Title : Navigating women’s health: challenges, solutions and beyond.
Abstract:
Women represents 50% of the population globally and 80% of purchasing decisions in healthcare are made by women. It is a common knowledge that women feel a pressure to be a “superwoman”- women feel the pressure to manage and juggle across all aspects of their life(including family, home, work and friends). Most often, they are more likely to bear the childcare and family care responsibilities. With regards to prioritization, they tends to prioritize the needs of their family and children over themselves neglecting their own health. Several publications and books have indicated gender bias in healthcare. Historically, women are underrepresented and have been excluded from researches and this is due to the belief that their hormones and body changes throughout the menstrual cycle can interfere with the results. And this has resulted in the lack of knowledge and understanding of women’s health conditions. Recent researches have shown that women’s health goes beyond reproduction and fertility. Rather it covers health conditions that affect women disproportionately, manifest differently in women than in men or maybe unique to women. There’s also a prevalent stigmatization and misunderstanding of female-specific conditions. The question now is how can we better drive awareness, understanding and how can we meet the needs of women across their life stages? The good news is that there is a rising trend in women’s health and development of products tailored for women. Recent trends have increased awareness and focus on women’s health. With more education and de-stigmatization, we see more emphasis on female-specific conditions across life stages (whether it’s pre-family, pregnancy, post-partum or menopause). This is especially with increasing number of working women and women having to constantly juggle multiple things at home and at work; there is more focus on women’s health and emotional well-being. There is also a strong interest in holistic and natural approaches to women’s health along with the global trends on naturals. There is an acknowledgement of women’s health beyond reproduction and fertility. Finally, there is more demand for more personalized approaches to women’s healthcare.
Audience Take Away:
- It will enable the audience to understand that women represents 50% of global population and they are underserved in healthcare.
- It will enable the audience to understand that women tends to prioritize the needs of family members neglecting their own health.
- It will enable the audience to understand that there's relative absence of women in scientific and clinical studies resulting in poor knowledge and understanding of women's health conditions.
- It will enable the audience to understand that women health is beyond reproduction and fertility.
- There's urgent call to action on how to better drive awareness and understanding of women's healt
- It will enable the audience to understand how to meet the needs of women across life stages.
