Women and Health: Today's Evidence Tomorrow's Agenda
Abstract
This report was produced under the overall direction of Assistant Directors-General Tim Evans and Daisy Mafubelu. The editorial team members were, in alphabetical order, Carla AbouZahr, Isabelle de Zoysa and Claudia García Moreno. Valuable inputs were provided by Ties Boerma, Andrew Cassels, Susan Holck, Colin Mathers and Thomson Prentice. Contributions were received from: Jonathan Abrahams, Fiona Adshead, Adelio Antunes, Timothy Armstrong, Gini Arnold, Parijat Baijal, Anand Balachandran, John Beard, Douglas Bettcher, Michel Beusenberg, Paul Bloem, Monika Blössner, Sophie Bonjour, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Francesco Branca, Nathalie Broutet, Marie-Noel Brune, Tony Burton, Alexander Butchart, Txema Calleja, Diarmid CampbellLundrum, Guy Carrin, Andrew Cassels, Somnath Chatterji, Rudi Coninx, Melanie Cowan, Catherine d’Arcanques, Mercedes de Onis, Bruce Dick, Tarun Dua, Varatharajan Durairaj, David Evans, Jane Ferguson, Daniela Fuhr, Lisa Garbus, Peter Ghys, Philip Glaziou, Fiona Gore, Rifat Hossein, Ahmadreza Hosseinpoor, Mie Inoue, Véronique Joseph, Mary Kay Kindhauser, Evelyn Kortum, Tanya Kuchenmuller, Jennifer Lee, Sun Goo Lee, Wim Van Lerberghe, Doris Ma Fat, José Martines, Elizabeth Mason, Pamela Sabina Mbabazi, Christopher Mikton, Charles Mock, Nirmala Naidoo, Francis Ndowa, Joerdis Ott, Heather Papowitz, Razia Pendse, Judy Polsky, Yongyuth Pongsupap, Vladimir Poznyak, Annette Prüss-Ustün, Eva Rehfuess, Chen Reis, Leanne Riley, Lisa Rogers, Ritu Sadana, Shekhar Saxena, Lale Say, George Schmid, Archana Narendra Shah, Iqbal Shah, Ferid Shannoun, Kurup Anand Sivasankara, Amani Siyam, Yves Souteyrand, Marcus Stalhofer, Claudia Stein, Gretchen Stevens, Joanna Tempowski, Shyam Thapa, Andreas Ullrich, Constanza Vallenas, Annette Verster, Susan Wilburn, Sachiyo Yoshida and Dongbao Yu. Valuable comments were provided by Mahmoud Fatallah, Sharon Fonn, Adrienne Germain, Piroska Ostlin, Sundari Ravindran, Sheila Tlou and Tomris Türmen. Special thanks go to the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School – Robert Jin, Ronald C. Kessler and Nancy Sampson – for the analysis of women and mental ill-health data. Further writing support was provided by Gary Humphries and Diane Summers. The report was edited by David Bramley and proof-read by Diana Hopkins. The index was prepared by June Morrison. Design and graphics were by Steve Ewart and Christophe Grangier. Print and web versions were prepared by Gael Kernen. Production editing by Melanie Lauckner. Administrative support in preparation of the report was provided by Sue Piccolo. WHO is grateful to the Aspen Institute’s Realizing Rights: Ethical Globalization Initiative for financial support to the production and dissemination of this report.