Women's health, as a theme, is a single factor that interests me. If our mothers are healthy, we would have a quality motherhood and a wealthy nation. The social, economic, environmental, and cultural factors in which women are able to negotiate, access, demand and provide health should be the policy within which health providers address the full physical and mental health of women. The expected benefits are drawn from strategies by governments to influence public health. The strategy is " to directly provide programs and services that are designed to meet the health needs of populations, (Turnock, B.J., 2016).”
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Women who are healthy, are able to engage in fruitful activities, acquire education and qualifications to enable them occupy positions of influence. Such people occupy high positions in the major institutions such as: media, law, computer, education, engineering, health, foundations, non-governmental, banking, business and government. "They allocate values for our society and shape the lives of all Americans. They participate in decisions that allocate value for society. They determine what has to be taught, 'news,' products to sell and the trendy fashions, (Dye and Ziegler, 2006).”
Women's physical and mental health can be the goal once these problems below are positively addressed (Fogel, C.I. 1994):
1. The status of women as far as salary, dual roles, politics, business, law and physical abuse go.
2. Women's health and labor force.
3. Women in social movement building.
4. Self-actualization.
5. Women in control of their own bodies.
6. Women health outside reproductive health, obstetrics and gynecology
7. Violence against women
8. sexual dysfunction, pregnancy and the gynecologic triad
9. Mental disorders in women.
10. Interventions addressing women related issues such as: teenage pregnancy, displaced homemakers, battered women, the aged, women offenders.
Addressing the above issues makes them a public matter. Women, in turn, will be allocated their fair share of collective burdens and benefits. The social benefits would be a quality long life for women, happiness, income and status.
REFERENCES:
Dye T. R. and Ziegler H. (2006) The Irony Of Democracy. Belmont, CA. Thomson Wadsworth
Fogel, C.I. (1994). women’s Healthcare. Sage Publications
Turnock, B.J. (2016). Essentials of Public Health (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA. Jones and Bartlett.
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