strategy
Promoting women's public health issues
Synonyms:
Eliminating discrimination against women in healthGiving due attention to women's health issues
Description:
Identification and promotion of women and their issues in international public health such as: safer motherhood, maternal health and child health, employment training, legislation, policy formation and support of pilot projects. Context:
Women have specific health care needs. More than one third of disease that burdens women between the ages of 15 and 44 are conditions that afflict women exclusively or predominantly. Implementation:
Sponsor panels on women's health; provide exchange forum and technical assistance of existing training, resources and materials on women's health areas; research neglected women's health areas; publicize information and run campaigns to focus on such issues. Claim:
The health of women influences the health status of other family members because women need to be healthy in order to fulfil their roles as mothers and household managers. Broader:
Promoting healthSafeguarding public healthStrengthening comprehensive health care for womenProviding public health services Narrower:
Promoting safe motherhoodProviding mother/child careEducating about women's healthInforming about womens health hazardsGiving attention to sexual health of womenConducting surveys on the health and nutrition of womenGiving special attention to informing women on demographic impactsGiving special attention to informing women on demographic impacts Facilitated by:
Providing government forums on public issues Problems:
Commercial surrogate mothersDiscrimination against men in child bearing
Ignorance of women concerning primary health care
Insufficient birth spacing in families
Male bias of medicine
Neglect of sexual health of women
Social isolation of women at home
Organizations:
International Health Awareness Network Women's International Public Health Network Partnership for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health Population Reference Bureau Subjects:
Society → WomenCommunication → Promotion
Health Care → Health
Government → Public
Consciousness → Consciousness
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
