Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's Health

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WikiProject Women's Health

AWikiProject focusing on articles related to women's health, including related social and political issues.

Announcements [edit]

• Request for comments on proposal to add Psychological and emotional aspects of health conditions. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 10:09, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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Tasks

Here is an index of redlinks related to women's health and resources for creating those articles. Please click on each index to see the available tasks related to that subject area.

• Women's health misinformation
• Sex and gender differences
• Women's health by country
• Menstruation
• Breastfeeding
• Abortion
• Pregnancy
• Gynecological cancers
• List articles of importance to women's health
• Gynecological surgery
• Violence against women
• Uncategorized articles
• Wikidata lists of missing articles

Here is the Image wishlist for missing images related to women's health.

Metrics

Assessment stats

Women's health articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	1	1	1			6
GA	6	6	8	10			30
B	36	55	106	136		33	366
C	23	64	192	313		177	769
Start	11	50	193	489		341	1,084
Stub	2	2	53	251		186	494
List	4	2	10	24		4	44
Category				3	275		278
Disambig					2		2
File					4		4
Project			1		12		13
Template					110		110
NA	1	3	8	14	66		92
Other					20		20
Assessed	86	183	572	1,241	489	741	3,312
Unassessed						18	18
Total	86	183	572	1,241	489	759	3,330

Resources

Templates[edit]

Talk page template[edit]

Use this template on the talk page of an article that would be of interest to those participating in this project. This is necessary to generate the metric in the Assessment stats on this page:
{{WikiProject Women's Health|class=|importance=}}

Stub template[edit]

Use this template to identify a Women's Health stub article:
{{Womens-health-stub}}

This women's health related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Scope navbox[edit]

A navbox template has been created to link together articles relevant to women's health. This template exists in two forms, a horizontal bar Template:Women's health and a sidebar Template:Women's health sidebar and can be added to key articles where appropriate. Articles relevant to women's health should also have [[Category:Women's health]] added.
{{Women's health}}
{{Template:Women's health sidebar}}

Project invitation[edit]

This template can be placed on the talk pages of other editors who might be interested in the Project: {{WikiProject Women's Health invite}} Just make sure you put your sig ~~~~ inside or outside the template to make the invitation more personal.

Hello, WikiProject Women's Health! We would be delighted if would like to participate in WikiProject Women's Health. This the effort to improve the coverage of women's health topics on the English Wikipedia. We hope you will be interest in becoming part of the project. Please add your name to our Project page and look at the talk page to find out what we're up to and what we have accomplished on behalf of women. Please contact me if you have any questions. Thank you very much.

Userbox[edit]

If you would like to identify yourself as part of the project or a supporter of the project you can put this userbox on your user page: {{User WikiProject Women's Health}} which results in:

This user is a member or supporter of WikiProject Women's Health.

Reliable sources

Given below is the list of some reliable sources related to women's health. For more resources related to women's health, please go to The Wikipedia Library, an open research hub for accessing reliable resources for improving Wikipedia.

Female anatomy and physiology[edit]

• Betts, J. Gordon (2017). Anatomy & physiology. Houston, Texas: OpenStax. ISBN 978-1-938168-13-0.
• Gray's anatomy - the anatomical basis of clinical practice (Forty-first ed.). [Philadelphia]: Churchill Livingstone. 2016. ISBN 978-0-7020-5230-9. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
• Netter, Frank H. (2018). Atlas of human anatomy (Seventh ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders W.B. ISBN 978-0-323-39322-5.

Sexual and reproductive health[edit]

• "Reproductive health". www.who.int. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "CDC Division of Reproductive Health". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 13 December 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Public Health at a Glance - Reproductive Health". web.worldbank.org. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Reproductive Health - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)". Sida. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Reproductive health". Australian government. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Sexual and reproductive health". UNHCR. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Sexual and reproductive health". CARE International. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)". srhr.org. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Sexual & reproductive health". United Nations Population Fund. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Compendium of Sexual & Reproductive Health Resources for Healthcare Providers". National Coalition for Sexual Health. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Sexual and reproductive health and rights". pmnch.who.int. Retrieved 8 January 2023.

Pregnancy and lactation[edit]

• "Maternal and reproductive health". www.who.int. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed®). National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. 2006.

Academic publications[edit]

• Danforth's obstetrics and gynecology (10th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2008. ISBN 978-0781769372.
• Berek & Novak's gynecology (15th ed.). Philadelphia PA: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4511-2918-2.
• Creasy and Resnik's maternal-fetal medicine : principles and practice (Seventh ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Health Sciences. 2014. ISBN 0-323-18665-3.
• Current diagnosis & treatment : obstetrics & gynecology (12th ed.). [New York]: John Wiley & Sons. 2019. ISBN 978-0-07-183390-5.
• Dewhurst's textbook of obstetrics & gynaecology (Ninth ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. 2018. ISBN 978-1-119-21143-3.
• Hacker & Moore's essentials of obstetrics & gynecology (Sixth ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Health Sciences. 2016. ISBN 978-0-323-38852-8.
• "Sexual health". www.who.int. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
• "Sexual Health:CDC". www.cdc.gov. 25 June 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2023.

Mental health[edit]

• "Women's Mental Health: An evidence based review" (PDF). World Health Organization. WHO. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
• Zender, Robynn; Olshansky, Ellen (1 September 2009). "Women's Mental Health: Depression and Anxiety". Nursing Clinics. 44 (3): 355–364. doi:10.1016/j.cnur.2009.06.002. ISSN 0029-6465. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
• "APA PsycNet". psycnet.apa.org. Retrieved 6 March 2023.

Navboxes

Anatomy[edit]

Physiology[edit]

Reproduction[edit]

Gynecology[edit]

Obstetrics[edit]

Birth control[edit]

Pharmacology[edit]

Sociology[edit]

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