Why Women's Health​

Our specific life experiences impact our health. Women-centred health services provide care that recognizes and addresses all the factors that support our well-being.​

• Health matters

• Sex & gender                                                              

• Health services​

Biology (sex), gender (social roles, identity, relations) and diversity (age, ethnicity, location) interact with and impact our health. These differences mean women experience life differently from men. These differences range from the way our bodies react to treatments and medications to the power and influence we have in society, to the way we experience the world as daughters, mothers, caregivers, students and workers. ​

Biology​

There are many factors that contribute to our health and well-being that are different from men. Women:

• Experience symptoms and react differently to diseases than men, like heart disease

• React differently to treatment and medications, both when pregnant and not

• Are more vulnerable to chronic conditions or diseases that limit mobility and reduce quality of life like multiple sclerosis,SLEEP Apnea.

• Are more vulnerable to conditions such as osteoporosis (low-density bones) and suffer from different types of cancer, like breast and cervical. 

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