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25 mar 2021 · Women and girls have and health needs which must be met now, and they have equal rights to participate in, and benefit from, global recovery efforts in a post-pandemic world. This starts by ensuring for all women and girls, and needs in and trials.
- Gender and COVID-19
Overview . Pandemics and outbreaks have differential impacts...
- Women's health
Women's health. Being a man or a woman has a significant...
- Gender and health
This Q&A examines the links between gender and health,...
- Gender and COVID-19
11 mar 2023 · Women's health. Being a man or a woman has a significant impact on health, as a result of both biological and gender-related differences. The health of women and girls is of particular concern because, in many societies, they are disadvantaged by discrimination rooted in sociocultural factors.
12 sty 2017 · Social conditions and cultural norms that limit women’s access to health services, education, and economic opportunities are at the root of women’s health disparities and exacerbate the feminization of poverty as measured by the higher percentage of female -headed households who are poor.
24 maj 2021 · 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.
28 maj 2022 · For women to have autonomy over their bodies and decision-making processes, donors and policy-makers must ensure that they have access to quality healthcare services. Providing women and girls with better access to healthcare is important to build resilience for future crisis.
Environmental change has effects on women's health and their caregiving role in both rural and urban settings. Resource degradation can impoverish women because location of basic resources takes increased time and effort, while reducing women's ability to provide care for their families.
By improving leading positions of women in healthcare and supporting their unique values, all theme’s connected with women’s health will be put higher on the agenda and this will speed-up the realization of SDGs 3 and 5 in 2030.
