Bridging the women’s health gap: addressing inequalities in medical research and care

Описание: Women's health research typically has a narrow scope, focusing solely on obstetric conditions. However, this limited focus disregards the diverse ways that sex and gender can affect female health throughout the entire lifespan. Historically, men have been treated as the default, with women assumed to experience the same health risks, symptoms, outcomes of disease, and side effects of medications, albeit in a smaller body.

This false assumption has been harmful for girls and women who, having been left out of clinical trials, now have a dearth of information on how diseases—such as heart attacks—present in them relative to men, and on the safety and effectiveness of drugs and interventions in their bodies.

This webinar examines recent developments in work aiming to bridge this gap, finally beginning to address the inequalities in medicine experienced by girls and women:

• Ana Langer discusses progress on the 2015 Women and Health framework, which highlighted the gender-based and sex-based disparities in health of women across the lifecourse compared with their male counterparts, in addition to recognising women as crucial providers of healthcare
• Cuilin Zhang presents cutting-edge research on modifiable risk factors for metabolic diseases in women over their life course and across generations, which will help to maintain their health into older age
• Roxana Mehran examines how the field of interventional cardiology, which is infamously male-biased, is moving towards improving inclusion of women in clinical trials

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