Women''s Health Psychology is the first comprehensive collection ever published to consider the developmental, reproductive, and sociocultural contexts of health decision-making and behavior for women. It provides current, expert advice to help policy makers, researchers, and clinicians make the best decisions concerning topics including:

• The Context of Women''s Health: history of women''s healthcare, employment and women''s health, and the effects of intimate partner violence
• Health Challenges: smoking, alcohol, eating disorders, and sleep
• Reproductive Health: premenstrual dysphoric disorder, the stress of infertility, psychiatric symptoms and pregnancy, and menopause
• Disability and Chronic Conditions: women''s responses to disability, experiencing cancer, the psychology of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and rheumatic, heart, and Alzheimer''s diseases

Women''s Health Psychology is the first comprehensive collection ever published to consider the developmental, reproductive, and sociocultural contexts of health decision-making and behavior for women. It provides current, expert advice to help policy makers, researchers, and clinicians make the best decisions concerning topics including:

• The Context of Women''s Health: history of women''s healthcare, employment and women''s health, and the effects of intimate partner violence
• Health Challenges: smoking, alcohol, eating disorders, and sleep
• Reproductive Health: premenstrual dysphoric disorder, the stress of infertility, psychiatric symptoms and pregnancy, and menopause
• Disability and Chronic Conditions: women''s responses to disability, experiencing cancer, the psychology of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and rheumatic, heart, and Alzheimer''s diseases

Women''s Health Psychology is the first comprehensive collection ever published to consider the developmental, reproductive, and sociocultural contexts of health decision-making and behavior for women. It provides current, expert advice to help policy makers, researchers, and clinicians make the best decisions concerning topics including:

• The Context of Women''s Health: history of women''s healthcare, employment and women''s health, and the effects of intimate partner violence
• Health Challenges: smoking, alcohol, eating disorders, and sleep
• Reproductive Health: premenstrual dysphoric disorder, the stress of infertility, psychiatric symptoms and pregnancy, and menopause
• Disability and Chronic Conditions: women''s responses to disability, experiencing cancer, the psychology of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and rheumatic, heart, and Alzheimer''s diseases