In this second part of Chapter 5, we continue our focus on issues specific to women’s health and discuss gaps in supporting pregnancy from preconception to postpartum care. Maternal Morbidity: Behind the eight ball In the USA, after decades of decline, the number of women who die from complications due to pregnancy and childbirth started …
In this fifth installment of our series “The Care Gap – Rethinking Women’s Health in Medicine,” we explore female-specific health issues which often present a complex web of symptoms that are frequently misunderstood or dismissed by healthcare professionals. In researching this area, we found so many inequities, we decided to split this chapter into two …