Eleanor Krassen Covan
Biographic Data
| ID | 258057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Krassen Covan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor Krassen |
| FAMILY NAME | Covan |
| SIGNATURE | COVAN E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Covance (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Editor’s table of literature contributions
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Predicting social interaction among aging women
Contributing to global literature on theory, practice, and methods
Infectious communicable diseases
The study of gender in relation to infectious communicable diseases allows researchers to examine questions of whether biological or social factors are responsible for who gets sick and who dies fr
Maternal health
Issues 4, 5 and 6 together are a triple issue with a focus on maternal health. The triple issue is a trilogy of sorts including papers about care and perceptions of care for prenatal, pregnancy and
Attention to mid-life
I am pleased to open Volume 42, with a scholarship collection about women in mid-life. I hope future submissions about health issues faced by women during this life stage will increase. Three artic
Migrant identity and access to health care
In Issue 42:2, we publish a collection of articles on issues encountered by women who are migrants. Authors discuss changes in identity that occurring in consequence of migration. Oluwatoyin Olukot
Hope and looking to the future
COVID has had far reaching impacts on our lives personally and professionally. We were so pleased to be able to put together this special issue on COVID but know that as scholars our work is just b
What makes life worth living
I think, to some extent, all the articles in this issue contain implicit research queries about what makes life worth living for older women. I find this interesting as I suspect questions and answ
Disruption to homeostasis
There are many things that cause disruptions to social order including natural disasters and pandemics. Natural disasters and pandemics tend to shake up all social institutions. Here we publish a c
Literature contributions of manuscripts published in issue 41
Reproductive Health Issues
Methodological contributions to women’s health research
Most readers know that to be published in this scholarly journal, authors must make a theoretical, methodological or practice contribution to literature concerning global women’s health issues. Thi
Numbness as a coping mechanism
I write the editorial for Volume 40:3 of Health care for Women International during a difficult time in my life. A week ago, there was a shooting in a Synagogue where a congregation was celebrating
We must study a combination of structural and social psychological variables to understand maternal health issues
The Breadth of Health Care for Women International
Although some readers may not appreciate an editor who boasts, I am doing it anyway in this editorial. I created this issue of Health Care for Women International to show off the breadth of the wor
Vulnerable populations of patients and practitioners
Reproductive health issues
Authors consider reproductive health in this issue of Health Care for Women International. Several relate to the experience of pregnancy and the aftermath of birth. In three others articles, the au
Baby Steps Needed for Research Impact
Read and Learn Through Health Care for Women International
As the new year begins, Health Care for Women International has transitioned to a fully online, author agreement system.All authors whose articles are accepted will now receive a link to an online
Effect of Acculturation and Health Beliefs on Utilization of Health Care Services by Elderly Women Who Immigrated to the USA From the Former Soviet Union
In this mixed methods study, researchers explored what conditions influence women's use of professional health care services, and how sociocultural environments and acculturation affect utilization of health care services. We recruited 15 women in the Ukraine, 15 women who immigrated from the former Soviet Union, and 10 female U.S. citizens. Data include open-ended interviews, a "general information" questionnaire, and the Language, Identity and …
Exploring Rape Myths, Gendered Norms, Group Processing, and the Social Context of Rape Among College Women
The purpose of this research is to explore the negotiation strategies of college women as they interpret ambiguous rape scenarios. In focus groups, 1st- and 4th-year college women were presented with a series of three vignettes depicting incidents that meet the legal criteria for rape yet are ambiguous due to the presence of cultural rape myths, contexts involving alcohol consumption, varying degrees of consent, and a known perpetrator. These con…
The Health of Women and Girls Determines the Health and Well-Being of Our Modern World
The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal of promoting health, health care, and well-being of women and girls throughout the world through participation, empowerment, advocacy, education, and research. We are a multidisciplinary network of women's health providers, planners, and advocates from all over the globe. We constitute an international professional and lay n…
Exploring Rape Myths, Gendered Norms, Group Processing, and the Social Context of Rape Among College Women
The purpose of this research is to explore the negotiation strategies of college women as they interpret ambiguous rape scenarios. In focus groups, 1st- and 4th-year college women were presented with a series of three vignettes depicting incidents that meet the legal criteria for rape yet are ambiguous due to the presence of cultural rape myths, contexts involving alcohol consumption, varying degrees of consent, and a known perpetrator. These con…
Cultural priorities and elder care
In this article I address the institutional and personal processes associated with providing and receiving elder care. Although cultural differences abound, it is argued that five conditions currently affect the social response to frail elders all around the world: (a) male dominance of political and economic social institutions; (b) elder care dependent on the "dirty work" of women; (c) limited and ambiguous social recognition for providing elde…
CaresharlNG
