It's World Menopause Day today. 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 (available from County and/or Stoke but can be requested from either site):
● 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 (now Menopause International) / Marlow, Bucks : The Society. [Available as NHS e-journal 2003 - 2006]
Menopause International/ Sage [Available as NHS e-journal 2007-2013]
● Journal of Mid-life Health / Mumbai : Medknow Publications. [Available as Open Access- 2010 -].
● Bmc Women's Health / London : BioMed Central. [Available as Open Access online 2001- ].
● Post Reproductive Health / [Los Angeles : Sage]. [Available as NHS e-journal 2014 - 2015].
● Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology / London : BioMed Central. [Available as Open Access online 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 F Griffiths 2020 updated by L Fulbrook 2021)
