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Recently Published Articles
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Basic Study for the Quantitative Diagnosis of Edema Focusing on Ultrasound Propagation Time Waveform Information
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Integrative Medicine Approaches in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Painful Bladder Syndrome and Infertility in Women Health
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The Preventive Effect of Dietary Antioxidants on Viral Infection (Coronavirus Disease-2019, Influenza and Human Papillomavirus) and the Development of Cervical Carcinogenesis
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Determining Factors Associated with Sexual Behavior and Undesired Outcomes in Urban,Young, Adult Female Populations: A Comparative Study
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Endometrial Cancer in the United States: A Review of the Current Literature
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Blighted Ovum: A Case Report
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Preconception Care: Existing Knowledge in Karnataka, India and Need for an Intervention
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Hysteroscopy Versus Laparoscopy in the Management of Isthmocele: A Review of the Literature
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A Pilot Study on the Effect of Massage on Stress among Female Japanese University Students
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Promoting Mother-to-Baby Attachment to Prevent Postpartum Depression: An Intervention Study
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Granuloma Annulare in Women: Evaluating the Annular Configuration in the Context of Germline Repair
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Development and Significance of “Mamin”: A Child-Care Record-Keeping Mobile Application for Parents
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From Menstruation to Menopause: Have We Medicalised the Physiology of Normalcy? (Part 1)
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Breast Cancer Screening and the Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
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Potential Efficacy of Anti-PD-1 or PD-L1 Antibody Treatments for Gynecologic Cancers
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What Women Should Know About Alcohol Abuse and the Sexual Exploitation of Females of all Ages (Part 3)
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If You Think Alcohol Consumption is Not Harmful, Think Again! (Part 2)
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Domestic Voilence
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Iron Deficiency in Women
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Chronic Diseases during Pregnancy and Birth Outcome: A Study Based on Tertiary Hospital of Mumbai
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Towards Increasing Contraceptive Prevalence in Burkina Faso through Task Sharing
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Shared Decision-Making Regarding Place of Birth–Mission Impossible or Mission Accomplished?
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Inclusion of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in the Family of Therapeutic Glycoproteins
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Cesarean Section and Associated Surgeries: Feasibility and Surgical Outcomes
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Cesarean Hysterectomy for Abnormal Placentation Using Balloon Occlusion of the Common Iliac Artery: Case Series
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Efficacy of a Multiple Health Behavior Change Intervention on Women’s Health Outcomes
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The Current State of Professional Midwives in Japan and their Traditional Virtues
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Measuring Climacteric Symptoms: A Community based Study among Lotha Females of Nagaland
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Human Trafficking
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Risk Factors and Barriers to Male Involvement in the Choice of Family Planning Methods in the Buea Health District, South West Region, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Semi-Urban Area
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Impact of the Poly Implant Prosthesis Breast Implants Recall in Women With Breast Reconstruction: A South-Eastern French Cross-Sectional Survey Nested in a Prospective Cohort
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Mother’s Experiences and Perceptions of a Continuous Caring Model with Fathers after Caesarean Section: A Qualitative Study
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Depressive Symptoms, Correlates, and the Marital Relationship in Women with Breast Cancer in Saudi Arabia
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Quality of Antenatal Care and Outcome of Pregnancy in a Semi-Urban Area in Fako Division, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Study
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Increased Reporting of Cases of Gender-Based Violence: A Retrospective Review of a Prevention Programme in Dharavi, Mumbai
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It is Time to Evaluate Human Chorionic Gonadotropin for the Treatment of Preterm Births
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Women and Heart Disease: Understanding Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease
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Prevalence of Urogynaecological Symptoms in Survivors of Cervical Cancer in a Tertiary Care Gynaecologic Oncology Clinic of a Developing Country
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About the Journal
Women’s Health – Open Journal (WHOJ) is an online open access journal which deals with the prevalent health, psychological and social issues, specific to a woman.
The journal aims at disseminating health issues such as menstruation, contraception, maternal health, childbirth, menopause, and breast cancer as well as creating awareness regarding the social stigma such as sexual education, contraception, abortion and discrimination faced by a woman in the society.
