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KMID : 0892720140180010001
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Journal of the Korean Society of Maternal and Child Health
2014 Volume.18 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.12
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Life-cycle Specific Comprehensive Women’s Health and Maternal Child Health
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Ahn Myoung-Ock
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this review article is to explore the life-cyle specific comprehensive women’s health issues and maternal child health.
Methods: Life-cycle specific women’s health issues were investigated in terms of perspectives of preventive medicine and health promotion. Development of women’s health policy should be to maximize women’s happiness by effective allocation and utilization of available resources for women’s whole life-cycle.
Results: Maternal outcomes and women’s health are influenced by complex web of socioeconomic and environmental factors that precede pregnancy, and by generation which is a continuum of women’s life-cycle specific health. Chronic conditions place women at increased risk for adverse pregnancy outcome as well as complications of pregnancy have impact on a women’s long term health and quality of life. The period of childbearing is much shorter than the duration of childbearing in women’s lives. Nevertheless, women’s health are usually measured only by immediate pregnancy consequences. More woman years are outside the reproductive age. Women’s health should be valued as a continuity of care and access to services before, during, after, and independent of childbearing.
Conclusions: Comprehensive health needs should be met through more holistic approach including health care policy for women. Women’s health in MCH (Maternal Child Health) includes importance of considering childbearing as critical periods of risk for the health of earlier and later in women’s lives. Close attention to life-cycle specific women’s health needs is the essential for happiness of women and society.
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KEYWORD
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women’s health, life-cycle’ maternal child health
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