Utah Women's Health Review
Poverty is a key driver of poor population health outcomes. Families or individuals in poverty are more likely to experience chronic conditions, including asthma and diabetes, less likely to have access to healthy food and walkable neighborhoods, and more likely to have limited access to medical care. Women are at an even greater risk of poverty, due to social conditions …
Objectives: Utah has the highest rates of depression and suicide in the US, despite high rates of antide-pressant prescriptions. People living at altitude are exposed to chronic hypobaric hypoxia, which may disrupt brain serotonin and bioenergetic function, to worsen depression and reduce selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) function …
In 2017, Utah Representative Brian King proposed a comprehensive sexual education bill. H.B. 215. This bill included an emphasis on teaching sexual consent, and permitted parents to choose abstinence-based, comprehensive, or no sexual education for their children …
In Utah, one in three women will experience some form of sexual violence (SV) during their lifetime, and one in eight women and one in 50 men will experience rape …
Postpartum depressive symptoms (PDS) can range from the “baby blues”—when for a short period of time after childbirth, a mother experiences mood swings, anxiety, sadness, and/or appetite/sleeping problems—to postpartum depression (PPD)—which involves similar signs and symptoms but is experienced more intensely and for a longer period of time, and may interfere with a mother’s ability to care for her baby and herself …
Most mothers know that breastfeeding and providing expressed mothers milk is best for babies and is the normal standard for infant feeding and nutrition …
The HealthyPeople initiatives use science-based objectives with the aim to improve health of Americans and disease prevention through awareness and improved understanding …
Milk banking has been around for over one hundred years. The first human milk bank opened in 1909 in Vienna, Austria. The first milk bank in the United States opened in 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts …
Adolescent pregnancy and births are at historic lows in both Utah and the U.S. While the efforts of local and national programs that have worked to achieve this rate decrease should be celebrated, efforts to reduce unwanted pregnancies among teens and support young women cannot become complacent …
Eating disorders, which include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, are psychological disorders where people experience abnormal or disturbed eating habits …
