Women's Health Collection back issues from January 2001:
Introduction. (Reflections of Inequality).
Jan 01, 2001; ... An estimated 450 million people around the world suffer from mental or neurological disorders or psycho-social problems that affect their mental health, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) in their 2001 World Health Day announcement celebrating mental health. Neuropsychiatric ...
Women, mental health and gender. (The Malaise of Gender).
Jan 01, 2001; ... The following article is based on our book Mujeres, Salud Mental y Genero (Women, Mental Health and Gender), published by the Municipality of Montevideo in May 2000. In this book, we drew on our personal experiences as women and many other women's stories in order to address women's health ...
Women's mental health: triumphs and challenges. (The Malaise of Gender).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Mental health is the foundation of balanced development throughout life and plays an important part in inter-personal relationships. Mental health is key to an individual's successful social integration and full participation in the community and the workplace. Mental health is much more ...
Psychological Malaise, psycho-social factors and health services: women's health. (The Malaise of Gender).
Jan 01, 2001; ... The author, a psychologist with a Master's in Public Administration, teaches at the Instituto de Investigacion y Formacion en Administracion Publica (Public Administration Research and Training Institute) at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba. She is also head of Public Health and ...
Options for life and mental health: rural women from Chiapas, Mexico. (The Malaise of Gender).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Introduction The ever-greater prevalence of mental health problems among the general population is drawing increasing attention. Chronic alcoholism, schizophrenia, senile dementia, severe mental retardation and depression--afflictions affecting different sex, age and ...
On growing older: some observations on important issues. (The Malaise of Gender).
Jan 01, 2001; ... "we bid farewell to the little things without thinking, just like a tree, whose leaves die in autumn." A. Tejada Gomez The more we explore our universe through science, the clearer it becomes that the process of aging is vital to its order. Not even the cosmos, the ...
Towards a gender and generational analysis of mental health. (The Malaise of Gender).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Applied gender studies already have contributed to the field of mental health, specifically in understanding how inequitable living conditions established by a patriarchal society affect middle-aged women. This discipline revealed the links between living conditions and mental health ...
Reflections on the need for a comprehensive focus: women's mental health. (The Malaise of Gender).
Jan 01, 2001; ... The study of women's mental health has grown rapidly thanks to the joint efforts of psychiatrists, sociologists and psychotherapists in analyzing how the social construction of gender influences the mental health of women. Our analysis of women's mental health must first ...
Women, mental health and grassroots education. (The Malaise of Gender).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Salud y Genero, A. C. (Health and Gender) (1) focuses on public policy, education, research and dissemination of information in Mexico through involvement in various national and international networks dedicated to health, sexuality, women and population policies, and sexual and ...
Rediscovering Saint Agatha and the Amazons within: new self-images for breast cancer survivors. (The Malaise of Gender).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Now What Do I Do? When women are told that they have a malignant tumor that must be removed, their initial reactions may include: not believing what is happening to them; wanting to shout with fear or pain; not being able to stop crying; not wanting to tell anyone; needing to ...
Overwork and unemployment as stress factors: women and mental health. (Occupational Hazards).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Introduction According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), one third of the world's working-age population of approximately 3 billion people are either unemployed, under-employed and in search of more work, or they do not earn enough to keep their family above the ...
Who cares for the caregivers? The vicious cycle of illness. (Occupational Hazards).
Jan 01, 2001; ... As professionals dedicated to issues of women and gender, we often appear aloof from the daily concerns of "the average woman." In our professional lives and in our political and ideological commitments as feminists, we tend to project an image of ourselves as strong women. But it is time ...
Mobbing: emotional abuse at work. (Occupational Hazards).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Workplace bullying is reaching epidemic proportions. Mean jokes, put-downs, humiliating treatment are all part of this type of abuse. While men are also affected by psychological harassment, women are by far the favorite target due to the patriarchal culture that favors male abuse of power ...
An invisible hazard: psychological violence in the workplace. (Occupational Hazards).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Introduction: A Woman's Place at Work Brazilian women account for 51% of our country's total population, a figure consistent with global realities. In the 1980s, we comprised 31.8% of Brazil's economically-active population, today, this figure has risen to 40%. In Sao Paulo ...
Gender, mental health and violence. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Jan 01, 2001; ... 1. Introduction Health, understood as psycho-social well-being, depends on a country's economic, political and social development, and on public health conditions (Ministerio de Salud, 1999, p. 19.). This concept of health as "well-being" implies not only the absence of ...
The evocation: a political resource in mental health. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Jan 01, 2001; ... The idea that women are crazy has pervaded human history. Where did this belief come from? Why does it persist? We now know that the link between madness and the female gender is socially assigned and has a collective meaning. For centuries, countless women have endured diverse ...
Reflections on battered women: gender violence and mental health. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Introduction Although gender-based violence is far from being a new phenomenon, recent events have played a decisive role in bringing it to light and shifting it from the private to the public realm. Of particular importance was the United Nations General Assembly's ...
