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A 5 page research paper on the benefits to women of taking personal responsibility for their health. Based on a statement by Elizabeth Fee, the writer discusses this in terms of institutional limitations and discoveries, and in terms of the mental, physical and spiritual components of women's health. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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of womens health not as the absense of disease, but as the control over our own bodies and as the maintenance of physical and psychic integrity, then we are led
to a new and expanded conception of health" (Fee, 1983). Taking control over ones body remains problematic for women. Not only are there institutional problems in the way of
taking control, general misconceptions of how to diagnose and treat womens health problems, but self-denial in women themselves. For this reason, the womens health movement encourages women to take
control of their personal health, not only institutionally or clinically, but also spiritually. The leaders of the womens health movement are dedicated to making womens health
a public, as well as a private concern-which is expected to result in changing views on womens health in the professions, and also in providing a greater understanding of women
about their own health. Internationally, global conferences, such as the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo 1994), the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995) and the World Summit
for Social Development (Copenhagen 1995) have placed focus on these issues, particularly in the areas of misinformation about womens health and access to health care services (Correa, 1997).
In the research environment, women now have fighters in their corner. When Dr. Bernadine Healy was appointed chair of the National Institute of Health (NIH), she created
the Office of Research on Womens Health (ORWH). (Roach, 1996). Dr. Vivian W. Pinn was hired to head the office. "The office, launched in September 1990, had been
created in response to the growing outcry by women health advocates and members of Congress that federally supported health research failed to include women in research studies. It was widely
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