Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1969; Volume 40, Number 3, Year 1969, Pages 455-458: Nomenclature du Complement

By K. F. Austen

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Title:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1969; Volume 40, Number 3, Year 1969, Pages 455-458: Nomenclature du Complement
Author:	K. F. Austen
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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1.1 Background and purpose 'Ihe World Health Organization and other international and national organizations and government bodie~ are increasingly responsive ro the particular health needa of women. This paper reflects issuea and ideas about women'a health which appeared as dominant themes at the WHO Conference on Women and Kealth held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, in May 1983. The themes themselves have appeared in virtually every conference on women and health held in Europe and North America over the past decade (see Annex 1 for a list of officially sponsored national and international meetings which reflect these concerns). These themes represent a vision of women'a health which has emerged from the women's health movement throughout Europe and North America over the past 15 years. This movement consists of women who participate in hundreds of women's self-help health groups, health clinics, health rights organizations and groups which write and publish timely health information for women (ISIS, 1980; Boston Women's Health Book Collective, 1976; Doyal, 1983; Freeman, 1982; Kickbusch, 1978; Ruzek, 1978; Kleiber and Light, 1978; Rodenatein, 1980; Women's Health Information Centre, 1983). For example, one of the best known groups, the Boston Women'e Health Book Collective, in the United States, has sold over two million copies of the US edition of their enomoualy popular health manual, Our bodies, ourselves.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS omen's health; a growing social issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Background and purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Why positive health education must be aex-specific or the importance of a gender analysis to health education . 1 positive approaches to men's health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 Towards a holistic social model of women's health . . . . . . . 2 2.2 Trends in health education and promotlou . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.3 The mandate of health education and promotion . . . . . . . . . 3 The liEe-context of women's health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Social Eorcea which affect women'a experience of health and wellbeing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4.1 The ape distribution of populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L lr.2 Changing family structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.3 Economic development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Health issues asociated with women's life experience . . . 5 5.1 Sexuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5.2 Reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5.3 Women's family roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5.1 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5.5 Quality of life and quality of care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Redefining the knowledge base for promoting women'a health . 7 6.1 Epidemiological knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6.2 Clinical knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6.3 Experiental knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6.4 Supreased and devalued knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6.5 Research needs for @xpanding the knowledge baae . . . . . . . . 10 Central coscepta for promoting womeu'a health . . . . . . . . . . . 10 77..12 RIenpcrriesaisnign gw woommeenn''ss vasleulefs- dteot etrrmainnsaftoiromn s.oc.ia.l .re.la.ti.on.s ..... .. .. 1101 7.3 Incorporating a political analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Strategies for health education and promotion for women . . . . . . . 11 8.1 Designing and providing health information . . . . . . . . . . 12 8.2 Facilitating popular education and consciousnesa-raising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 8.3 Supporting community development and organizing . . . . . . . 13 8.4 Stimulating regulatory action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8.5 Promoting change through legislative and judicial meaaures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Implications for planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14