Title page -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Executive summary -- Chapter 1: understanding women's health in the world today -- Women around the world -- Increasing life expectancy -- The health transition -- Socioeconomic inequalities adversely affect health -- Gender inequities affect women's health -- Women amid conflicts and crisis -- Women and the health-care system -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: The girl child -- Still too many deaths of infants and children -- Sex differentials in health -- Female genital mutilation -- Abuse and maltreatment -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Adolescent girl -- A time of good health but also risk -- Puberty and sexual debut -- Adolescent pregnancy -- Sexually transmitted infections -- Substance use -- Poor diet and physical inactivity -- Mental health in adolescence -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Adult women: the reproductive years -- Women's health during the reproductive years -- Maternal health -- Women and HIV/AIDS -- Sexually transmitted infections -- Cervical cancer -- Infertility -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Adult women -- Mortality and burden of disease -- Women, depression and suicide -- Risk factors for chronic disease -- Violence -- Illness and use of health services -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Older women -- Women and ageing -- Socioeconomic influences on health in older women -- What are the health problems that older women face? -- Managing disabilities - a matter of prevention and care -- Caring for older women -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Policy implications -- Leadership -- Responsive health services -- Universal coverage -- Public policy -- Tracking progress -- Conclusion -- Index.

This is a report on women and health - both women's health needs and their contribution to the health of societies. Women's health has long been a concern for WHO, but today it has become an urgent priority. This report explains why. Using current data, it takes stock of what we know now about the health of women throughout their lives and across the different regions of the world. Highlighting key issues - some of which are familiar, others that merit far greater attention - the report identifies opportunities for making more rapid progress. It points to areas in which better information - plus policy dialogue at national, regional and international levels - could lead to more effective approaches.

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