Talk:Women's health

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Article title should remain Women's health
A recent edit moved this article to Women's health issues. I reverted it because women's health is a common term used to refer to this area. It is also more general than Women's health issues (health can refer to the general state of health/wellness, rather than to specific issues or problems). Should delay splitting into subareas of women's health (health in general, issues, whatever), until the article is sufficiently large to warrant division. Zodon (talk) 03:01, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Scope
Imo, the scope of this page requires a careful rethink (per WP:SCOPE) as a first step to improvement. At the time of writing, the main definition of "Women's health" (ie, literally, the health *of women*, per ) seems to fit "Gynecology" (per ).

One possible reliable source is:

Good luck! 86.164.164.29 (talk) 10:45, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Added --Michael Goodyear (talk) 14:37, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The worst possible thing that happened to Women's health was to reduce it to gynaecology, leaving women very badly served in all other areas of health. You are correct that a more holistic approach is "Health of Women", but the title serves its purpose --Michael Goodyear (talk) 14:37, 14 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I've requested clarification of the definition/scope . 109.146.70.40 (talk) 13:02, 2 June 2015 (UTC) previously 86.164.164.29
 * To restrict this to gynecology would be a huge mistake. See opening statement on the page. The article, admittedly contributes very little. The biggest issue in women's health at present is that it is perceived as being only about reproduction, which serves women very badly, since they have all the same health issues as men in addition.--Michael Goodyear (talk) 16:35, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * This should be the flagship page of the Women's Health Wikiproject, an overarching article that ties in all the topics. It should be raised to at least GA if not FA. I made a start at tidying up. A template would be useful too. See list of articles categorised as Women's health on the project page. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 14:40, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Test
Test. Harej (talk) 15:28, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Images
I removed this image pro tem because it is unrelated to the text --Michael Goodyear (talk) 03:14, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Pre-review comments on GA nomination
''Note: Bluerasberry made the following comments while creating a GA review page, though he or she had no intention of actually reviewing the nomination. Hence, I have transferred the comments here to the article's talk page. The GA review page is being deleted so a genuine GA reviewer—who will open a review and complete it in full—can select the article for reviewing. Michael Goodyear, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but as the nomination is less than a day old, it shouldn't delay the ultimate review, though it may take a while for a reviewer to do said selection.'' BlueMoonset (talk) 03:52, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

1. Women's mental health is not addressed in this, and it should be.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  19:40, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree, and indeed there are theoretically so many aspects of health which affect women that one has to be somewhat selective. However, in this case I did actually address depressin. But I will review your resources.--Michael Goodyear (talk) 01:29, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * See also discussion of suicide. I have slightly extended the section on mental health and added some more recent references --Michael Goodyear (talk) 04:27, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

2. I am unable to provide any source which provides a general overview of women's mental health, but here is some coverage of some specialized concepts - All of these publications are old, but they are highly cited and do present the special needs of women in special cases. For this article to pass a "good article" review, mental health ought to be included.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  19:40, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

3. Personal safety is also a health issue as well as a social one. Women have more personal safety concerns than med do. Perhaps that should be treated as its own issue. I am not sure.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  19:40, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I have no argument with this, indeed intimate partner violence is very much a women's issue. As I see it, this is the flagship article of the project, which should direct readers to all the relevant areas. I have not quite decided where that fits best. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 01:29, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I added a link --Michael Goodyear (talk) 04:27, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

While not required references would be good in the lead. This would make the lead more stand alone and thus easier to translate into other languages. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:00, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I have tended to avoid this to date. Incidentally other language versions are surprisingly non existent. I think lead sections are for those not sufficiently interested in reading further. However they should reflect the subsequent text accurately and succinctly. By providing a detailed bibliography, such a reader could pursue the topic further. Its just one of those stylistic things and I prefer to be consistent in my GAs etc.! Just less clutter. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 17:40, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * As part of this effort a number of us are working to improve and reference leads of the EN articles for translation into other languages. Would be interested in adding this one to the list. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 18:09, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Interesting. I am mainly involved in the opposite process, bringing articles into WPen. What is the connection between references in leads and translation. In my experience it just adds more clutter in the References section when the same statement is cited in duplicate.--Michael Goodyear (talk) 20:56, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

White space at the top of the article
There's extra white space at the very top of the article that shouldn't be there. I think the sidebar template  is the problem, as deleting it gets rid of the extra white space. (I used the "show preview" feature to figure that out.) Obviously that's not an acceptable solution, so does anyone have an idea of how to fix it? AmericanLemming (talk) 08:01, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Interesting but is that big of a problem?--Michael Goodyear (talk) 23:19, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Curiously, on substituting a variety of other sidebars, some do - some don't.--Michael Goodyear (talk) 23:31, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

GA Log
Revisions reviewed January 6 2017. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 23:57, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

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History of women's health
This article doesn't have a separate section about how women's health has changed over time. This book might be a good source if someone wants to add historical information:

WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:49, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

The Globalize issue about "Cancer" section
The "Cancer" section seems to be about United States.


 * The sentance "By the 1950s the decline in uterine cancer left breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death till it was overtaken by lung cancer in the 1980s. All three cancers (lung, breast, uterus) are now declining in cancer death rates (Siegel et al. Figure 8)" uses the reference Siegel et al Cancer statistics, 2016. That reference is about United States, not about all the world.

--Wolfch (talk) 08:21, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

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Removing unsupported claim
Nobody provided citation to Nevertheless, there are several areas of health where women report earlier and more severe disease with poorer outcomes. for couple months now, I am going to remove the unsupported claim. Londondare (talk) 07:34, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

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