PHM-Exch> WHO Global Report: Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org

 *Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda

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*Despite progress, societies continue to fail women at key times of their
lives

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*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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