Municipalities are breaking down reserves due to youth care shortages: 'All signals are red'

Public Affairs and Public Relations for WOMEN Inc.

Knowledge of healthcare is largely based on research among men. As a result, there is insufficient knowledge about the specific differences between men and women, both somatic and psychosocial. This has major consequences: incorrect diagnoses, unnecessarily high healthcare costs and a lower quality of life for women.

Women's Network WOMEN Inc. has been working for some time to get gender-specific healthcare on the political and social agenda. For example, WOMEN Inc. founded the Gender and Health Alliance in 2014, partly to identify what gaps still exist in knowledge about gender and health. This spring, this led to the Gender and Health Knowledge Agenda, which was presented to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport on June 16, 2015. With success: the knowledge agenda received a lot of attention in the media and healthcare minister Edith Schippers has now promised that extra money will be released for gender-specific healthcare in the coming period. A wonderful milestone!