Women and health: the key for sustainable development

Ana Langer, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Afaf Meleis, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, USA
Felicia M Knaul, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Rifat Atun, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Meltem Aran, Development Analytics, Istanbul, Turkey
Hector Arreola-Ornelas, Fundación Mexicana para la Salud, Tlalpan, Mexico
Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Agnes Binagwaho, Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda
Ruth Bonita, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jacquelyn M Caglia, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Mariam Claeson, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA
Justine Davies, The Lancet, London, UK
France A Donnay, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA
Jewel M Gausman, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Caroline Glickman, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, USA
Annie D Kearns, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Tamil Kendall, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Rafael Lozano, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Naomi Seboni, International Planned Parenthood Federation Governing Council, London, UK
Gita Sen, Indian Institute of Management BangaloreFollow
Siriorn Sindhu, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand
Miriam Temin, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA
Julio Frenk, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

The Lancet

Abstract

Girls' and women's health is in transition and, although some aspects of it have improved substantially in the past few decades, there are still important unmet needs. Population ageing and transformations in the social determinants of health have increased the coexistence of disease burdens related to reproductive health, nutrition, and infections, and the emerging epidemic of chronic and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Simultaneously, worldwide priorities in women's health have themselves been changing from a narrow focus on maternal and child health to the broader framework of sexual and reproductive health and to the encompassing concept of women's health, which is founded on a life-course approach. This expanded vision incorporates health challenges that affect women beyond their reproductive years and those that they share with men, but with manifestations and results that affect women disproportionally owing to biological, gender, and other social determinants.

Publication Date

19-9-2015

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

Vol.386

Issue

Iss.9999

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