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WORLD HEALTH DAY - APRIL 7, 2010

http://www.who.int/world-health-day/2010/en/index.html

1000 Cities, 1000 Lives

1000 cities: to open up public spaces to health, whether it be activities in parks, town hall meetings, clean-up campaigns, or closing off portions of streets to motorized vehicles.

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http://www.who.int/topics/womens_health/en/

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. For example, women and girls face increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.

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
  • potential or actual experience of physical, sexual and emotional violence.

While poverty is an important barrier to positive health outcomes for both men and women, poverty tends to yield a higher burden on women and girls’ health due to, for example, feeding practices (malnutrition) and use of unsafe cooking fuels (COPD).

New report 2009:
Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda


GENERAL

Fact sheet on women's health

Q&A: What is a gender-based approach to public health?


MULTIMEDIA

10 facts about women's health

WHO PROGRAMME

Gender, women and health

WOMEN'S HEALTH IN WHO REGIONS

African Region
Region of the Americas PAHO
South East Asia Region
European Region
Eastern Mediterranean Region
Western Pacific Region

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Women and HIV/AIDS

Gender-based violence

- More about women's health

PUBLICATIONS

WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women

Women’s health and human rights: monitoring the implementation of CEDAW [pdf 335kb]

- More publications on women's health


RELATED TOPICS

- Reproductive Health and Research (RHR)
- Gender and reproductive rights
- Making pregnancy safer
- Gender and women's mental health
- Emergencies: women's health
- Tuberculosis and women
- Physical activity and women





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