Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda
Despite progress, societies continue to fail women at key times of their lives
World Health Organization - 2009
ISBN: 9789241563857
Available online PDF [108p.] at: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241563857_eng.pdf
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“…….Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years and in older age. These are the key findings of the WHO report Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda.
WHO calls for urgent action both within the health sector and beyond to improve the health and lives of girls and women around the world, from birth to older age.
The report provides the latest and most comprehensive evidence available to date on women's specific needs and health challenges over their entire life-course. The report includes the latest global and regional figures on the health and leading causes of death in women from birth, through childhood, adolescence and adulthood, to older age…..”
Content
Executive summary
Chapter 1 Understanding women’s health in the world today
Women around the world
Increasing life expectancy
The health transition
Socioeconomic inequalities adversely affect health
Gender inequities affect women’s health
Women amid conflicts and crisis
Women and the health-care system
Chapter 2 The girl child
Still too many deaths of infants and children
Sex differentials in health
Female genital mutilation
Abuse and maltreatment
Chapter 3 Adolescent girls
A time of good health but also risk
Puberty and sexual debut
Adolescent pregnancy
Sexually transmitted infections
Substance use
Poor diet and physical inactivity
Mental health in adolescence
Chapter 4 Adult women: the reproductive years
Women’s health during the reproductive years
Maternal health
Women and HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted infections
Cervical cancer
Chapter 5 Adult women
Mortality and burden of disease
Women, depression and suicide
Risk factors for chronic disease
Violence
Illness and use of health services
Chapter 6 Older women
Women and ageing
Socioeconomic influences on health in older women
What are the health problems that older women face?
Managing disabilities – a matter of prevention and care
Caring for older women
Chapter 7 Policy implications
Leadership
Responsive health services
Universal coverage
Public policy
Tracking progress
Index
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