8 Common Women’s Health Issues to Know About

While both men and women contract various conditions, some health issues affect women differently and more commonly. [1] Furthermore, many women’s health conditions go undiagnosed and most drug trials do not include female test subjects. Even so, women bear exclusive health concerns, such as breast cancer, cervical cancer, menopause, and pregnancy. Women suffer higher heart attack deaths compared to men. Depression and anxiety exhibit more frequently among female patients. Urinary tract conditions present more often in females, and sexually transmitted diseases can cause more harm to women. Among the conditions that present most frequently in women, the following eight illnesses pose considerable health risks.

Heart Disease

In the United States, heart disease causes one in every four deaths among women. [2] Although the public considers heart disease a common issue among men, the condition affects males and females nearly equally. Yet, only 54 percent of women realize that heart disease is the top health condition threatening their gender. In the United States, 49 percent of all consumers suffer from high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or smoke; factors that contribute to heart disease.

Breast Cancer

Breast cancer, which typically originates in the lining of the milk ducts, can spread to other organs, and is the most aggressive cancer affecting the global female population. [3] The condition presents more among female populations in developed nations due to their extended life spans.

Initially, women afflicted with breast cancer may develop breast lumps. Most breast lumps are nonthreatening, but it is important for women to have each one checked by a care provider.

Ovarian and Cervical Cancer

Many people are not aware of the differences between ovarian and cervical cancer. [4] Cervical cancer originates in the lower uterus, while ovarian cancer starts in the fallopian tubes. While both conditions cause similar pain, cervical cancer also causes discharge and pain during intercourse.

While ovarian cancer presents extremely vague symptoms, the condition is very complex. Finally, Pap smears detect cervical but not ovarian cancer.

Gynecological Health

Bleeding and discharge are a normal part of the menstrual cycle. [5] However, added symptoms during menstruation may indicate health issues, and unusual symptoms, such as bleeding between menstruations and frequent urinating, can mimic other health conditions.

Vaginal issues could also indicate serious problems such as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or reproductive tract cancer. While care providers might treat mild infections easily, if left unchecked, they can lead to conditions such as infertility or kidney failure.

Pregnancy Issues

Pre-existing conditions can worsen during pregnancy, threatening the health of a mother and her child. [6] Asthma, diabetes, and depression can harm the mother and child during pregnancy if not managed properly.

Pregnancy can cause a healthy mother’s red blood cell count to drop, a condition called anemia, or induce depression. Another problem arises when a reproductive cell implants outside the uterus, making further gestation unfeasible. Fortunately, obstetricians can manage and treat common and rare health issues that emerge during pregnancies.

Autoimmune Diseases

Autoimmune disease occurs when body cells that eliminate threats, such as viruses, attack healthy cells. [7] As this condition continues to escalate among the population, researchers remain baffled as to why the condition affects mostly women. While many distinct autoimmune diseases exist, most share symptoms such as:

● Exhaustion
● Mild fever
● Pain
● Skin irritation
● Vertigo

Most of the autoimmune system rests in the stomach. Duly, many who suffer from this condition have resorted to natural healing practices, such as:

● Consuming less sugar
● Consuming less fat
● Lowering stress
● Reducing toxin intake

However, the best defense against autoimmune disease is early detection.

Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis weakens bones, allowing them to break easily. [8] Several factors can cause the condition that occurs mostly in women, such as:

● Age
● Alcohol consumption
● Certain prescriptions
● Genetics
● Lack of exercise
● Low body mass
● Smoking
● Steroid use

To detect the condition, care providers measure bone density using an X-ray or ultrasound diagnostic. While no cure exists for osteoporosis, care providers can prescribe treatment to impede illness progression, which might include dietary supplements, healthy lifestyle choices, or prescription medication.

Depression and Anxiety

Natural hormonal fluctuations can lead to depression or anxiety. [9] Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) occurs commonly among women, while premenstrual dysmorphic disorder (PMDD) presents similar, but greatly intensified, symptoms. Shortly after birth, many mothers acquire a form of depression called the “baby blues,” but perinatal depression causes similar – but much stronger – concerns, emotional shifts, sadness, and tiredness. Perimenopause, the shift into menopause, can also cause depression. No matter how intense the symptoms, care providers can provide relief with prescription or therapeutic treatments.

Health Technology for Women

Soon, new technologies will emerge to assist care providers in treating women’s health conditions. [10] Researchers have developed innovative medical treatments, such as a patient operated device that prepares women for breast reconstruction using carbon dioxide instead of needles and a blood test that can detect whether gestation has started outside of the fallopian tubes. Other developing medical technologies include an at home, do-it-yourself Pap smear and a test that determines pregnancy using saliva as a sample.

Women can lower the risk for cancers and other common illnesses with healthy habits and regular care provider visits. [11] However, in many underserved communities nurse practitioners (NPs) and nurse midwives fill the shortage created by lack of care providers, while covering service areas encompassing far too many clients. As the role of nurse practitioners in women’s health care needs increase, care provider organizations will need many more NPs to ensure positive health outcomes for women in these communities.

