Health Care for Women International

Health Care for Women International

Discipline	Women's studies
Language	English
Edited by	Eleanor Krassen Covan
Publication details
Former name(s)	Issues in Health Care of Women
History	1978–present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis (United States)
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	0.950 (2015)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Health Care Women Int.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	HCWIDQ
ISSN	0739-9332 (print) 1096-4665 (web)
LCCN	96648170
OCLC no.	806353656
Links
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Health Care for Women International is a monthly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering health care and related topics that concern women around the globe.

It is the official journal for Women's Health Issues and it is published by Taylor & Francis. Its editor-in-chief is Eleanor Krassen Covan (University of North Carolina at Wilmington).[1]

History

The journal was originally titled Issues in Health Care of Women (1978–1983).[2]

The editor-in-chief from 1983 to 2001 was Phyllis Stern (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing).[3]

Abstracting and indexing

• Ageline
• Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
• CSA Social Services Abstracts
• CSA Sociological Abstracts
• Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences
• EMCARE
• European Reference Index for the Humanities
• H.W. Wilson General Science Abstracts (GenSciAbs)
• H.W. Wilson General Science Index
• H.W. Wilson Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (LegalPeridodical)
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
• PAIS International
• PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts
• Scopus
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.950, ranking it 20th out of 40 journals in the category "Women's Studies" and 115th out of 153 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".[4]

See also

• List of women's studies journals

References

1. "About this journal: Aims and scope". Health Care for Women International. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
2. "Browse journal". Health Care for Women International. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
3. "Phyllis N. Stern Distinguished Lectureship". www.htdiary.com. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
4. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Women's Studies and Public, Environmental & Occupational Health". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2016.

External links

• Official website
• International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI)