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The Women's Health Data Book
Edited by Jacqueline A. Horton, 125 pp, $24.95, ISSN 1049-3867, Washington, DC, Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, 1992.
Deborah I. Allen, MD, Reviewer
Long Hospital Indianapolis, Ind
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(5):568.
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The title of this book is entirely too dry for the insightful, comprehensive, well-done content of the book. After turning the first page, I was engrossed with its content, and it was indeed a pleasure to review. This book is a joint effort between the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, Mead Johnson Laboratories, and the Committee on Development of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Horton, the primary author and editor, is administrator of the Department of Research of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The publishers have indeed compiled much relevant information into a single publication that does a wonderful job of summarizing national data on a wide range of issues that will help us understand the health of the women we care for as family physicians in the 1990s.
This book is intended to be helpful to a broad variety of readers, including physicians, other health
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Footnotes
Section Editor, Michael L. Adler, MD, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
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