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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464020103321

Titolo

Women at war / / edited by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie and Anne L. Naclerio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-934455-8

0-19-022811-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Disciplina

362.1086/97

Soggetti

Soldiers - United States

Women - Health and hygiene - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

19 Compensation, Pension, and Other Benefits for Women Veterans with DisabilitiesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

In the very first text of its kind, Women at War brings together all available information and experience on women's physical and mental health in one resource to enlighten the practitioners caring for them. Our U.S Department of Defense is approximately 15% women with over 300,000 women having deployed since September 11th, 2001. This book reviews the epidemiology, changes in policy and demographics of women in the services, the factors affecting their health and health care while serving in austere environments, issues related to reproductive and urogenital health and how health care provide