We found this interesting story via the New York Times about two different studies relating to pregnancy and depression:
The first, published online by the journal Pediatrics, finds that a startling percentage of low-income, urban mothers show symptoms of postpartum depression. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center screened 198 mothers of children between the [...]
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Childbirth Difficulties for Sexual Assault Survivors
Here’s an interesting story we found at the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s website about a Norwegian study of rape survivors and childbirth:
Women who have been raped have much more difficulty in childbirth than their peers who have never suffered sexual abuse or violence, a new study shows.
“The challenging part seems to be in [...]
New STD Report: Young Women Most Vulnerable
A new report from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) looks at the rising rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) in the United States. While the report shows there are approximately 19 million new STD infections each year, the highest risk group for contracting STDs are young women between the ages of 15 [...]
Update: Domestic Violence Pre-existing Condition
Here’s an update to an earlier post we did about insurance companies discriminating against domestic violence survivors. The health care reform bill that recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives has a clause that prohibits this type of discrimination.
We also found an interesting blog post at Womenstake.org about people are taking [...]
STI Education and Testing in the News
Because of rising Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) rates, some local governments are planning on instituting some new policies. From The Daily Women’s Health Report:
Washington, D.C., officials are planning to make testing for sexually transmitted infections available at all public high schools in the coming school year, adding D.C. to a growing list of [...]
How Sexual Violence Impacts High Risk Behaviors and Reproductive Health
A new study by Sandra L. Martin and Rebecca J. Macy looks at sexual violence and how it impacts women’s behavioral and reproductive health. From Vawnet.org:
Adult female sexual violence survivors are more likely than other women to engage in unsafe sex practices, including having multiple sex partners, not negotiating condom use, having sex with [...]
Physical Abuse and HIV Risk
A new study published in May/June issue of the journal General Hospital Psychiatry, demonstrates a link between intimate partner violence and HIV infection.
The results showed that women who experience violence from their partners were more than three times as likely to have HIV infection as women who do not. In addition, almost 12 [...]
New Study: Health Care Providers and Female Victims of Abuse
Health News Digest reports on a new University of Pittsburgh study about health care workers and how they respond to victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV):
IPV focused training is considered valuable to health care providers. Those interviewed said that this specialized training contributes to their comfort, willingness and ability to help victims of abuse.
Study participants [...]
Violence and Abuse: The Hidden Healthcare Costs
From a new report from the Academy on Violence and Abuse:
Violence and abuse leads to as much as a 250 percent increase in healthcare utilization in adults who’ve been victimized at some time in their lives, resulting in increased healthcare expenditures of up to $750 billion annually or 37.5 percent of all healthcare [...]
