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Conceptualizing Women's Health: Discovering the Dimensions

Phyllis Noerager Stern

Parent-Child Department, School of Nursing, Indiana University

Once neatly compartmentalized to variables surrounding reproduction, women's health research has been broadened to include life-span dimensions such as caretaking, chronic illness, the impact of relationships, career opportunities, social status, cultural beliefs about health, and sexual orientation. In conceptualizing the complex interrelationships of women, their beliefs, their status, and the symbolic meaning of their health to their nexus and to society in general within social psychological and social structural contexts leaves us with as yet undiscovered limits of the variables. Whereas quantitative researchers give us endless detail, qualitative researchers tend to strive for broader vistas. From a qualitative analysis of selected literature, I have fashioned a conceptual framework of women's health.

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, 152-162 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/104973239600600202
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