Women's health : The childbearing years and after

摘要: Health and development planners have tended to see women primarily in context of their reproductive role. As a result, solutions women's health needs been restricted expanding improving maternal child systems. There has recently major shift direction, largely because the influence world conference on population held Cairo 1994. Dr Guiseppe Benagiano, director special programme research, research training human reproduction based at WHO, says, "We need remind ourselves constantly that is not simply biomedical issue but one with serious implications for our general by extension, all efforts social economic development." The 1993 report identified lack clear strategy engaging care suggested services, prenatal care, treatment sexually transmitted diseases, family planning services should be provided jointly convenient times. In an example this, Chilean Institute Reproductive Medicine now offers integrated same time as Thailand experimenting mobile clinics reach homes. proportion elderly increases, old age increasingly being seen female issue. With impact urbanisation industrialisation, more these are living isolated lives, often suffering from chronic debilitating diseases. his opening statement global commission April 1995 which focused conditions age, Hiroshi Nakajima, WHO's general, said: "Our goal solely extend lives physical sense, ensure added years worth living."