Introduction to the Theme: Women and Health

Abstract

This issue of the Journal is concerned with health and the delivery of health services as these relate to the needs and demands of women, both as providers and as users of those services. We have sought to develop an historical and critical analysis of social relations in the provision of services and of the material and ideological forces by which those relations were created and are maintained. Our thrust has been that the role of women must be viewed within the larger context of social relations and ideology and the broader social forces which have produced them.