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Issues 4, 5 and 6 together are a triple issue with a focus on maternal health. The triple issue is a trilogy of sorts including papers about care and perceptions of care for prenatal, pregnancy and...

There are many things that cause disruptions to social order including natural disasters and pandemics. Natural disasters and pandemics tend to shake up all social institutions. Here we publish a c...

COVID has had far reaching impacts on our lives personally and professionally. We were so pleased to be able to put together this special issue on COVID but know that as scholars our work is just b...

I am pleased to open Volume 42, with a scholarship collection about women in mid-life. I hope future submissions about health issues faced by women during this life stage will increase. Three artic...

Scholars and practitioners who read this journal know we are interested in the conditions that influence decisions concerning sexual reproduction. In this issue, we include research on several repr...

The study of gender in relation to infectious communicable diseases allows researchers to examine questions of whether biological or social factors are responsible for who gets sick and who dies fr...

I think, to some extent, all the articles in this issue contain implicit research queries about what makes life worth living for older women. I find this interesting as I suspect questions and answ...

Readers are asked to recall that in the beginning of 2020, guidelines for publication in healthcare for Women International were tightened. All authors are now asked to be explicit concerning how t...

In Issue 42:2, we publish a collection of articles on issues encountered by women who are migrants. Authors discuss changes in identity that occurring in consequence of migration. Oluwatoyin Olukot...

Scholars and practitioners who read this journal want to know how to alleviate gender-based violence and in consequence keep women safe. We desire the frequency of violence against women to be redu...

Rarely have we devoted an entire issue of Health Care for Women International to methodological articles, but we do so here, and plan to do so in at least one issue per year in future volumes. We h...

Think of this editorial as a trailer for a movie—a blockbuster movie, one that is insightful and thought-provoking. One that makes you excited to see the movie and discuss it with colleagues and fr...

Most readers know that to be published in this scholarly journal, authors must make a theoretical, methodological or practice contribution to literature concerning global women’s health issues. Thi...

I write the editorial for Volume 40:3 of Health care for Women International during a difficult time in my life. A week ago, there was a shooting in a Synagogue where a congregation was celebrating...

In Health Care for Women International, we publish many articles in which women are socially disadvantaged. The research published in this issue is presented collectively to call attention to a glo...

Authors consider reproductive health in this issue of Health Care for Women International. Several relate to the experience of pregnancy and the aftermath of birth. In three others articles, the au...

This edited book includes new policy-relevant research on women’s health issues in Africa. Scholars explore critical topics from different disciplinary traditions using a variety of research methodologies and data sources. The contributors include African scholars with in-depth knowledge of their home contexts, who can furnish nuanced interpretations of local health issues and trends; international researchers who bring vigorous comparative viewpoints; emerging scholars adding to scientific knowledge; and more established researchers with a deep global knowledge of women’s health issues. The range of women’s health issues is vast, including the HIV epidemic and its impacts; domestic violence; the persistence of homebirths; and abortion. In addition, the book investigates emerging health concerns such as CVDs and cancers. Readers will learn that, while old health issues have persisted and assumed new dimensions, newer concerns have materialized and are gaining momentum. The inability of health systems to tackle these issues complicates matters in Africa, creating a sense of desperation that can only be successfully confronted through strong political will and strategic planning, grounded in further research. This book was originally published as several special issues of Health Care for Women International.

Although some readers may not appreciate an editor who boasts, I am doing it anyway in this editorial. I created this issue of Health Care for Women International to show off the breadth of the wor...

I believe men and women must coordinate efforts to resolve feminist health issues. This is clear in the research published in issue 38(5). Researchers discuss how to reduce the incidence of sexual ...