Inequalities across the continent: research, women and health.
Day 3 of our delegation to HLTH Europe
By Hannah Davies, Chief Executive Officer
This week on our delegation to HLTH Europe, I was delighted to see so many events focussing on women’s health. Our Health Equity North Woman of the North report, released last September, shone a spotlight on the stark inequalities women in the North of England are facing in areas such as life expectancy, domestic violence, wages, unpaid care, mental health and more. The evidence was conclusive: women continue to experience deep-rooted and unfair outcomes, to the detriment of their health, wellbeing and safety.
The report set out clear recommendations to address these disparities, including for the health ecosystem to explore ways in which their work can be adapted to address health inequalities across different population groups.
With this in mind, I ensured that our journey to HLTH Europe would focus heavily on a series of events based around on health inequalities women experience, and how the health sector can work together to close this gap.
An event with NHS GPs alongside various global health representatives touched on the inequalities women, particularly marginalised women, face no matter where they are from. Globally, women are on average waiting four times longer for a diagnosis than men, and where you live and how much you earn impacts your chances of recovery from diseases and health complications – a fact that no country is excluded from.
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