Minister spends millions to fight ignorance about women's health
Dutch NewsCaretaker health minister Pia Dijkstra is earmarking “a substantial amount of money” for research into improving the treatment of health problems specific to women. Dijkstra, who announced the plan on International Women’s Day, was reacting to an earlier report by the Dutch association of gynecologists and obstetricians NVOG and lobby group Women Inc. That report highlighted the lack of attention to, and knowledge about women-specific health problems, such as endometriosis, severe menstrual pain, menopausal complaints and pelvic floor problems. All too often the complaints associated with women-specific health problems are being dismissed as “female trouble”, both by professionals and the women themselves, the researchers said. Dijkstra said she found it “incomprehensible” that knowledge about women-specific health problems is still substandard, including in society as a whole.
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