The
menopause is a natural part of ageing that usually occurs between 45 and 55
years of age as a woman's oestrogen levels decline.
Studies
have shown that menopause symptoms can have a significant impact on attendance
and performance in the workplace.
As our
populations are living longer, working longer and with so many women working
within the NHS it is important to support staff during this time to stay well
and thrive in their workplace.
World
Menopause Day is a worldwide awareness call for women who face health issues
when approaching, during and beyond the menopause.
The
International Menopause Society’s World Menopause Day Awareness Campaign
highlights the opportunity of using the menopausal period to assess
female-specific risk factors and preventing the development of cardiovascular
disease.
For
more information surrounding the menopause, please visit the British Menopause
Society, NHS Employers and NHS Choices websites:
https://thebms.org.uk/
https://www.nhsemployers.org/retention-and-staff-experience/health-and-wellbeing/taking-a-targeted-approach/taking-a-targeted-approach/menopause-in-the-workplace
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/menopause/
RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES
For
anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of
and supporting those who are going through or have been through the menopause,
the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer
numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a
variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our
collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our
online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS:
●
The
menopause monologues real experiences by real women (and a few men!) /
Harriet Powell, 2019 [Little Taboo]
●
Me and
my menopausal vagina : living with vaginal atrophy /
Jane Lewis, Penny Lewis, 2018; 1st ed. [Great Britain : PAL Books]
●
Management
of the menopause / Rees, Margaret; British Menopause Society,
2011; 5th ed. [London: Hodder Arnold]
●
Managing
the menopause : 21st century solutions / Nick Panay, Paul Briggs, Gabor Kovacs, 2015
[Cambridge: Cambridge University Press]
●
Gynaecology
illustrated / Catrina Bain, Kevin Burton, C. Jay McGavigan, D. McKay Hart, 2011;
6th ed [Edinburgh : Elsevier Churchill Livingstone]
●
Menopause
for the MRCOG and beyond / Margaret Rees, 2007; 2nd ed [London: RCOG
Press]
JOURNALS:
●
Journal of the British Menopause Society /
Marlow, Bucks : The Society. [Available as NHS e-journal 2003 - 2006].
●
Journal of Mid-life Health /
Mumbai : Medknow Publications. [Available as NHS ejournal 2007 -
2013].
●
BMC Women's Health /
London : BioMed Central. [Available as Open Access
online].
●
Post Reproductive Health /
[Los Angeles : Sage]. [Available as NHS
e-journal 2014 - 2015].
●
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology /
London : BioMed Central. [Avalable as NHS ejournal 2003
onwards].
●
Reproduction / Cambridge, UK :
Journals of Reproduction and Fertility. [Available as NHS
ejournal 1960 onwards with 1 year embargo].
Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL
ARTICLES:
● Brand, J. S ; van der Schouw, Y. T ;
Onland-Moret, N. C et al, “Age at Menopause, Reproductive Life Span, and Type 2
Diabetes Risk: Results from the EPIC-InterAct study”, Diabetes Care, 2012, Vol.36 (4), p.1012-1019. [Available via NHS ejournals]
● Shuster, Lynne T ; Rhodes, Deborah J et al,
“Premature menopause or early menopause: Long-term health consequences”, Maturitas, 2010, Vol.65 (2), p.161-166.
[Available via NHS ejournals]
● Gandhi, Jason ; Chen, Andrew ; Dagur, Gautam
et al, “Genitourinary syndrome of menopause: an overview of clinical
manifestations, pathophysiology, etiology, evaluation, and management”, American journal of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, 2016, Vol.215 (6), p.704-711. [Available via NHS
ejournals]
● Tania Perich, Jane Ussher, Chloe Parton, “Is
it menopause or bipolar?”: a qualitative study of the experience of menopause
for women with bipolar disorder”, BMC
Women's Health, 2017, Vol.17 (110), doi:
10.1186/s12905-017-0467-y . [Available as open access
online]
● Mander, Tony, “Working doctors and their
menopause.”, Post Reproductive Health, 2020,
Vol.26 (3), pp.119-119. doi:10.1177/2053369120958273. [Available as open access
online].
PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT
ADVICE
· NHS website – Menopause https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/menopause/
· NICE
Evidence - Migraine search with ‘Information for the Public’ and ‘Patientdecision aids’ filters:
· Health Talk - Menopause https://www.healthtalk.org/menopause/overview
· British Menopause Society – Tools for
Clinicians (materials for both women and healthcare professionals around
menopause) https://thebms.org.uk/publications/tools-for-clinicians/
·
Menopause Matters https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/
CURRENT AWARENESS
Health Library at County current awareness service
http://www.protopage.com/pgmclibrary
Health
Library at Stoke current awareness service
https://www.netvibes.com/healthlibrary_northstaffs#Health_News
(Compiled by Frances Griffiths)
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