Journal Details

Women & Health

Women & Health


Published By: Routledge
Volume Number: 50
Frequency: 8 issues per year
Print ISSN: 0363-0242
Online ISSN: 1541-0331

Aims & Scope

© 2009 Thomson Reuters, 2008 Journal Citations Report® ranks Women & Health in the Women's Studies (social science) and Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (social science) categories.

Women & Health publishes original papers and critical reviews containing highly useful information for researchers, policy planners, and all providers of health care for women. These papers cover findings from studies concerning health and illness and physical and psychological well-being of women, as well as the environmental, lifestyle and sociocultural factors that are associated with health and disease, which have implications for prevention, early detection and treatment, limitation of disability and rehabilitation. 

Widely accepted as the standard reference source for specialists in the field, Women & Health contains information that is eminently useful to researchers, policy planners, and all providers of health care for women. The journal covers material involving the physical and psychological well-being of women, the sociocultural factors that lead to health problems, and issues of prevention, early diagnosis and treatment, the limitation of disability, and rehabilitation.

Features include:

  • contributed research reviews
  • original review articles
  • women's health and the law
  • historical perspectives on women's health
  • book reviews
Contributors provide the technical and scientific backdrop that women's health issues require. From time to time, special symposium issues on a single theme are published.

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