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Women’s Health Care: State of the Art and New Challenges
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Women’s Health Care: State of the Art and New Challenges

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Women's Health Care".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2024 | Viewed by 687

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Yashuhiko Ebina

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Department of Midwiferry, Maternal Nursing and Women’s Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 0600812, Japan
Interests: obstetrics and gynaecology; women’s mental health; cancer prevention and awareness; pregnant women at high social risk; gynecologic oncology; cytodiagnostics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to our Special Issue on research related to women's health and the furthering of evidence for women’s life-long wellbeing.

Health issues involving women include mental health problems, particularly postpartum depression, and cervical cancer, a leading cause of death in young women. Currently, we are seeking ways to solve these problems through the framework of health science rather than medicine.

In this Special Issue, we would like to highlight a wide range of research achievements on health issues concerning women. In particular, we invite wide-ranging submissions not only from the medical scientists but also from researchers related to the nursing profession and healthcare. Research related to multi-profession is particularly desirable.

Prof. Dr. Yashuhiko Ebina
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • women’s health
  • mental health
  • high-risk pregnancy
  • postpartum depression
  • perimenstrual syndrome
  • menopausal disorders
  • cancer prevention
  • HPV vaccine
  • puberty
  • sex education

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Identifying Predictor Variables for a Composite Risk Prediction Tool for Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Modified Delphi Study
by Stephanie Cowan, Sarah Lang, Rebecca Goldstein, Joanne Enticott, Frances Taylor, Helena Teede and Lisa J. Moran
Healthcare 2024, 12(13), 1361; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12131361 - 8 Jul 2024
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A composite cardiometabolic risk prediction tool will support the systematic identification of women at increased cardiometabolic risk during pregnancy to enable early screening and intervention. This study aims to identify and select predictor variables for a composite risk prediction tool for cardiometabolic risk [...] Read more.
A composite cardiometabolic risk prediction tool will support the systematic identification of women at increased cardiometabolic risk during pregnancy to enable early screening and intervention. This study aims to identify and select predictor variables for a composite risk prediction tool for cardiometabolic risk (gestational diabetes mellitus and/or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy) for use in the first trimester. A two-round modified online Delphi study was undertaken. A prior systematic literature review generated fifteen potential predictor variables for inclusion in the tool. Multidisciplinary experts (n = 31) rated the clinical importance of variables in an online survey and nominated additional variables for consideration (Round One). An online meeting (n = 14) was held to deliberate the importance, feasibility and acceptability of collecting variables in early pregnancy. Consensus was reached in a second online survey (Round Two). Overall, 24 variables were considered; 9 were eliminated, and 15 were selected for inclusion in the tool. The final 15 predictor variables related to maternal demographics (age, ethnicity/race), pre-pregnancy history (body mass index, height, history of chronic kidney disease/polycystic ovarian syndrome, family history of diabetes, pre-existing diabetes/hypertension), obstetric history (parity, history of macrosomia/pre-eclampsia/gestational diabetes mellitus), biochemical measures (blood glucose levels), hemodynamic measures (systolic blood pressure). Variables will inform the development of a cardiometabolic risk prediction tool in subsequent research. Evidence-based, clinically relevant and routinely collected variables were selected for a composite cardiometabolic risk prediction tool for early pregnancy. Full article
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