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6 Priorities for women and health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Increase women’s participation and leadership in science and public health WHO believes in the power of science and innovation to improve global health in every country. From critical contributions to COVID-19 vaccine development to groundbreaking work on our understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, women in science are pushing the boundaries of knowledge and safeguarding public health.
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The future we expect: women’s health and gender equality
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Special Programme HRP and the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in partnership with the British Medical Journal (BMJ), have today released a special series of papers on “Women’s Health and Gender Inequalities.” The series celebrates and interrogates collective progress towards making the ...
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Women's health and rights: 25 years of progress?
Women’s rights are human rights Every person’s right to control their sexuality and sexual and reproductive health is linked to their human rights. This makes sexual and reproductive health and rights a cornerstone of the Beijing strategy: both as a driver towards gender equality, and a fundamental part of it.
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Women's health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Some of the sociocultural factors that prevent women and girls to benefit from quality health services and attaining the best possible level of health include: unequal power relationships between men and women; social norms that decrease education and paid employment opportunities; an exclusive focus on women’s reproductive roles; and
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Menopause - World Health Organization (WHO)
A woman’s health status entering the perimenopausal period will largely be determined by prior health and reproductive history, lifestyle and environmental factors. Perimenopausal and postmenopausal symptoms can be disruptive to personal and professional lives, and changes associated with menopause will affect a woman’s health as she ages.
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Women’s and girls’ health throughout the life course
Over 10% of women globally, and about 20% of women in developing countries, experience peripartum and postpartum depression. This severely affects women’s health and well-being and their children’s early development. An estimated 2.6 million stillbirths occurred globally in 2015, 98% of them in low- and middle-income countries.
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Gender and health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Gender norms, roles and relations, and gender inequality and inequity, affect people’s health all around the world. This Q&A examines the links between gender and health, highlighting WHO’s ongoing work to address gender-related barriers to healthcare, advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity, and achieve health for all.
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights - World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Health Organization defines sexual health as a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being related to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity. Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion ...
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More than a third of women experience lasting health problems after ...
Every year, at least 40 million women are likely to experience a long-term health problem caused by childbirth, according to a new study published today in The Lancet Global Health. Part of a special Series on maternal health, the study shows a high burden of postnatal conditions that persist in the months or even years after giving birth. These include pain during sexual intercourse ...
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Ten top issues for women's health - World Health Organization (WHO)
Use of services, especially those for sexual and reproductive health, has increased in some countries. Two important factors that influence women’s health – namely, school enrolment rates for girls and greater political participation of women - have risen in many parts of the world. But we are not there yet.
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