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Assessing, diagnosing, and treating disease risk factors specific to women. Distinguishing female gender differences in presentation and progression of health problems and responses to pharmacological agents and other therapies. Assessing social and physical environmental health risks, including teratogens, that impact childbearing.
Scholars in the history of medicine had developed some study of women in the field—biographies of pioneering women physicians were common prior to the 1960s—and study of women in medicine took particular root with the advent of the women's movement in the 1960s, and in conjunction with the women's health movement. [citation needed]
The Welfare of Women global health programme is a new initiative by The Global Library of Women's Medicine and is an attempt to try and provide health professionals globally with immediate access to the latest, state-of-the-art, information on women's health and on the 'best practice' management of relevant clinical conditions. [citation needed]
The development of Intensive Care Units was established by 'father of modern intensive care' Max Harry Weil. the ICU, the ability to be able to specialize in one field of nursing and obtain an advanced nursing degree (i.e. nurse practitioner degree) become available.
However, efforts have been made by the U.S. government to expand women's health research and the inclusion of women in clinical studies. In 2016, the United States Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act which codified into law the strengthening of women's health research through government funding. [77]
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A 2009 study done at Harvard Medical School with Cambridge Health Alliance by cofounders of Physicians for a National Health Program, a pro-single payer lobbying group, showed that nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with a lack of patient health insurance. The study also found that uninsured, working Americans have an approximately 40% ...
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