Women’s health ambassador to be appointed to tackle gender health gap
3 years ago

Women’s health ambassador to be appointed to tackle gender health gap

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A women’s health ambassador will be appointed to help “reset the dial” on decades of gender health inequality in England. The strategy report also found that harmful taboos and stigmas around some women’s health topics are preventing women from seeking help and reinforcing “beliefs that debilitating symptoms are ‘normal’”. Minister for women’s health, Maria Caulfield MP, said the responses were “in many ways as expected” and said “it is not right that over three-quarters of women feel the healthcare service has not listened. Minister for women’s health, Maria Caulfield MP, said: “Many of the issues raised require long-term system wide changes, but we must start somewhere.

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How to Close the Gender Health Gap
54 years, 11 months ago

How to Close the Gender Health Gap

Wired  

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What we really need: A feminist health policy
9 months, 1 week ago

What we really need: A feminist health policy

The Hindu  

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Bridging the gender gap in health research
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Bridging the gender gap in health research

The Hindu  

As of 2023, there were 4 billion women in the world, accounting for approximately 49.75% of the population. On this International Women’s Day, we must scrutinise the path towards gender parity, especially within healthcare. The recently released World Economic Forum’s report, ‘Closing the Women’s Health Gap’, underscored the profound disparity between men’s and women’s health worldwide. It elucidated historical neglect …

Jill Biden will lead new initiative to boost federal government research into women’s health
1 year, 1 month ago

Jill Biden will lead new initiative to boost federal government research into women’s health

Associated Press  

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The NHS is ‘failing women’, says women’s health ambassador
1 year, 6 months ago

The NHS is ‘failing women’, says women’s health ambassador

The Independent  

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It’s 2022 – why has it taken England so long to prioritise women’s health?
2 years, 4 months ago

It’s 2022 – why has it taken England so long to prioritise women’s health?

The Independent  

Most government consultations attract a few thousand responses at best. But when the Department of Health recently called for a public response to a strategy on women’s health, it received over a hundred thousand responses. Despite making up 51 per cent of the population, living longer than men, and experiencing more years of disability, there is still a lack of …

International Women’s Day: Expert panel to discuss gender health gap
2 years, 9 months ago

International Women’s Day: Expert panel to discuss gender health gap

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s no secret that there’s a gender health gap between men and …

One in three women has had health concerns dismissed. Experts say it's evidence of a gender gap in medicine
3 years, 6 months ago

One in three women has had health concerns dismissed. Experts say it's evidence of a gender gap in medicine

ABC  

Ebony Tallentyre was 16 when she went to the doctor for exhaustion, muscle pain and irregular periods. Key points: Women are twice as likely as men to say they have had health concerns dismissed by a GP Experts say it is evidence of a gender gap in medicine and that women's health is not as well researched as men's health …

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