Womens Behavioral Health by Ardis Hanson, Bruce Lubotsky Levin - 9783031582950

Womens Behavioral HealthA Public Health Perspective\nAuthor(s): Ardis Hanson, Bruce Lubotsky Levin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer International Publishing AG\nISBN-13: 9783031582950, 978-3031582950\nSynopsis\nThis book examines women's behavioral health (defined as alcohol, drug use, and mental health) problems from a population or public health perspective. It provides the current state of knowledge for womens behavioral health and examines the need for behavioral health services and implications for policy. It also reviews major issues in the organization, financing, and provision of womens behavioral health services.\n\nGlobal and national studies show that women are nearly twice as likely as men to have selected mental disorders. There also has been increasing attention to the social, behavioral, institutional, and economic determinants of health that result in service inequities for women in the United States c.