Hot Topics in Women's Health: News You can Use in Practice

Hot Topics in Women's Health: News You can Use in Practice

(or What do I tell my patient....or

...sister/mom/wife/niece when she asks?)

Joslyn W. Fisher, MD, MPH, FACP Associate Professor of Medicine & Medical Ethics

Baylor College of Medicine

Women's Health

? Encompasses all health issues experienced by women across the lifespan within the social context of their lives.

Objectives:

? Recognize diverse social determinants of women's health across the lifespan and identify gender differences in health.

? Summarize recent changes in clinical management strategies to provide updated evidence-based health care to women.

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Latest News: Across the Lifespan

HPV Contraception Gender based Violence Breast Cancer Screening Osteoporosis Heart Disease Menopause

Preventing Cervical Cancer?

A mother brings in her twins to your office? they are turning 12 years old this month. She asks if they need to get an HPV vaccine.

A. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends HPV vaccination starting at age 11 or 12 years.

B. There is no data to support HPV immunization in males below the age of 21 years old.

C. Your patient should let her kids decide once they are over the age of 26 years.

D. The twins have no insurance and the vaccine is too expensive so she should just skip it.

Preventing Cervical Cancer?

A mother brings in her twins to your office? they are turning 12 years old this month. She asks if they need to get an HPV vaccine.

A. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends HPV vaccination starting at age 11 or 12 years.

B. There is no data to support HPV immunization in males below the age of 21 years old.

C. Your sister should let her kids decide once they are over the age of 26 years.

D. You sister is uninsured and the vaccine is too expensive so she should just skip it.

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