Review, 2009
What health issues are especially important for women's wellness throughout their lives?
The review describes women's wellness as broad life satisfaction including reproductive, hormonal, bone, and gastrointestinal health.
What they did
Review article discussing women's wellness across the lifespan from preconception through death, including physical, emotional, mental, and social dimensions.
What they found
Women's wellness includes reproductive and hormonal issues, bone health, gastrointestinal stress, and urinary incontinence. These disrupt quality of life. Wellness is defined as an individual's subjective experience of overall life satisfaction.
What it means for you
Healthcare providers should consider women's full health needs across their entire lives, including reproductive and hormonal health. This is a review of wellness concepts, not new research.
About the study
- Original title
- Promoting wellness in women across the life span
- Authors
- Zender R, Olshansky E
- Journal
- The Nursing clinics of North America
- Year
- 2009
- Study design
- Review
- What was tested
- None - discussion of wellness concepts
- Read the paper
- doi.org/10.1016/j.cnur.2009.06.009
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