Having always been a thought-provoking subject, women’s health and related issues will help spread social awareness pertaining to the qualms of gender as a social determinant of health and issues specific to human female anatomy. This will further help in understanding the areas where biological sex differences between women and men exist.
The World Health Organization emphasizes gender being a social determinant of health and exposes all the initiatives required to handle the health issues of a woman more than a moral issue.
Openventio is determined to propagate all the detailed issues related to the women’s health through its open journal to the female community for its welfare.
Aims and Scope
Women’s Health – Open Journal (WHOJ) is dedicated to the open dissemination and robust discussion of the health issues of women, covering a wide array of subjects as given below:
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- Breast cancer
- Reproductive disorders
- Women’s safety
- Abortion and its management
- Aging
- Oral contraception in women
- Premature ovarian failure
- Obesity and pregnancy
- Disability
- Women’s psychology and other related disorders
- Menopause
- Menopausal hormone therapy
- Atrial fibrillation
- Venous thromboembolism
- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
- Lactation
- Ovarian cancer
- Endometrial cancer
- Genitourinary syndrome of menopause
- Gynecologic oncology
- Women’s healthcare
- Women’s edema
Submissions towards this journal may be range from the very basic women’s health to novel advancements.
The audience of WHOJ encourages physicians, nursing practitioners, women’s health specialists, gynecologists, obstetricians, oncologists, cardiologists, therapists, academicians and students to share their ideas.
The journal welcomes all types of articles such as original research, review, case-report, mini-review, editorial, short-communication, book-review, opinion, commentary, letter to the editor, conference, proceedings, technical report, errata, and illustrations.
We are open to receive comments and corrections to improve the quality of our journal.
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Integrative Medicine Approaches in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Painful Bladder Syndrome and Infertility in Women Health
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Chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) is one of the common diseases in urology, gynecology, and gastroenterology. CPPS is a multifactorial disorder where pain may originate in any of the urogynecology, gastrointestinal, pelvic musculoskeletal, or nervous systems. The aim of this article is to sensitize general observation for all integrative medicine practitioner to analyze data for a best interdisciplinary approaches-oriented results for health orientation. Indeed, CPPS could be severe enough to limit functioning, unrelated to menstrual cycle, pregnancy, local trauma, or pelvic operations. This syndrome is one of the diseases shared by urology and gynecology. Its frequency is between 3% and 10%, and it is more frequent among women. The costs of treating CPPS were estimated at about $880 million annually. About 15% of women reported loss of workdays and 45% reported decreased work efficiency. This review aims at presenting an interdisciplinary overview on CPPS patients focusing on links between irritable bowel syndrome, painful bladder syndrome and infertility, to illustrate the relevance of integrative medicine. We propose an integrative approach to treating the diverse symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) by combining the benefits of and need for pharmacotherapy with known complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies to provide IBS patients with the best treatment outcome achievable.
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Complementary; Alternative; Integrative; Therapies; Interventions; Nutrition; Antioxidants; Herbs; Supplements; Biofeedback; Phytotherapy osteopathy; Acupuncture.
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Basic Study for the Quantitative Diagnosis of Edema Focusing on Ultrasound Propagation Time Waveform Information
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Objective
We conducted a research on a simple diagnosis of edema. We aimed to develop a safe and inexpensive method using ultrasound. Because B-mode imaging systems are expensive and specialized, we focused on the ultrasound propagation time waveform information.
Experiment
Experiments were conducted using a custom-made ultrasonic transducer. Measurements were performed on individuals with and without edema, and the results are discussed in this paper based on propagation time waveform information and frequency analysis.
Summary
Based on the results, we found three indices with a high possibility of understanding the state of edema. The first index was edema thickness, the second was the standard deviation of edema thickness, and the third was the shape of the frequency spectrum of the ultrasound propagation time waveform. The results indicated that the presence of edema can be easily and quickly determined by determining the thickness of the edema at the measurement point near the ankle (measurement point D) on the front surface of the lower limbs and performing frequency analyses.
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Edema; Quantitative diagnosis of edema; Ultrasound; Ultrasound propagation time waveform information.
