GSJ: Women's Health Issues
Please stop by or phone the Reference Desk (651-690-6652)
if you have questions or need further assistance. The St Kate’s
reference librarians are your research partners.
See also the Library’s
guide to: Women's Studies
Contents of this
page:
Finding Books:
Searching CLICnet
Background Resources: Reference Books
Finding Articles and Databases
Web Resources
Finding
Books: Search CLICnet
Search in CLICnet
to find books and videos in the St. Kate’s library and the seven
other CLIC libraries.
Examples of keyword searches:
women and health and
developing countries
women and world health and human rights
women and trafficking
women and rape and war
Reference
Books
Reference books are a good place
to start to find overviews, background information, and specific topics.
Encyclopedia of
Women and Gender
REF HQ1115 .E52 2001
See “Health and Health Care: How Gender Makes Women Sick,”
vol. 1
Encyclopedia of
Women’s Health Issues
REF RA778 .G39 2002
Female Genital Mutilation:
A Guide to Laws and Policies Worldwide
REF K5304 .F46 2000
Greenwood Encyclopedia
of Women’s Issues Worldwide
REF HQ 1115 .G74 2003
Six-volume set covering Asia and Oceania, Central and South America, Europe,
North America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Routledge International
Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge
REF HQ1115 .R69 2000
See “Health: Overview,” “Health Care,” and “Health
Challenges,” vol. 2
Women in the Third
World: an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues
REF HQ1870.9 .W6548 1998
See “Demographics and Health,” ch. 4
Women’s Rights:
A Global View
REF HQ1236 .W6527 2001
See Index for “Health Concerns”
The World’s
Women, 2000: Trends and Statistics
REF HQ1154 .W95 2000
Finding Articles and Databases
Academic
Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications in multiple
disciplines. To find only scholarly publications, clink on the box before
“scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals.”
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing
on many medical disciplines.
PsycINFO
This database, produced by the American Psychological Association,
contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles,
book chapters, books and dissertations, all in psychology and related
disciplines, dating as far back as 1840.
Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000
An online archive of primary sources related to women's activism in public health and many other areas
CWI
Contemporary Women’s Issues (via FirstSearch, password required)
CIAO:
Columbia International Affairs Online
Includes full text documents from 1991 onward related to theory and
research in international affairs.
Web Resources
Global Health Council,
Women’s Health
http://www.globalhealth.org/view_top.php3?id=225
GHC is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving
lives by improving health throughout the world. See sections on HIV/AIDS
and women, maternal health, reproductive health, and gender-based violence.
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/
See: Women’s Rights under Global Issues
HRW is the largest, independent, nongovernmental human rights organization
based in the U.S.
International Women’s
Health Coalition
http://www.iwhc.org/
Works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding
that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide.
International Center
for Research on Women
http://www.icrw.org/
ICRW is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving
the lives of women in poverty, advancing equality and human rights, and
contributing to broader economic and social well-being. See links to HIV/AIDS,
nutrition & food security, poverty reduction, reproductive health,
violence against women, and women’s rights.
The National Women’s
Health Information Center
http://www.4woman.gov/
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Federal
Government source for women’s health information with FAQs and links
to resources.
National Women’s
Health Network
http://www.nwhn.org/
The Network “improves the health of all women by developing
and promoting a critical analysis of health issues in order to affect
policy and support consumer decision-making.” See their fact sheets
about women’s health information and resources.
United Nations Development
Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
http://www.unifem.org/
UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the U.N. See their “Work
at a Glance” for information about economic rights, HIV/AIDS, indigenous
women’s rights, and human rights.
Women’s Human
Rights Resources, Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/
Free online library with a searchable database listing hundreds of
articles, documents and links related to international women's rights
law or the domestic application of international women's rights law.
WomenWatch
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/index.html
WomenWatch is the central gateway to information and resources on
the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout
the United Nations system.
World Health Organization,
Women’s Health
http://www.who.int/topics/womens_health/en/
Provides links to fact sheets about women’s health, and international
women’s health activities and programs within the WHO community.
World Health Organization,
Department of Gender, Women and Health
http://www.who.int/gender/en/
Brings attention to the ways in which biological and social differences
between women and men affect health and the steps needed to achieve health
equity.
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