Potential Risks and Factors of Women's Health Promotion

Dear Colleagues,

In addition to diseases shared by both sexes, there are a number of illnesses and injuries that are primarily associated with women. These health problems are less likely to be detected and treated because of the narrow framework used in considering health care for women that results from the lack of awareness of both the recipients and providers regarding the extent of women's health care needs and their requirements for comprehensive care. Worldwide, women are either not aware of such health care needs; they are aware but tend to ignore these needs because of their demanding role responsibilities, workload, and other caregiving activities; or they have been prevented from seeking health care and from maintaining their health by limited resources and structural constraints. Among the preventive strategies adopted to counteract cervical cancer the only available instrument are vaccination and screening, and only a little percentage of socially deprived women adhere to these preventive practices. Furthermore, the exclusive breastfeeding is a major topic to give short and long time benefit on the health of children and several attitude by healthcare workers and mothers can have a particular role on breastfeeding attitude. Innovative surgical technique and drugs can have a higher impact to reduce women burden of disease. Only a little core of women are familiar with results of such intervention and their adoption among women with different deprivation level can have a great impact on women’s health. Communication strategies should be also a therapeutic instruments for hard to reach women and their effectiveness should be evaluated.

This Topical Collection seeks research papers on various aspects of women’s health such as breastfeeding, HPV and gynecologic diseases. Especially we encourage the submission of interdisciplinary work and multi-country collaborative research. We welcome original research papers using different study designs as well as systematic reviews and meta-analysis.

Prof. Alessandra Casuccio
Dr. Vincenzo Restivo
Dr. Claudio Costantino
Collection Editors

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