Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Mental Health and What It Taught Us

The COVID-19 pandemic presented new and unique challenges in many areas of life. Women in the US were impacted differently than men in some of these areas, including work-life changes, home and family changes, and responsibility for problem-solving. The purpose of this section is to explore how these changes affected women’s mental health. We focus …

7 Domains of Women’s Health: Ovarian Cancer Landscape Post Roe v Wade

With the overturning of Roe v Wade by the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, patients, advocates, clinicians, and researchers have braced themselves for the long-term negative impact on women’s health. The public and political discussion typically turns to abortion access and reproductive rights, with seldom consideration and conversation regarding how this decision may negatively …

Interpersonal Violence

Introduction Interpersonal violence is a global phenomenon that cuts across the life-course – child abuse, intimate partner violence (IPV) and elder mistreatment – with both public and private implications for almost one in three women, and countless other victims worldwide.1 In the U.S., the domestic violence movement emerged in the media, law, policy, research, and …

Impact of Nature on Women’s Spiritual Health and Well-Being: Nature as Resistance for Women in Fostering Spiritual Health and Well-being

Historically, spiritual health is often linked to religiosity. However, in this article, we have chosen to distinguish spiritual health from religion, making the case that spirituality is about being at peace with the internal self rather than being compelled by external influences. Michaelson et al (2019) contended spiritual health is comprised of four domains: 1) …