This paper presents research findings generated from a study of the structure of a "caresharing system" for the elderly who reside in a Florida retirement community during the last decade of the twentieth century. A caresharing system is a combination of strategies employed in order to maximize pleasure and minimize losses that might otherwise be associated with communal and individual aging processes. In this instance, the caresharing system ent…
Revisiting the Relationship Between Elder Modelers and Their Protégés
This memoir is a series of reflections on the universal social processes of modeling. In the 1970s when I completed a dissertation under the supervision of Anselm Strauss, I wrote about relationships between elder role models and their proteges, describing modeling processes in a secondary qualitative analysis of ethnographies on more than one hundred societies . Then I discovered that when modeling is understood and enacted by mentors in a consc…
Phyllis Stern's Response to Ted Greiner's Letter to the Editor
Meaning of Aging in Women's Lives
As limited resources led me to combine teaching and research responsibilities, my students have been participating in an assignment that involves listening to aging women in order to discover how women explain the aging process. We have conducted 329 comprehensive interviews of women who were living in the decade of their sixties, seventies, eighties, or nineties. In this sample of predominantly southern women in the United States, meaning of age…
Aging Bodies
Emergency Planning and Long-Term Care
As disasters can occur anywhere, planning to avoid emergencies is an international concern. Our research specifically addresses planning for the needs and safety of a vulnerable population, long-term care residents. Our initial purposes in this evaluation research were to assess the utility of a template to gather emergency management information for individual long-term care communities, to report on how prepared they are to cope with emergencie…
The Health of Women and Girls Determines the Health and Well-Being of Our Modern World
The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal of promoting health, health care, and well-being of women and girls throughout the world through participation, empowerment, advocacy, education, and research. We are a multidisciplinary network of women's health providers, planners, and advocates from all over the globe. We constitute an international professional and lay n…
Effect of Acculturation and Health Beliefs on Utilization of Health Care Services by Elderly Women Who Immigrated to the USA From the Former Soviet Union
In this mixed methods study, researchers explored what conditions influence women's use of professional health care services, and how sociocultural environments and acculturation affect utilization of health care services. We recruited 15 women in the Ukraine, 15 women who immigrated from the former Soviet Union, and 10 female U.S. citizens. Data include open-ended interviews, a "general information" questionnaire, and the Language, Identity and …
Exploring Rape Myths, Gendered Norms, Group Processing, and the Social Context of Rape Among College Women
The purpose of this research is to explore the negotiation strategies of college women as they interpret ambiguous rape scenarios. In focus groups, 1st- and 4th-year college women were presented with a series of three vignettes depicting incidents that meet the legal criteria for rape yet are ambiguous due to the presence of cultural rape myths, contexts involving alcohol consumption, varying degrees of consent, and a known perpetrator. These con…
Read and Learn Through Health Care for Women International
As the new year begins, Health Care for Women International has transitioned to a fully online, author agreement system.All authors whose articles are accepted will now receive a link to an online
Baby Steps Needed for Research Impact
We must study a combination of structural and social psychological variables to understand maternal health issues
The Breadth of Health Care for Women International
Although some readers may not appreciate an editor who boasts, I am doing it anyway in this editorial. I created this issue of Health Care for Women International to show off the breadth of the wor
Vulnerable populations of patients and practitioners
Reproductive health issues
Authors consider reproductive health in this issue of Health Care for Women International. Several relate to the experience of pregnancy and the aftermath of birth. In three others articles, the au
Reproductive Health Issues
Methodological contributions to women’s health research
Most readers know that to be published in this scholarly journal, authors must make a theoretical, methodological or practice contribution to literature concerning global women’s health issues. Thi
Numbness as a coping mechanism
I write the editorial for Volume 40:3 of Health care for Women International during a difficult time in my life. A week ago, there was a shooting in a Synagogue where a congregation was celebrating
Hope and looking to the future
COVID has had far reaching impacts on our lives personally and professionally. We were so pleased to be able to put together this special issue on COVID but know that as scholars our work is just b
What makes life worth living
I think, to some extent, all the articles in this issue contain implicit research queries about what makes life worth living for older women. I find this interesting as I suspect questions and answ
Disruption to homeostasis
There are many things that cause disruptions to social order including natural disasters and pandemics. Natural disasters and pandemics tend to shake up all social institutions. Here we publish a c
Literature contributions of manuscripts published in issue 41
Infectious communicable diseases
The study of gender in relation to infectious communicable diseases allows researchers to examine questions of whether biological or social factors are responsible for who gets sick and who dies fr
Maternal health
Issues 4, 5 and 6 together are a triple issue with a focus on maternal health. The triple issue is a trilogy of sorts including papers about care and perceptions of care for prenatal, pregnancy and
Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Health care (8 works) · MEDLINE (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Global Health Workforce Issues (6 works)