It is important that women keep themselves up to date with the latest advances in women’s health. Keeping themselves well versed with all the information and services that are currently available. Advances in our knowledge of women’s health has shown us now that women and men differ greatly on physiological basis and therefore need to be looked at different when considering treatments.
Some of the most important areas of women’s health will be covered in this article to include, diet, breast and ovarian cancer, heart disease and reproductive health (Birth control).
Looking at our diet is one of the most predominant ways to ensure good health. We know that over half of all women are overweight today and of that number a good many are classed as clinically obese. Aside from being a key factor for low self esteem and possibly more importantly, the knock-on effect of obesity has on health, it has strong links with conditions such as diabetes and infertility along with high blood pressure and heart disease. Adopting a healthy eating regime for women along with moderate daily exercise is something that should be encouraged if the aforementioned are to be avoided.
Female cancers have seen some success in treatments and diagnostics over the past few years, Breast cancer now has a better survival rate than ever before with early diagnosis up by 2 percent.
The same however cannot be said about ovarian cancer, which by nature has always been much harder to detect. It has very ambiguous and non-specific symptoms such as excess gas production, pelvic fullness and changes in weight. These symptoms are linked with various illnesses but should be discussed with your GP.
Heart disease is actually modern societies biggest killer of women and men but it is much more likely to kill a woman than a man therefore it is of utmost importance that women keep a careful eye on all heart disease triggers. As mentioned earlier diet and exercise and of course not smoking play a massive part ion combating this disease.
There have been many changes in reproductive health over the years the latest now is a choice of intramuscular injections of patches worn to prevent pregnancy. There is also a new birth control pill that has a slow release dispenser. It releases the hormone over 84 days as opposed to 21, which means a women will only menstruate 4 times a year.
Going to doctor is okay. However, sometimes women need a little more attention, a little more focus, a little more guidance and understanding. Here is where womens health care clinics offer invaluable womens health services. For all the free information you’ll need about women’s issues, please visit our website.