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Women’s International Association - http://www.mwia.net/
Central European Regional Congress of
Medical Women's International
Association (MWIA) 29-30 June 2012 in
Batumi/Georgia - GENDER
MWIA takes action for healthier women to get
a healthier world
Gender knowledge in medicine needs to be fostered in medical curricula
and in all medical textbooks and
instruction leaflets in Europe
MWIA will support Georgia to found a
Gender Medicine Institute
Central European Regional Congress of
Medical Women's International
Association (MWIA) was held last weekend
in Batumi/Georgia themed "The
Actual Topics on Women Health".
About 250 participants from all over the
world, of course mainly of Europe e.g.
from
Zealand
highly relevant issues like how to
overcome gender related differences
in health and healthcare between women
and men, girls and boys. In this
regard Medical Women's International
Association (MWIA) will support
On the occasion of the congress Dr.
Waltraud Diekhaus (
Vice-President of Central Europe and Dr.
Cisca Griffeon (The
Netherlands), Vice President from
medicine should be part of the training
of medical specialists.
Diversity between men and women strongly
has to get significant impact
on medical policies. All medical
textbooks and instruction leaflets from
drugs in
because Sex and Gender have different
impact on women's and men's health.
Fifteen years since the Fourth World
Conference on Women in
have brought important changes, but in
terms of meeting the commitments
for women's health the journey is still
at the beginning. The crucial
role of women at the local level
especially in the Eastern countries
means creating the conditions for social
change necessary to resolve the
issues of poverty, education, inequality
and special diseases.
The main problem in the health sector is
that the diversity between men
and women has not yet had any
significant impact on the medical
policies. Finally our demand is as such:
all medical textbooks and all
instruction leaflets from drugs need
gender specific data, which means
they must be written anew, thus
representing a good chance to advance
equality between men and women.
Combating gender stereotypes means
tackling the fundamental causes of
persisting gaps in medicine. Gender
knowledge in medicine also needs to be
fostered in all European medical
curricula - for the benefit of men and
women".
Press Contact: Dr. med. Waltraud
Diekhaus, E-Mail: w.diekhaus@online.de
Gundel Köbke, E-Mail: mail@gundel-koebke.de
Dr. Shelley Ross, E-mail: shelley.ross@usa.net