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BMC Women's Health: highlights of 2017

BMC Women’s Health has had yet another productive year, publishing important and insightful research relating to matters of women’s physical, mental and emotional health. Here we have selected five highlighted articles to celebrate the research published in 2017.

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Content type: Research article
| 25 June 2018

Gynaecologists’ and general surgeons’ preference for the features of integrated theatres: a discrete choice experiment

Authors: Tom K. Holland, Stephen Morris and Alfred Cutner
Content type: Research article
| 22 June 2018

Factors affecting trust in healthcare among middle-aged to older Korean American women

Authors: Hye Chong Hong, Hyeonkyeong Lee, Eileen G. Collins, Chang Park, Lauretta Quinn and Carol Estwing Ferrans
Content type: Research article
| 22 June 2018

Predictors of female sexual dysfunction: a systematic review and qualitative analysis through gender inequality paradigms

Authors: Megan McCool-Myers, Melissa Theurich, Andrea Zuelke, Helge Knuettel and Christian Apfelbacher
Content type: Research article
| 20 June 2018

Female sex workers experiences of using contraceptive methods: a qualitative study in Kenya

Authors: Rhoune Ochako, Jerry Okal, Steven Kimetu, Ian Askew and Marleen Temmerman
Content type: Research article
| 20 June 2018

Consequences of obstetric fistula in sub Sahara African countries, from patients’ perspective: a systematic review of qualitative studies

Authors: Debrework Tesgera Bashah, Abebaw Gebeyehu Worku and Mezgebu Yitayal Mengistu

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Content type: Research article
| 26 March 2014

Magnitude and risk factors of abortion among regular female students in Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia

Authors: Amha Admasie Gelaye, Kalemelekot Nigussie Taye and Tesfa Mekonen
Content type: Research article
| 8 June 2001

Penis size: Survey of female perceptions of sexual satisfaction

Authors: Russell Eisenman
Content type: Research article
| 12 September 2007

Knowledge and use of emergency contraception among women in the Western Cape province of South Africa: a cross-sectional study

Authors: Landon Myer, Regina Mlobeli, Di Cooper, Jennifer Smit and Chelsea Morroni
Content type: Research article
| 5 July 2013

Understanding why women seek abortions in the US

Authors: M Antonia Biggs, Heather Gould and Diana Greene Foster
Content type: Research article
| 26 March 2012

Prevalence, symptoms and management of uterine fibroids: an international internet-based survey of 21,746 women

Authors: Anne Zimmermann, David Bernuit, Christoph Gerlinger, Matthias Schaefers and Katharina Geppert

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BMC Women's Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the health and wellbeing of adolescent girls and women, with a particular focus on the physical, mental, and emotional health of women in developed and developing nations. The journal welcomes submissions on women's public health issues, health behaviours, breast cancer, gynecological diseases, mental health and health promotion.

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Tovah Honor Aronin, Biomed Central

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Sherif A. El-Nashar, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Jane Fisher, Monash University
Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, University College London
Marc Schwartz, Georgetown University

Sherif El-Nashar, Section Editor

Sherif El-Nashar, MBBCh, MSc, MS is an Associate Professor of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and is an attending physician at the Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, MacDonald Women’s Hospital, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland Ohio.

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