Women's Health Needs in Patient Education (Springer Series: Focus on Women) - Softcover

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The goal of this book is to fill the many gaps that health care providers face when helping women learn self care and prevention skills. Special attention is paid to minority status, low literacy, and elderly women who may have fewer opportunities to find health information independently.

While this is ample information on reproductive health available, women experience a lack of timely information on nonreproductive health issues, such major killers as lung cancer and cardiovascular disease; adequate information for family caregivers, who are mostly women; and other disorders, ranging from AIDS to osteoporosis and urinary incontinence.

Nurses, health educators, physicians, and those interested in women's health will find this an eye-opening and important resource.

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Barbara Klug Redman, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Dean and Professor at the Wayne State University College of Nursing. She received her master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Minnesota and her BSN at South Dakota State University and a second masters in bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at The John Hopkins University, a fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Redmans career began as a staff nurse at a hospital in South Dakota. Dr. Redman has been Executive Director of the American Nurse Association, American Nurses Foundation, and American Association of Colleges of Nursing. She has also held professorships at the universities of Washington, Minnesota, Connecticut, and John Hopkins University. She has received honorary doctorates from Georgetown University and the University of Colorado. Dr. Redman has published numerous works in patient education including The Practice of Patient Education, which is now in its ninth edition and has been translated into Japanese, Finnish, Dutch and German.