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The Right to Abortion in North Macedonia
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Equitable access to safe abortion is part of the corpus of human rights. Providing women with access to safe abortion means protection and realization of one of their fundamental human rights. However, around the world, even nowadays, women face not only legal obstacles, but as well stigmatization and conviction against fulfillment of the right to abortion. In North Macedonia there a multiple type of barriers and large inequalities related to the accessibility and availability of reproductive healthcare
services. Women with low socio-economic status are mostly affected. The need for contraception has not been met and reproductive healthcare services are unevenly distributed across the country.
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Laws; Abortion; Safe; Women’s sexual and reproductive rights; Healthcare services.
Surrogacy: A Novelty Concept in North Macedonia
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Surrogacy has existed since ancient times. Depending on the way of creating an embryo, two types of surrogacy differ, traditional and gestational. When it comes to monetary compensation, two types of surrogacy exist, altruistic and commercialized. A lot of questions come to light such as: Is the altruistic surrogacy a humane gesture for all contracted parties? What if the mother changes her mind? Do the babies born of surrogacy mothers have rights? In North Macedonia, surrogacy was introduced for
the first time in 2014 in the amended Law on Biomedicine and Assisted Fertilization. It was a novelty having in mind that in the Law of 2008 the surrogacy as a practice was outlawed. The amended law applies the term gestational mother and provides a
liberal stance, but many provisions are unclear.
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Laws; Gestational carrier; Commercialization; Altruism; Child rights; Health consequences.
What is Measured Matters and What Matters should be Measured
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Determining Factors Associated with Sexual Behavior and Undesired Outcomes in Urban,Young, Adult Female Populations: A Comparative Study
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Background
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted pregnancies affect adolescent females annually. This study’s objective was to determine factors leading to disproportionate risk of STIs and unplanned pregnancies utilizing a survey to compare a presumed high-risk urban female population with an age-matched expected low-risk urban female population.
Methods
Adolescent women ages 18-24 were surveyed during 2017 utilizing a qualtrics survey. The survey was given at a local urban university and participating students received research credit. The survey was also given at an urban Emergency Department (ED) using an iPad to participants during their visit. The main outcomes measured were STI and unplanned pregnancy rates.
Results
The ED cohort had higher rates of chlamydia (52% vs 5%), gonorrhea (20% vs 0%), trichomoniasis (30% vs 2%), pregnancy (60% vs 2%), and perceived themselves to be a higher-risk for pregnancy (3.4 vs 1.9) than the University cohort. They were younger the first time they had vaginal sex (15.6 vs 16.3-years), though median age of first oral sex was similar between groups. The ED cohort
was older (21.4-years-old vs 19.1-years-old) and more likely to be non-white (64% vs 6%). There were no differences between the cohorts in regard to educational background and sexual orientation. After adjustments were made, the University cohort was more likely to use condoms and had a lower rate of lifetime partners.
Conclusion
Young, urban females use condoms and birth control less frequently and have more male partners than an age-matched university population.
Keywords
Young; Urban; Females; STI; Sexual behavior.
Sexual Violence and Victim Blaming in Nigeria
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Aims and Objectives
To determine the trend and pattern of sexual violence and victim blaming in Nigeria, which is associated with a range of health consequences, to publish the trend and proffer solutions on how to stem the tide.
Methods
Questionnaires were administered to individuals physically by hand as well as electronically via online social media groups.
Results
In this study carried out between July 2019 and August 2020, the opinion of 251 respondents comprising 153 males (61%) and 98 females (39%) between ages 23 and 60 years, were sought concerning who to blame in a sexual violence event: 150 (60%) comprising 120 males (45%) and 30 females (15%) blamed the victim: 80 (31%) comprising 26 males (10%) and 54 females (21%)
blamed the perpetrators, while 21 (9%) comprising 7 males (3%) and 14 females (6%) were indifferent.
Conclusion
Victim blaming is prevalent in Nigeria and this has been one of the major factors that make sexual violence the fastest growing crime in this most populated Sub-Saharan African Country.
Keywords
Sexual violence; Victim blaming; Nigeria.
