Women’s Health and Well-being in Europe: Beyond the Mortality Advantage

Ukhova, D. (2016) Women’s Health and Well-being in Europe: Beyond the Mortality Advantage. Documentation. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.

Abstract

Women’s health is at a crossroads. Global efforts to advance women’s health have been endorsed by countries through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and are being taken forward through the Sustainable Development Goals and the global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health. To strengthen action as part of progressing the Health 2020 agenda, a strategy on women’s health and well-being in the WHO European Region 2017–2021 will be considered by the 66th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe in September 2016. This report provides background to the strategy. It presents a snapshot of women’s health in the Region, discusses the social, economic and environmental factors that determine women’s health and well-being, brings into focus the impact of gender-based discrimination and gender stereotypes, considers what the concept of people-centred health systems would need to entail to respond to women’s needs, and considers perspectives important for the international and national frameworks that govern women’s health and well-being in Europe.

• Item Type: Research Reports or Papers (Documentation)
• Additional Information: This report was produced under the overall direction of Gauden Galea, Director, Division of Noncommunicable Diseases and Promoting Health through the Life-course, and Piroska Östlin, Director, Division of Policy and Governance for Health and Well-being of the WHO Regional Office for Europe. The authors were: Isabel Yordi Aguirre, Gender Adviser at the Regional Office (who was also lead editor); Johanna Hanefeld, independent consultant; Åsa Nihlén, Technical Officer on Human Rights at the Regional Office; and Sarah Simpson, independent consultant. Daria Ukhova, consultant.
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Ukhova, Dr Daria
• Authors: Ukhova, D.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
• Publisher: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
• ISBN: 9789289051910