girls as well as young women. To meet these requirements there are many womens health centers and one such womens health center is Womens Health Clinic which is located in Winnipeg, Canada.Providing a Comprehensive Range of Health Services to WomenFor those women who live in New York, there is the Iris Cantor Womens health center which provides comprehensive healthcare services that have specifically been designed for women and is the first of its type and scale in the city of New York. Its physicians are also full-time faculty members at Weill Cornell Medical College.Whichever womens health center one chooses it should have the right combination of specialists since they would be able to treat women for serious breast or gynecological problems. This may involve their having to see numerous doctors that could range from imaging doctors to surgery to internal medicine.

The womens health center should bring the patient and doctor close to each other. The center should even have an interdisciplinary approach that would mean that physicians from different medical specialties, as well as nurses and other related health personnel are able to collaborate to provide improved patient care.
A center also enable the women to come to the womens health center and be treated for menstrual, breast as well as hormonal concerns and those other health areas that are specific to women. Indeed, women should be able to receive the full complement of health services that could also be customized to meet individual needs.

Plus size women fashion tips: What not to wear – Part 9

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:03:23 +0000

Well shouldn’t we all by now know what not to wear? Haven’t we all watched those television shows addressing the common sense rules of what not to wear; read all the magazines and perused the latest advice on this subject offered by so called experts on the subject. Of course we have. Likely we have done so more than most. If you are like me you have probably been left wondering the same thing, can you follow the same rules that those women who are not blessed with the same dimensions we are? Do those rules apply to you? Or maybe you wonder, just when will someone provide us with some simple rules to follow that are not relegating us to ugly, shapeless, all black, or other fade into the background clothing; or on the flip side of this scenario those bold as you please prints that seem to grow profusely across our bodies in colors and flora that are not found anywhere in nature providing a map of our terrain that would have been better left uncharted.

Do you sometimes wish, as I do that someone would consider that millions of us do not stop at the rack of size 0 to 8. When you watch those fashion make-over shows, do you wish that just one in every one hundred there was someone who faintly resembled you? When you walk into the stores that are supposed to specialize in clothing that is your size do you want to see the mannequins’ actually wearing clothing that hasn’t been pinned in back? Or even better do you wish that in the department stores, way back hidden in the back where they sell Plus sizes the mannequins’ were actually dressed and accessorized in clothing that you could find in that section of the store. I say yes to all of this.

Unfortunately retail, whether on-line or brick and mortar has not fully caught up to those of us who are blessed with dimensions on the fuller side. So we have to rely upon our mirrors, our friends, each other, and some sensible “rules”. Here are mine for all occasions.

Daywear (unless you are at the gym)

1. No gym shorts.

2. No stretch materials

3. No shinny materials

4. No bulky or over large shirts

5. No ankle socks with gym shoes

6. No spandex anything

7. No sweats

8. No flowers, animals, cartoon characters, or message t-shirts

9. No yoga pants

10. No pajamas or anything that could be mistaken as lounge wear

11. No flip flops

12. No stretched out of shape sweaters

13. No torn jeans

Work Wear

1. No Muumuus

2. No high-waist pants or skirts, especially if they have

How to keep your teen girl safe when she parties

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:15:32 +0000

Being the mother of a teen girl is not an easy task. Teenage girls have the tendency to be more vulnerable than boys. Most teenage girls have a strong desire to be popular, whether it’s school-wide or just among their own group of peers. The 80’s hit song “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” was exactly right! Girls do just want to have fun! But the defenition of “fun” has changed over the last few years, and even more so over the last decade. The fact of the matter is that girls are now more prone to engage in sex, drugs, and alcohol. The fact that parents are much more lenient, and not as strict with their children as parents were even just 15 years ago, has made it much easier for girls to get to do exactly what they want or what their peers want, with no supervision or discipline.

Teenage girls wear provacative clothing, ie. suggestive clothing. Teenage girls are now taught “safe sex” instead of abstinance. Teenage girls see women flaunting themselves, not realizing that those women are a dime-a-dozen, and they want that attention too. They are exposed to more sex and violence. The defenition of fun has been so manipulted and twisted, that’s it’s hard to figure out just what “fun” is, and how to achieve it.

But, it still remains true: Girls Just Want to Have Fun! Partying is a way that teenage girls do that! As a parent, letting your teenage daughter “go out” does not have to be a sit-in-suspense all night event or a “whatever you want, see you tomorrow” event. Believe it or not, there can be a happy medium! Parents should ALWAYS be aware of what their daugher is doing. As a parent set guildlines to help keep your daughter safe when she does go out! The dangers of rape, kidnapping, and other safety-issues are all too real in this day and age. Set guidelines such as:

*A curfew. There is absolutely nothing going on after 10pm or 11pm that could be safe and legal. Remember too this is the time of evening when most drunk drivers will start coming out on the roads. Teach about reliability, and as she grows older and demonstrates reliability, the curfew time can become negotiable.

*Make sure she tells you exactly where she is going, and who she is going to be with. And make sure you KNOW the people she is going to be with. Know your daughter’s friends.

*Write down all cell phone numbers (or enter them into your phone) of friends she will be with.

*Make sure she has a cell phone on her, battery