Violence and its impact on comprehensive health: an interview with Soledad Larrain. (Consequences of Gender Violence).(Interview)
Jan 01, 2001 ... Chilean psychologist, researcher and consultant to UNICEF Soledad Larrain has dedicated much of her professional life the analysis of gender-based violence and the prevention of violence against children. In the following interview, Soledad discusses the results of a recent study on ...
The impact of incest in women's lives. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Jan 01, 2001; ... The feminist movements of the 60s and 70s and the new social awareness they produced in some sectors finally brought to an end the secret of sexual violence against women. The "conspiracy of silence" which defined adult society's complicity with incest was denounced, and incest became the ...
Letters from survivors. (Support Groups).(Poem)
Jan 01, 2001 ... My Silent Scream Yes, I am that little girl who screams silently ... Who like a little girl thought that someone bigger than me was bigger than all the circumstances of my life ... Who waited for someone who was braver than the human weakness ...
The rebirth of Zoilamerica: surviving incest. (Consequences of Gender Violence).(Interview)
Jan 01, 2001; ... In this interview by Nicaraguan journalist Mildred Largaespada, Zoilamgrica Narvaez shares her process of self-discovery and rebirth after confronting sexual abuse by her stepfather, ex-president of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega, and successfully bringing her complaint before the Inter American ...
Pregnancy resulting from rape: breaking the silence of multiple crises. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Jan 01, 2001; ... For the past 17 years, the Fundacion Servicios Integrales para la Mujer (SI MUJER, Comprehensive Services for Women) of Cali, Columbia, has been dedicated to the struggle for women's equity and development. This work is carried out by offering services, education and research with a gender ...
Domestic violence self-help groups: taking steps to end victimization. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Jan 01, 2001; ... In situations of domestic violence, the self-help group is an effective answer that incorporates the individual, subjective perspectives of the women who are victims of violence and also addresses the social dimension of the problem (by questioning a society that promotes the subordination ...
From home to the stage: violence against women and mental health in theater. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Jan 01, 2001; ... "We women are today the protagonists of a change which is as positive as it is necessary, with the true hope of facing the future with optimism? This expression of faith in the future closes Scene 1 of Mujeres Fraguando Suenos by the playwright Francisco "Pati" Domenech. Despite the ...
Once upon a time, there was a little girl ... (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Much of what follows was written a long time ago. It has been stored on three computers since April 18, 1994. On that date I finished the first written testimony of my own experience of sexual abuse. Some months later, I tried to publish it in the Sunday supplement of a newspaper in ...
Violence begets violence. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Introduction The Committee for the Comprehensive Study of Abused Children in Costa Rica's Hospital Nacional de Ninos (National Children's Hospital) has been working for 20 years in the detection, treatment and follow-up of cases involving child abuse, including negligence, ...
Violence, subordination and women's mental health. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Jan 01, 2001; ... All signs seem to indicate that women suffer more "mental problems" than men. We are the primary consumers of medication, psychotherapy and other treatments related to mental health (Dio Bleichmar, 1990), and our risk for depression is two to three times higher than men's. In ...
The body as text: Anorexia nervosa. (The Mortification of the Flesh).
Jan 01, 2001; ... In eating disorders, the significance of body and food converge in the female experience. I'm familiar with the difficulties of the food-body-womanhood relationship through my own personal experience, as well as the experiences of female friends and acquaintances. A description of the ...
Body image and eating disorders: adolescence and gender. (The Mortification of the Flesh).
Jan 01, 2001; ... This work forms part of a research project entitled "Gender, Development and Image Disorders: Psychosocial Bases for Social and Educational Action" National Research Plan, Sector Program, CICYT-Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Women and Gender Studies, 1997-1999, to be published by ...
Addictions to psychoactive substances and eating disorders. (The Mortification of the Flesh).
Jan 01, 2001; ... The right to health is internationally recognized as a human right as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, various international treaties and conventions, and programs for action from several world conferences held in the 1990s. Nonetheless, innumerable psycho-social ...
Anorexia and bulimia: early prevention and detection. (The Mortification of the Flesh).
Jan 01, 2001; ... Thirty years ago, there was no record of anorexia nervosa and bulimia anywhere in the world. Not because physicians and psychiatrists lacked the tools to detect these disorders, but because the boom of waif-like thinness had not yet invaded western women's collective imagination. ...
Directory.(Directory)
Jan 01, 2001 ... <Pre> Ada Caridad Alfonso Rodriguez Havana, Cuba aalfonso@infomed.sld.cu Laura E. Asturias Guatemala, Guatemala leasturias@itelgua.com Loreto Araya Santiago, Chile loluz_a@yahoo.com Amparo Bonilla Campos Valencia, Spain Amparo.Bonilla@uv.es Gloria Baez Buenos ...