This comprehensive handbook will provide nurses and other health-care professionals with a major new resource on women's health issues</p><p></p><p>The handbook opens with a presentation of vital demographics examining women's health within specific age groups.</p><p></p><p>Next the contributors deal with nursing and health-care practice beginning with an examination of women's experiences as recipients of health care and then moving on to establish frameworks for the practice and assessment of the healthy woman.</p><p></p><p>Chapters on health-care promotion for women address such topics as nutrition exercise and fertility control in terms of current theory and research.</p><p></p><p>The handbook ends with an examinati