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Women Health

Women's health is influenced by various factors including life stages, social and economic status, and cultural relationships, leading to specific health risks. Key indicators of women's health include maternal mortality rate, perinatal mortality rate, total fertility rate, age-specific fertility rates, and crude birth rate. Women's health nursing focuses on improving women's health across all life stages, addressing reproductive health issues, and fulfilling various roles such as caregiver and educator.

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Women Health

Women's health is influenced by various factors including life stages, social and economic status, and cultural relationships, leading to specific health risks. Key indicators of women's health include maternal mortality rate, perinatal mortality rate, total fertility rate, age-specific fertility rates, and crude birth rate. Women's health nursing focuses on improving women's health across all life stages, addressing reproductive health issues, and fulfilling various roles such as caregiver and educator.

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Women health -1

- Due to life stages such as fertility and menopause, women are


exposed to more health risks.
- Health is influenced by social status, socioeconomic status, working
- conditions, culture, family, and social relationships
- Sexuality is an integral part and fundamental need of human life.

Key indicators to women health

1. Maternal mortality rate:


- refers to deaths related to fertility that occur during pregnancy,
childbirth, and the postpartum period.
- Follows from 1st day to 42nd day and after childbirth
- calculated by dividing the number of women who died from
pregnancy-related causes in a year by the number of live births
in the same year, then multiplying that number by 100,000.

2. Perinatal Mortality Rate


- This period covers 28th week of pregnancy, childbirth & 7 days after
birth
- Stillbirths and infant deaths during this period are called perinatal
deaths
- calculated by dividing the number of stillbirths (or deaths within
the first 7 days of life) by the total number of live births and
stillbirths in the same year, and then multiplying by 1,000.

3. Total Fertility Rate


- defined as the total number of children a woman will give birth to
during her fertile years (ages 15-49)
- obtained by multiplying by 5 the sum of the age-specific
fertility rates.

4. Age-Specific Fertility Rates


- defined as the number of births per 1000 women in a specific age
group
- calculated by dividing the number of live births in a certain
period in a specific age group by the number of women living
in the same age group and period

5. Crude birth rate


- the number of births per 1000 women in a specific period.
Factors affecting women health

1. poverty
- lack of productive resources
- no contraceptive = unwanted pregnancies
- lack prenatal care = maternal/infant mortalities
- increased osteoporosis during menopause and old age

2. Gender
- Gender limits women's opportunities for education, socio-political
participation, and access to health services
- As women's educational level decreases, fertility rates increase
- Poverty and low educational level also increase the risk of violence
against women.

3. Violence
- Violence against women is categorized into four groups: physical,
economic, sexual, and psychological/emotional violence

Women health in nursing

Women's health nursing involves the protection and improvement of


women's physical and psychological health throughout all life stages from
fertilization to death, prevention of reproductive health issues, and
meeting care needs when reproductive health is compromised

The regulation outlines the duties of women's health nurses but does not
include specialized areas like gynaecological oncology, menopause, or
infertility nursing

The women's health nurse has the roles of caregiver, educator,


collaborator, researcher, advocate and manager.

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