Blueprint to Close the Women%E2%80%99s Health Gap 2025

Quantifying the drivers: How to close the gap2 The core elements of the women’s health gap indicate a need for better data, more effective interventions, improved care delivery, the inclusion of all women, and increased investment. Taking the following steps in 2025 and beyond may help to close the women’s health gap: Improving the accuracy of data collection and standards could help clarify the true burden of disease, particularly for women-specific conditions and those that affect women differently or disproportionately. Further, accurately counting maternal health conditions is essential for understanding the implications for the long-term health of all women and children. Research that includes and emphasizes women and their unique needs could help to dispel misperceptions and unknowns about conditions that affect women specifically, differently or disproportionately. Research could help to create a better understanding of conditions specific to women and illuminate disparities. Sex-disaggregated analysis of existing and future research could help reveal how women are affected by many conditions disproportionately or differently from men. Sex-disaggregated results enable an understanding of treatment efficacy and effectiveness. Additionally, studying the second X chromosome,64 hormonal health and hormonal cycles and the role they play in women’s health outcomes is needed. Research funding and a focus on women-specific conditions that affect adolescent girls is a large gap and opportunity. Delivering gender-appropriate and evidence- based healthcare, through healthcare delivery systems designed for women and equipped to address health-related social needs – including resources such as food, safe housing, childcare or transport – could improve health outcomes for women. The current healthcare delivery system often perpetuates preventable disability and mortality for women worldwide. There is a need for rapid translation of known evidence-based medicine into clinical education and CPGs that reflect sex-based differences. No number of attempts to count, study, analyse or deliver better care to women will work without concentrated efforts to address racial, ethnic, geographical, socioeconomic and other disparities within countries and on a global scale. Stakeholders can consider how to acknowledge and address these differences and promote solutions that achieve health equity. Additional funding – whether for clinical and translational research, public health education led by women in their communities or the development of innovative interventions – is needed to accelerate progress. Public and private investments in care delivery, education and social support services can prevent and treat disease and improve healthy longevity.Count women Study womenCare for women Include all women Invest in women Blueprint to Close the Women’s Health Gap: How to Improve Lives and Economies for All 13