{"id":185697,"date":"2022-05-18T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=185697"},"modified":"2022-05-18T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:23:10","slug":"podcast-pandemic-challenges-to-womens-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2022\/05\/podcast-pandemic-challenges-to-womens-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Pandemic Challenges to Women\u2019s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n  <p>We\u2019re combating these socio-economic problems that these women have, but we\u2019re also battling the mistrust that they have with providers, which is kind of longstanding. And this is not something that started with a pandemic, it\u2019s just being brought up a lot more with the pandemic. <cite> &#8212 Dr. Shontreal Cooper<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For many women, there&#8217;s no shortage of potential obstacles to preventive care. It could be simple things like a tendency to put their own needs on hold for the sake of their family or career. Or it could be socio-economic barriers, with the pandemic exacerbating the challenges associated with employment, child care, living conditions, or even overall faith in modern medicine.<\/p>\n<p>On the latest UConn Health Pulse podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Cooper-Shontreal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Shontreal Cooper<\/a>, a maternal-fetal medicine physician in UConn Health\u2019s Women\u2019s Center, shares her observations from the last two years, what she tells her patients, and a creative way she tries to break down barriers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ytzNvVPAXY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/pandemic-challenges-to-womens-health\">Pandemic Challenges to Women\u2019s Health<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pandemic Challenges to Women\u2019s Health&#8221; &#8212; UConn Health\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/pandemic-challenges-to-womens-health\/embed#?secret=Nv5mTlmFd9#?secret=ytzNvVPAXY\" data-secret=\"ytzNvVPAXY\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Shontreal Cooper, UConn Health maternal-fetal medicine physician, shares her observations on women&#8217;s health over the course of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-185697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 19:23:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185701,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185697\/revisions\/185701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185697"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=185697"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=185697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}