Women and Health Services: An Agenda for Change

Part one: Defining the problems - Women and the NHS: is there a case for change? - Health at risk: poverty and national health strategies - Reproductive health needs across the lifespan - Health, ageing and older women - Meeting the health needs of women from black and minority ethnic communities - "Hit and miss": the success and failure of psychiatric services for women - Gender issues in the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease - Cause for concern: women and smoking - Part two: Principles into practice - Maternity and health links: an advocacy service for Asian women and their families - The establishment of a women-centred gynaecology assessment unit - Gender, sexuality and health care: improving services - The care of women with breast cancer: research, policy and practice - Women, low income and smoking: developing a 'bottom up' approach - Gender and health promotion in two different settings - Women and collective general practice: the Hoxton experience - involving women as consumers: the Oxfordshire health strategy - From theory to practice: the Glasgow experience - Conclusions: the ways forward - Index.