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Sources:

[1] U.S. National Library of Medicine
[2] Center for Disease Control and Prevention
[3] Medical News Today
[4] Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance
[5] Aria – Jefferson Health
[6] U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
[7] Prevention
[8] U. S. Department of Health and Human Services – USDA
[9] National Institutes of Health
[10] US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
[11] MIT Technology Review

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We’ve come a long way since 1995–and it is time to celebrate women and their achievements. But it is also time to take stock of how women’s rights are fulfilled in the world –especially the right to health. Twenty years after countries signed pledges in the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action, women still face many health problems and we must re-commit to addressing them.

Here are ten of the main issues regarding women’s health that keep me awake at night:

Cancer: Two of the most common cancers affecting women are breast and cervical cancers. Detecting both these cancers early is key to keeping women alive and healthy. The latest global figures show that around half a million women die from cervical cancer and half a million from breast cancer each year. The vast majority of these deaths occur in low and middle income countries where screening, prevention and treatment are almost non-existent, and where vaccination against human papilloma virus needs to take hold. 

Reproductive health: Sexual and reproductive health problems are responsible for one third of health issues for women between the ages of 15 and 44 years. Unsafe sex is a major risk factor – particularly among women and girls in developing countries. This is why it is so important to get services to the 222 million women who aren’t getting the contraception services they need.

Maternal health: Many women are now benefitting from massive improvements in care during pregnancy and childbirth introduced in the last century. But those benefits do not extend everywhere and in 2013, almost 300 000 women died from complications in pregnancy and childbirth. Most of these deaths could have been prevented, had access to family planning and to some quite basic services been in place.

HIV: Three decades into the AIDS epidemic, it is young women who bear the brunt of new HIV infections. Too many young women still struggle to protect themselves against sexual transmission of HIV and to get the treatment they require. This also leaves them particularly vulnerable to tuberculosis – one of the leading causes of death in low-income countries of women 20–59 years.

Sexually transmitted infections: I’ve already mentioned the importance of protecting against HIV and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection (the world’s most common STI). But it is also vital to do a better job of preventing and treating diseases like gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis. Untreated syphilis is responsible for more than 200,000 stillbirths and early foetal deaths every year, and for the deaths of over 90 000 newborns.

Violence against women: Women can be subject to a range of different forms of violence, but physical and sexual violence – either by a partner or someone else – is particularly invidious. Today, one in three women under 50 has experienced physical and/or sexual violence by a partner, or non-partner sexual violence – violence which affects their physical and mental health in the short and long-term. It’s important for health workers to be alert to violence so they can help prevent it, as well as provide support to people who experience it.

Mental health: Evidence suggests that women are more prone than men to experience anxiety, depression, and somatic complaints – physical symptoms that cannot be explained medically. Depression is the most common mental health problem for women and suicide a leading cause of death for women under 60. Helping sensitise women to mental health issues, and giving them the confidence to seek assistance, is vital.

Noncommunicable diseases: In 2012, some 4.7 million women died from noncommunicable diseases before they reached the age of 70 —most of them in low- and middle-income countries. They died as a result of road traffic accidents, harmful use of tobacco, abuse of alcohol, drugs and substances, and obesity — more than 50% of women are overweight in Europe and the Americas. Helping girls and women adopt healthy lifestyles early on is key to a long and healthy life.

Being young: Adolescent girls face a number of sexual and reproductive health challenges: STIs, HIV, and pregnancy. About 13 million adolescent girls (under 20) give birth every year. Complications from those pregnancies and childbirth are a leading cause of death for those young mothers. Many suffer the consequences of unsafe abortion.

Getting older: Having often worked in the home, older women may have fewer pensions and benefits, less access to health care and social services than their male counterparts. Combine the greater risk of poverty with other conditions of old age, like dementia, and older women also have a higher risk of abuse and generally, poor health.

When I lie awake thinking of women and their health globally, I remind myself: the world has made a lot of progress in recent years. We know more, and we are getting better at applying our knowledge. At providing young girls a good start in life.

And there has been an upsurge in high-level political will – evidenced most recently in the United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. Use of services, especially those for sexual and reproductive health, has increased in some countries. Two important factors that influence women’s health – namely, school enrolment rates for girls and greater political participation of women – have risen in many parts of the world.

But we are not there yet. In 2015, in too many countries, “women’s empowerment” remains a pipedream – little more than a rhetorical flourish added to a politician’s speech. Too many women are still missing out on the opportunity to get educated, support themselves, and obtain the health services they need, when they need them.

That’s why WHO is working so hard to strengthen health systems and ensure that countries have robust financing systems and sufficient numbers of well-trained, motivated health workers. That’s why WHO, with UN and world partners, are coming together at the UN Commission on Status of Women from 9-20 March 2015 in New York. We will look again at pledges made in the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action with a view to renewing the global effort to remove the inequalities that put decent health services beyond so many women’s reach.

