A common pathway toward women's health

摘要: Abstract This paper calls for an alternate approach to studying the aetiology of women's health conditions. Instead long-established disease-specific, compartmentalized approach, it recommends focusing on risk exposures that allows identification multiple disease conditions stem from same factors. Identifying common factors and related pathways adverse outcomes can lead development interventions would favourably affect more than one condition. The utility such is illustrated by a review literature across globe association between gender inequity-related (namely, three conditions: sexually transmitted infections [STIs], including Human Immunodeficiency Virus [HIV], blindness, depression; as well two behaviours: eating disorders tobacco use). demonstrates how cannot be viewed independently larger social, economic, a...