1. Menopause: life event or medical disease?
- Author
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Blackwell JT and Blackwell DA
- Subjects
- Adaptation, Psychological, Estrogen Replacement Therapy, Female, Humans, Menopause drug effects, Middle Aged, Nurse Clinicians, Life Change Events, Menopause physiology, Menopause psychology, Women's Health
- Abstract
Women throughout the world experience menopause, but it is often difficult to determine what it means and how it is perceived by women. A dilemma exists as to whether menopause should be medicalized or treated as a normal life event. The effects of this decision on the woman and the role of the advanced practice nurse in assisting the woman through this time of change are presented.
- Published
- 1997
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