And that is why WHO and its partners are developing a new global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health, and working to enshrine the health of women in the post 2015 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This means not only setting targets and indicators, but catalysing commitments in terms of policy, financing and action, to ensure that the future will bring health to all women and girls – whoever they are, wherever they live.

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Men conquered space, and deal with the device
the female universe still cannot. That’s why
keep counting our everyday habits and problems
intricate and inexplicable. Seems so simple
they have to decipher things literally
words.

29 Apr 2014

Author:

Tatyana Pankova

1. Must be able to walk in heels

If a man’s duty is to defend his homeland, then the women’s mission to save the world lies in beauty. Heels miraculously turn any lady into a long-legged beauty, so the inability to use this female “weapon” is perceived in the ranks of the female army with shame.

2. Get up on time, but start getting ready 10 minutes before exit

Therefore, in an extreme situation, we do not get lost and in case of danger we will be able to prepare for evacuation as soon as possible.

3. Going to the bathroom in groups

During these two or three minutes of solitude with a friend, we, by the way, have time to discuss, decide and change our minds so much!

4. Bad mood is not always associated with certain “days”

Attributing any female problem and grief to hormonal outbreaks is stupid. In fact, we have a thousand reasons for frustration, and not just one “calendar”.

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5. Squeak at the sight of puppies and cats

Science will take our side here. All children hear high notes better than adults, and small cute animals are the same kids who need care and tenderness. Therefore, instinctively the voice takes on a squeaky form.

6.

Love variety shows and serials

We are able to empathize. And we are really terribly interested in whether the main characters will get married and how they will guess that that boy next door is actually their illegitimate son. And also, will a retired sword swallower make it to the final of the show, and what will the psychics of Miss World 2008 predict. This is much more exciting than watching eternal political battles and boring football.

7. Deciding on a new haircut for six months

Cutting your bangs is a responsible step that you need to courageously decide on.

8. Transferring the contents of one bag to another

“Why not just walk around with the same bag all the time?” the men are surprised. But we know that one bag for all the outfits and seasons is a bad form.

9. Opening the mouth when we paint the eyes

Don’t men realize that a wide-open eye is easier to make up?

10.

Case size

Is a huge suitcase for a couple of days of rest an occasion for jokes? To ridicule foresight should be ashamed. What if it rains? And suddenly on reception to the queen will call? And how can hair survive without a daily mask?

11. Wear thin tights in winter

If beauty demands, then we are ready to make sacrifices.

12. Why do we need tears

Crying really makes it easier.

13. Kiss each other when they meet

We are peace-loving creatures, and we are not sorry to show tenderness, unlike sullen and ferocious men.

14. Always answering the question “What happened?” answer – “Nothing”

We want a man to show more attention to relationships, try and persuade, and not get an instant correct answer to a complex and vital question.

15. Cry in front of a mirror

It is important for us that we also look beautiful in sadness.

16.

Full closet, but nothing to wear

Oh, this fine line between the quality and quantity of clothes, accessible to understanding only for women.

17. Why wear uncomfortable clothes

Beauty again requires sacrifice, sometimes for the sake of a pair of brand new boats you can suffer a day.

18. Make a wish when the numbers on the clock match

Because we want to believe in good omens.

19. Look in the mirror if you forgot something and returned

Because we believe in good omens, but we do not forget that there are also bad ones.

20. Teach your man how to neatly fold things in the closet, but sometimes stuff your own things there as you please

Yes, there are spots on the sun. Naturally, this is the first and last time.

21. We don’t like to eat alone

We do not particularly try to prepare a culinary masterpiece for ourselves – there is no one to brag to. So, we cook and eat any quick tasteless nonsense.

22. Do not delete old messages

Just because they are pleasant and you want to re-read them periodically, like old soulful letters.

23. Always stock up

The house should have a lot of food, sugar, salt, spices. What about a crisis? War? Aliens?

24. To be jealous of inanimate objects

If the main love in a man’s life is his car, then it also becomes the main rival in the life of his woman.

25. Why do we need so many shoes

A woman does not like monotony. Routine scares us the most, so every day we want to look new, and buying new shoes miraculously diversifies everyday life and cheers up.

26. Women’s handwriting is better than men’s

Rounded letters, soft shapes, smooth lines, aesthetics in everything – all this is for the female part.

27. Believe in friendship between a man and a woman

Most of us not only believe in the purity of such friendship, but also sincerely know how to be friends with a man, without going beyond such a relationship.

28. Think that men should be able to read our thoughts and guess our desires

Yes, we love to dream and believe that dreams do come true.

29. To enjoy a whole day in shops

We believe that you should enjoy every minute of your life. Therefore, while men are bored and suffering from shopping, we have made this tedious process of shopping a pleasant ritual for ourselves.

30. Dieting

If we refuse meat and mayonnaise, then we do not necessarily starve ourselves. We just want to keep our body in good shape and take care of proper nutrition.

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