title: Health Care for Women International
text: # Health Care for Women International
  
  Health Care for Women International is a monthly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering health care and related topics that concern women around the globe.
  
  It is the official journal for Women's Health Issues and it is published by Taylor & Francis. Its editor-in-chief is Eleanor Krassen Covan (University of North Carolina at Wilmington).
  
  ## History
  
  The journal was originally titled Issues in Health Care of Women (1978–1983).
  
  The editor-in-chief from 1983 to 2001 was Phyllis Stern (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing).
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  * Ageline
  * Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
  * CSA Social Services Abstracts
  * CSA Sociological Abstracts
  * Current Contents/Social and Behavioural Sciences
  * EMCARE
  * European Reference Index for the Humanities
  * H.W. Wilson General Science Abstracts (GenSciAbs)
  * H.W. Wilson General Science Index
  * H.W. Wilson Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (LegalPeridodical)
  * Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
  * PAIS International
  * PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts
  * Scopus
  * Social Sciences Citation Index
  * Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.950, ranking it 20th out of 40 journals in the category "Women's Studies" and 115th out of 153 journals in the category "Public, Environmental & Occupational Health".
  
  