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Women’s health

We cover many health issues relating to women's health such as breast feeding, making decisions about birth after caesarean and menopause.

Browse all our content on women's health

Here you will find thousands of clips of women talking about health and wellbeing, all based on academic research.

Breast cancer in women

In this section you can find out about women's experiences of primary breast cancer by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 53 women in their own homes....

Breast screening

In this section you can find out about women's experiences of breast screening by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. In 2004 and 2005 a researcher travelled all around the UK to talk to 40 women...

Breastfeeding

In this section you can find out about the experience of breastfeeding by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 56 women and 2 men in their own...

Cervical abnormalities: CIN3 and CGIN

In this section you can find out about experiences of cervical abnormalities CIN3 and CGIN by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 39 women in their own...

Cervical cancer

In this section you can find out about experiences of cervical cancer by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 25 women in their own homes. Find out...

Cervical screening

In this section you can find out about experiences of cervical screening by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 37 women in their own homes. Find out what...

Conditions that threaten women's lives in pregnancy and childbirth

In this section you can find out about the experience of conditions that threaten women's lives in pregnancy and childbirth by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. While pregnancy and childbirth in the UK is safer...

Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)

In this section you can find out about experiences of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 39 people in their own homes....

Ending a pregnancy due to fetal abnormality

In this section you can find out about the experience of ending a pregnancy after the discovery of a fetal abnormality by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk...

Losing a baby at 20–24 weeks of pregnancy

In this section you can find out about the experiences of parents whose baby died before, during or shortly after birth at 20 to 24 weeks of pregnancy by seeing and hearing parents share their personal stories on film. We...

Making decisions about birth after caesarean (C-section)

In this section you can find out about experiences of making decisions about birth after a previous caesarean (C-section) by seeing and listening to people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to...

Menopause

In this section you can find out about the experience of menopause by listening to people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 46 women in their own homes. Find out what...

Ovarian cancer

In this section you can find out about the experience of ovarian cancer by seeing and hearing people share their personal stories on film. Researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 48 women in their own homes. Find...

Pre-eclampsia and high blood pressure in pregnancy

In this section of the website, you can find out about the experiences of women who had pre-eclampsia (a disorder of blood pressure in pregnancy) and HELLP syndrome (a complication of pre-eclampsia which also involves liver and platelet function). Our...

Pregnancy

In this section you can find out about the experience of pregnancy by listening to people share their personal stories on film. Our researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 51 people, including some male partners, in their own...