Women and Health

Women and Health, 3rd Edition, addresses health issues affecting women of all ages from adolescence through maturity. Extending far beyond other books on women’s health, which tend to focus on reproductive health alone, this book covers key issues ranging from osteoporosis to breast cancer, domestic violence, sexually transmitted diseases, occupational hazards, eating disorders, heart disease and other chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and societal and behavioral influences on health. In this third edition of Women and Health, the chapters incorporate issues that affect women across the life course with a special emphasis on the health of mid-life and older women. Changes in the field of women’s health since the first and second editions, for example, in genetics and the impact of sex and gender on health, are represented with the latest scientific findings and controversies. This book provides a comprehensive compendium of the epidemiology of health conditions affecting women internationally and over the life course for the lay reader, clinician, and health research scientist.

Dr. Rebecca Troisi is a research epidemiologist with expertise and extensive experience in the areas of reproductive health, cancer, and life course epidemiology at the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute. Dr. Troisi leads the Diethylstilbestrol Follow-up Study and has many domestic and international collaborations including the Nordic Project. As well as having co-edited the second edition of Women and Health, she has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications, many as first or last author, and several book chapters. Her current position at the National Institute of Health includes collaboration with the Office of Research on Women’s Health providing an overview and big picture regarding current issues and initiatives in this area.

Dr. Kathryn Rexrode is the Chief of the Division of Women’s Health in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rexrode is a general internist and has broad and deep research experience in women’s health, with a particular expertise in cardiovascular disease in women. She leads multiple grants from the National institute of Health and is the author of more than 250 research publications. Dr. Rexrode is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and Chair of the Women and Special Populations Committee.

Dr. Yvette Cozier is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology, and the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) at Boston University School of Public Health. She is also a Senior Epidemiologist at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University School of Medicine. A social epidemiologist, Dr. Cozier’s overall research focus has been on the influence of psychosocial and structural factors on health - including racism and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES). Dr. Cozier co-leads (MPI) the Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS), a prospective follow-up of over 59,000 African American women begun in 1995. She has published over 100 abstracts, manuscripts, invited commentaries and reviews, monographs, and book chapters on health disparities, cardiometabolic, and immune-mediated conditions including obesity, lupus, and sarcoidosis.

Dr. Goldman’s career spans more than thirty-five years and includes extensive experience in research design, methodology, and analysis. As Director of Clinical Research, she supervised faculty and resident research in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology, and gynecologic oncology. Dr. Goldman completed graduate and post-graduate study in epidemiology at Harvard University’s School of Public Health where she also served on the faculty for more than a decade. During the development of the first edition of Women & Health she received a Health Sciences Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Dr. Goldman is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and a lifetime member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. She was previously an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology, a chartered member of the NIH IRAP study section, and an Investigator in the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemoprevention Research program at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center.