Publication
30 Oct 2024
Digital technologies hold great promise for improving the delivery of health services and helping countries to progress towards universal health coverage. This report summarizes initial systematic work to make the economic case for implementing a set of evidence-based digital health interventions for NCD prevention and management, including telemedicine, mobile health and health chatbots. It also...
Article
25 Oct 2024
This editorial, written by Sanne Peters and Robyn Norton of The George Institute, argues that funding agencies and journal publishers must require sex and gender-specific reporting.
Article
25 Oct 2024
Gendered Innovations harness the creative power of sex, gender, and intersectional analysis for innovation and discovery. Considering these approaches may add valuable dimensions to research. They may take research in new directions. For a summary, see Sex and Gender Analysis Improves Science and Engineering (Nature, 2019). See also Gendered Innovations 2: How Inclusive Analysi...
Publication
25 Oct 2024
This piece explores the role of the obstetricians in contributing to her patients' lifelong wellbeing and minimizing their NCD risk long after pregnancy.
Publication
25 Oct 2024
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the main causes of ill health for women and men in the WHO European Region. NCD indicators in all countries reveal important differences between men and women across the life-course. Biology is important in shaping these differences, but it does not explain them all. Gender norms and roles put women and men at different levels of exposure and vulnerability...
Report
25 Oct 2024
Report advocates for minimizing in-utero and childhood risks for NCDs as an imperitive for reducing poverty and gendered inequalities.
Report
25 Oct 2024
Policy brief by Centre of Excellence for CRVS and Le Centre D'Excellence describing how civil record-keeping disproportionately excludes women and girls, and how women can be instrumental in correcting this problem.
Report
25 Oct 2024
Report by the Institute for Alcohol Studies and Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems summarising and expanding on a series of seminars
Publication
25 Oct 2024
The purpose of this report is in response to a request from the Seventh session of the Conference of Parties (COP7) to review the relationship between gender and tobacco, and provide evidence for gender-responsive tobacco control. Globally more men than women use tobacco, and sex-disaggregated data on the burden of morbidity associated with tobacco use shows a significantly (three times) higher bu...
Report
25 Oct 2024
Report reviewing the published, English-language research literature on issues affecting women in relation to dementia from an international perspective.
Dialogue
25 Oct 2024
Summary of a discussion in Beijing among national policymakers and experts to share experiences of empowerment and women's health throughout the life course.
25 Oct 2024
Every year, millions of women die from heart disease, stroke and complications of diabetes, with the greatest number of deaths occurring in low-resource settings, such as parts of rural India. The SMARThealth Pregnancy programme aims to help community health workers identify women at risk and manage their healthcare in order to reduce premature deaths.
