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recognizes the importance of the study of gender
differences
recognizes multidisciplinary team approaches
includes the values and knowledge of women and their own experience
of health and illness
recognizes the diversity of women’s health needs over
the life cycle, and how these needs reflect differences in race,
class, ethnicity, culture, sexual preference, and levels of
education and access to medical care
includes the empowerment of women, as for all patients, to be
informed participants in their own health care.
It also
- preservation of wellness and
prevention of illness in women,
And includes screening, diagnosis, and management of conditions
which
are unique to women
are more common in women
are more serious in women
have manifestations, risk factors, or interventions which are
different in women.
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