Womens Health Policy Gender Based Research and Postpartum Depression 12 1 2010

Calvin P. Boyd MD is an obstetrician/gynecologist and graduate candidate in the Masters of Public Health Program at the University of New Mexico Medical School. This powerpoint presentation is the culmination of a research project evaluating gender-based clinical conditions and postpartum depression. Policy directed towards women's health must take into account certain gender-based realities and the realization that male and female health policies are not necessarily equivalent,