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Strategy on women’s health and well-being Dr Gauden Galea, Director Isabel Yordi Aguirre, Technical Officer Noncommunicable Diseases and Promoting Health through the Life-course

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Page 1: Presentation –Strategy on women’s health and well-being

Strategy on women’s health and well-being

Dr Gauden Galea, DirectorIsabel Yordi Aguirre, Technical Officer

Noncommunicable Diseases and Promoting Health through the Life-course

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Connecting important agendas

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Beyond the mortality advantage

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Strengthening governance with women at the centre

Eliminating discriminatory values, norms and practices

Tackling the impact of gender and other social economic, cultural and environmental determinants

Improving health systems responses to women’s health and well-being

A transformative agenda: priority areas

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• More than maternal and child health• Health and education sector to eliminate gender stereotypes• Gender budgeting

Governance• Intersectoral policies that value girls and eliminate harmful practices• Addressing multiple discriminations• Detecting and addressing discrimination

Discrimination• Linking sex and gender with other determinants:

noncommunicable diseases and mental health• Health and social protection to reduce impact of precarious income

Determinants

• Respond to women’s needs with a life-course approach• Gender based models of care: paid and unpaid work• Eliminate sex and gender biases in research, use of medicines, prevention and care

Systems

A transformative agenda: highlights

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VisionAll girls and women are enabled and supported in achieving

their full health potential and well-being, with their human rights

respected, protected and fulfilled, and in which countries, both individually and together, work towards reducing gender and

socioeconomic inequities in health within the Region and beyond.

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