This pilot study examined the psycho-physical demands experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women during several Traditional Indigenous Games and recommends culturally relevant interventions to improve physical activity levels and health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
Elsevier, Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy, Volume 3, March 2025
Background: Population-based penetrance studies of breast cancer gene 1/2 (BRCA1/2) pathogenic or likely pathogenic (P/LP) variants in the Eastern Chinese population are currently lacking; thus, we
Elsevier, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 68, March 2025
Introduction: There are large racial disparities in maternal health that cannot be explained by education, income, or other individual-level risk factors.
Elsevier, Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, Volume 54, 1 March 2025
The journey to parenthood is often delayed or prolonged for physicians, which disproportionately negatively impact women physicians. A better understanding of the resources and realities to achieve parenthood allows for more timely family planning while pursuing career advancements in radiology, particularly for medical students and our radiology trainees and early-career colleagues.
Elsevier, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025
Investing in midwifery education is an investment in health and economic development, as midwives can provide about 90% of essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and adolescent health needs
Elsevier, Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 109, 1 March 2025
Based on interviews with Israeli mothers during COVID, this article asks: What practices do mothers use to mark and erase their children's disabilities? What practices are marked as good mothering? How do these processes of marking and erasing negotiate classed ideals of normativity for children and mothers? The findings indicated that low-income mothers mark disability to acquire professional support for children's disabilities, claiming this as their ‘proper’ mothering role, whereas middle-class mothers erase disability through intensive mothering, marking it as theirs.
Elsevier, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025
The authors suggest that being denied a desired contraceptive method (downward coercion) may have a more profound negative impact on patients' self-efficacy, self-esteem, and reproductive autonomy. Patient autonomy needs to be safeguarded
Elsevier, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025
The article explores the impact of infertility on the mental health of women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment.The article highlights the need for tailored psychological support and interventions.
Elsevier, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025
Academic Medical Centers play a key role in providing comprehensive abortion services, from primary care to complex specialty care, and in training future clinicians in abortion provision. The weekly number of abortions at University of Washington remained stable after Dobbs.