Women’s Midlife Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers original and review articles focused on the physical and mental health of women during midlife, including articles on aging, reproductive aging and their inter-relationship. The journal focuses on research that provides new insights into the health transitions that occur during midlife, welcoming research that examines the vulnerabilities and opportunities during this life stage and their consequences for healthy aging. Read more
Thematic Series: Structural Racism and Women in their Midlife
This series highlights the effects of structural racism on women in their midlife, and includes topics such as disparities in reproductive ageing and midlife health between Black and White women, the impact on incarcerated midlife women, and more. Watch our special webinars that discuss articles in our thematic series on structural racism in midlife health. The first discussing “Disparities in Reproductive Aging and Midlife Health between Black and White women” and “Taking Action to Advance the Study of Race and Ethnicity” that occurred on October 6th. The second discusses “Disparities in Reproductive Aging and Midlife Health between Black and White women” and “Taking Action to Advance the Study of Race and Ethnicity” which occurred on October 28th.
Thematic Series: Disability in Midlife
This series highlights the conceptualization and burden of disability and its impact on health and functioning during the midlife and late adulthood.
Thematic Series: Pain in Midlife
This series highlights the problem of pain in midlife and its impact on health and health behaviors during the midlife years and as women age.
Thematic Series: Stress in Midlife
This series highlights key questions confronting women and clinicians regarding stress and its impact on health and functioning during the midlife years.
Thematic Series: Contraception and Pregnancy in Midlife
This series highlights key questions facing women and clinicians regarding pregnancy and contraceptive choices.
Articles
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The unseen epidemic: trauma and loneliness in urban midlife women
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Associations of reproductive factors with postmenopausal follicle stimulating hormone
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Association of vitamin D deficiency and pelvic organ prolapse in postmenopausal women: a cross-sectional study
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Design, implementation, and evaluation of self-care program in the prevention of breast cancer among women in Isfahan: a community-based participatory action research protocol
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Abdominal pain during the menopause transition and early postmenopause: observations from the Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study
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The challenges of midlife women: themes from the Seattle midlife Women’s health study
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Chronic vulvar pain in a cohort of post-menopausal women: Atrophy or Vulvodynia?
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Work outcomes in midlife women: the impact of menopause, work stress and working environment
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Unintended pregnancy: a framework for prevention and options for midlife women in the US
Aims and scope
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About the Editors
Dr. Siobán D. Harlow, Editor-in-Chief
Siobán D. Harlow, PhD, is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Integrated Approaches to Complex Diseases at the University of Michigan and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Michigan State University. She is Principal Investigator of the Michigan site of the 20–year multi-ethnic cohort Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) and for the SWAN Repository and chaired the 2011 consensus conference: “STRAW+10: Addressing the Unfinished Agenda of Staging Reproductive Aging”. From 2003–2009, she served on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, Division of Reproductive Health Research, World Health Organization.
Dr. Nancy Fugate Woods, Editor-in-Chief
Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN, has led a sustained program of research in the field of women’s health. In 1989 Dr. Woods and her colleagues, including Dr. Joan Shaver, established the first NIH-funded Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Washington School of Nursing.
Dr. Woods has served as president of the American Academy of Nursing, the North American Menopause Society, and the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. She was honored with the American Nurses Foundation Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award and the Pathfinder Award from the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research.
Dr. Woods was elected to the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine) and to the American Academy of Nursing for her research, education, and advocacy advancing women’s health. She was elected to fellowship in the Gerontological Society of America.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
47 days to first decision for all manuscripts (Median)
73 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only (Median)Usage
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Upcoming conferences
May 2023
14th European Congress on Menopause and Andropause
3-5 May
Florence, Italy
September 2023
North American Menopause Society
27-30 September
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA