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Women’s Health
Eileen Hoffman, MD, FACP
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
NYU School of Medicine
Women’s health
• Diseases, disorders and conditions that
are unique to, more prevalent among,
or far more serious in women, or for
which there are different risk factors of
interventions for women than men
(ORWH…and expanded by NAWHME)
• Limited to difference
• Reductionist and organ-based
Old model of science
Old model of medicine
• At best is “multidisciplinary”
Medical
Practitioner
Relational
Field
Mental Health
Medical Mental Health Specialist
Practitioner Specialist
Co-location Integration
Reproduction
› Reproduction +
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New Paradigm
Interdisciplinary Field
Reproductive & Developmental Plasticity
Summary
• Women’s Health, as a field, went through
developmental stages
Reproductive health
Sex differences based on male norm