strategy
Educating about women's health
Synonyms:
Informing about women's health Context:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.
Claim:
Special health education programmes should be developed in cooperation with the education sector, focusing on the role of women in the health care system.
Broader:
Educating womenPublicizing healthEducating public healthProviding health educationTeaching basic health practicesPromoting women's public health issuesExpanding social participation of womenGiving attention to sexual health of women Facilitates:
Improving status of womenAssuring family health careReducing individual fertilityStrengthening comprehensive health care for women Facilitated by:
Improving access of girls to basic education Problems:
Diseases of female reproductive organsIgnorance of women concerning primary health care
Inadequate maternal and child health care
Menstruation
Neglect of sexual health of women
Menstrual disadvantage of women
Values:
Health Organizations:
Terre des femmes Type Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
