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Women and health: today's evidence tomorrow's agenda
Publisher/Organizer: World Health Organization
Publication date: 2009
Number of pages: 111
Language: English
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Overview
This report reviews evidence on the health issues that particularly affect girls and women
throughout their life course. Despite considerable progress over the past two decades, societies
are still failing women at key moments in their lives. These failures are most acute in poor
countries, and among the poorest women in all countries. Not everyone has benefited equally
from recent progress and too many girls and women are still unable to reach their full potential
because of persistent health, social and gender inequalities and health system inadequacies.
This report does not offer a comprehensive analysis of the state of women and health in
the world. The data and evidence that are available are too patchy and incomplete for this to
be possible. Indeed, one of the striking findings of the report is the paucity of statistics on key
health issues that affect girls and women. But the report does bring together what is currently
known and identifies areas where new data need to be generated, available data compiled and
analysed, and research undertaken to fill critical gaps in the evidence base.
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