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Taking Care of You: The Empowered Woman's Guide to Better Health
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A practical and extensive resource guide by Mayo Clinic Press for women who want to understand and take charge of their own health, presented in short, easy-to-digest chapters.
Women do not always receive the same healthcare as men. In fact, for too long medicine has not recognized that numerous health conditions — like heart disease, stroke, stress, mental health and more — impact women differently than men. Orthopedic surgeon Mary I. O’Connor and medical anthropologist Kanwal L. Haq want to change that by empowering women with knowledge about the current landscape of women’s health, and showing them how to actively engage with their healthcare team.
In a groundbreaking publication, Taking Care of You: The Empowered Woman’s Guide to Better Health, O’Connor and Haq have enlisted 111 leading women physicians and health experts from all across the country to create a practical resource guide for women to improve their health and obtain better healthcare.
Taking Care of You is refreshingly supportive and jargon-free, with colorful illustrations to help the reader better understand what can often be dense medical information. Its unique approach includes three main sections:
WOMEN AND THE CURRENT HEALTH LANDSCAPE includes topics like:
- What exactly is “women’s health”
- How to find the right healthcare team
- How to use the internet for medical information
- When to go to urgent care versus the emergency department
- And much more
COMMON CLINICAL CONDITIONS IMPACTING WOMEN focuses on 55 non-reproductive clinical conditions that impact women more than men, or differently than men. They include:
- Breast, lung, cervical, and ovarian cancer
- High blood pressure, cholesterol, blood clots and stroke
- Anxiety, depression, obesity and metabolic syndrome
- Thyroid disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, lupus, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis
- Painful sex, pelvic inflammatory disease, polycystic ovary syndrome, urinary tract infection and incontinence, uterine fibroids and abnormal vaginal bleeding
Each chapter is divided into subsections that explain:
- What is the condition?
- Can it be prevented?
- How is it treated? Why does it matter to women? (Including differences related to sex, race and ethnicity)
- Questions to ask your clinician and healthcare team
- Pearls of wisdom from clinical experts
Taking Care of You focuses on activities women can do everyday — like eating well, sleeping and exercising — and how to effectively engage in these pillars of health to take better care of themselves.
Taking Care of You is an easy-to-use and accessible guide to be shared between mother and daughter, sister, aunt, and grandmother — an essential resource for every woman, and those who love her.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781945564352 |
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Publisher: | Mayo Clinic Press |
Publication date: | 10/04/2022 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 480 |
Sales rank: | 719,648 |
File size: | 18 MB |
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About the Author
Mary I. O'Connor, M.D., is an orthopedic surgeon, health equity leader, healthcare entrepreneur, and former U.S. Olympic athlete (Women’s Rowing, 1980). She is co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Vori Health, a spine and orthopedic telemedicine company on a mission to empower all people to better health. After a distinguished career at Mayo Clinic where Dr. O’Connor was awarded Professor Emerita status, she went on to lead the Center for Musculoskeletal Care at Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health and was Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Yale School of Medicine. A passionate advocate for health equity, Dr. O’Connor has led the national non-profit coalition, Movement is Life, since its inception in 2010 in its efforts to eliminate musculoskeletal health disparities. A graduate of Yale University, Dr. O’Connor obtained her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine and completed her orthopedic residency and fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She can be found on Twitter at twitter.com/MaryOConnorMD and LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/maryoconnormd/
Kanwal L Haq, M.S., is a medical anthropologist, community organizer, and non-profit consultant. She currently leads the NYC women’s health programs at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine. An applied-research scientist dedicated to education and health equity, Kanwal utilizes community-based participatory research and implementation science to build more effective, efficient and equitable systems of care for women across the world. Her desire to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and community resources served as the catalyst for Taking Care of You. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Kanwal worked at Yale School of Medicine and completed fellowships at the United Nations, Americorps, and the University Teaching Hospital (CHUK) in Kigali, Rwanda. Kanwal completed her B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Missouri and her M.S. in medical anthropology from the Boston University School of Medicine. She can be found on Twitter at twitter.com/kanwallhaq and LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/kanwallhaq/
Kanwal L Haq, MS is a medical anthropologist, community organizer, and non-profit consultant. She leads the NYC women’s health programs at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine. As an applied-research scientist, Kanwal specializes in community-based participatory research and implementation science focused on health and education. A fierce advocate for systems-level change, Kanwal has worked on several initiatives to build more effective, efficient, and equitable systems of care for women across the world. Prior to joining Icahn School of Medicine, Kanwal worked at Yale School of Medicine, and completed fellowships at the United Nations, Americorps, and The University Teaching Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda. Kanwal completed her B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Missouri and her M.S. in medical anthropology from Boston University School of Medicine.
Table of Contents
Why we wrote this book 7
How to use this book 8
What is 'women's health'? 9
Part 1 Women and the current health landscape
1 The role of social determinants in women's health 14
2 Challenges faced by women of color 20
3 Special considerations: Sexual and gender minority women 25
4 Is Google your first responder? 28
5 Who are clinicians? They're not just physicians 35
6 Finding the right clinician 39
7 Shared decision making and you 45
8 Telemedicine: Getting the most out of your care 49
9 Urgent care versus the emergency department 53
Part 2 Common conditions impacting women
10 ACL tears 60
11 Anemia 66
12 Anxiety 71
13 Asthma 79
14 Blood clots 84
15 Breast lump 90
16 Breast cancer 96
17 Carpal tunnel syndrome 102
18 Cervical cancer 107
19 Chronic fatigue syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis) 112
20 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 119
21 Colorectal cancer 127
22 Constipation 134
23 Dementia 140
24 Depression 146
25 Diabetes 153
26 Diverticulitis 159
27 Endometrial cancer 165
28 Endometriosis 170
29 Fibromyalgia 176
30 Gastroesophageal reflux disease 181
31 Hand and thumb pain 187
32 Heart disease 192
33 Hepatitis C 199
34 High blood pressure 204
35 High cholesterol 212
36 Hip osteoarthritis 217
37 Hip labral tear 223
38 Irritable bowel syndrome 229
39 Knee osteoarthritis 235
40 Knee meniscus injury 241
41 Low back pain 245
42 Lung cancer 251
43 Lupus 257
44 Migraines 263
45 Multiple sclerosis 269
46 Neck, pain 274
47 Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease 279
48 Obesity and metabolic syndrome 284
49 Osteoporosis 289
50 Ovarian cancer 295
51 Painful sex 300
52 Pelvic inflammatory disease 305
53 Pelvic organ prolapse 309
54 Peripheral arterial disease 315
55 Polycystic ovary syndrome 319
56 Rheumatoid arthritis 325
57 Shoulder pain 330
58 Stroke 337
59 Thyroid disease 343
60 Urinary incontinence 350
61 Urinary tract infection 359
62 Uterine fibroids 364
63 Vaginal bleeding (abnormal) 370
64 Vaginal infections 376
65 When your illness is a mystery 383
Part 3 Taking care of you
66 What contributes to your health? 390
67 Nutrition 394
68 Sleep 400
69 Physical activity 406
70 Purposeful activity 410
71 Social relationships 417
72 Mindfulness 422
73 Acupuncture 426
74 Vaccines 429
75 Medical Research 439
76 Personalized medicine 444
77 Our connectedness 451
78 You are a health promoter! 454
Selected sources 457
About the authors 483
Acknowledgments 485
Index 486