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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 …

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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 …

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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) …

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Understanding Menopause and Sexual Function from the Biological and Hormonal Perspective

Background Sexual health, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a “state of physical, emotional, mental and social wellbeing related to sexuality; not merely the absence of dysfunction or infirmity.”1 Sexuality, an expression of our sexual health, is an inherently human trait and a basic human right that applies to all individuals. Unfortunately, …

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Pregnancy as a Window to Women’s Future Health: An Essay

It has long been recognized that optimal pregnancy outcomes, namely an uncomplicated full-term vaginal delivery for mother of a normal healthy child, are most likely to occur in the maternal age decade from late teens through late twenties. It is not by accident that this is also the decade at which humans are at their …

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Full Symposium Recording 2023

Full Agenda and Timestamps————————————– 0:00 – Welcome & Introduction– Presented by: Kathleen Digre, MD (Director, Center of Excellence in Women’s Health) & Karen Schliep, PhD, MSPH (Editor in Chief, Utah Women’s Health Review) 9:58 – The Inequitable Cost of Beauty– Introduction: Caren Frost, PhD, MPH– Presented by: Jasmine A. McDonald, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of …

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Poster Session 2023

Are Medical and Mental Health Professionals Aware of Protective Factors Which Reduce the Risk of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders? presented by Monica Ashton (Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah Graduate Program, Department of Social Work) The Association Between Pre-Pregnancy PCOS and PPD Among Hispanic Versus Non-Hispanic Women presented by Adriele Fugal, MSPH IUD …

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