Health
Women’s Health Concern (WHC) provides an independent service to advise, reassure and educate women about their health concerns, to enable them to work in partnership with their own medical practitioners and health advisers.
There are several ways you can help improve women’s health through your clinic, practice, community, or organization. Whether you want to take on one project as an individual or several as a group, there’s something for anyone interested in encouraging women to practice prevention to be healthy and safe.
Women’s Health Action is a charitable trust with the aims of providing women with high quality information and education services to enable them to maintain their health and make informed choices about their health care.
The health of women and girls is of particular concern because, in many societies, they are disadvantaged by discrimination rooted in sociocultural factors. For example, women and girls face increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. Common illnessesSome diseases are more common among women or affect them in a different way from men. Others affect women only, including a number of cancers. Dr Trisha Macnair takes a look at these, as well as the specific consequences of smoking and alcohol for women.
