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Improving maternity care through women’s voices : the women’s health strategy continues a long process of advocacy
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Creed, Fabiola and Marland, Hilary (2023) Improving maternity care through women’s voices : the women’s health strategy continues a long process of advocacy. [Online]. (https://www.historyandpolicy.org/news)University of London.
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Abstract
Published in July 2022 by the Department of Health and Social Care, the Women’s Health Strategy for England (WHS) acknowledged that women’s health has been long neglected. Following a call for evidence, the report was based on over 11,000 responses from the public, researchers, charities, and organisations and focused on a wide range of priority areas, including reproductive health and fertility treatments, gynaecological conditions, cancer, mental health, and healthy ageing. The respondents highlighted gender health inequalities across the country, the need to improve women’s access to medical services for female-specific illnesses and to address the intersectional disparities that affect women: age, ethnicity, disability and socioeconomic background. Fertility, pregnancy, pregnancy loss and postnatal support was the second most selected topic for inclusion in the WHS, which set out a series of ambitions. These included extending personalised care, and reducing neonatal and maternal deaths and disparities in outcomes and experiences. The importance of women’s voices being heard and responded to in determining future policies was also strongly emphasised throughout the WHS. However, responses to the report, while lauding its goals, have pointed to the apparent absence of funding to deliver the strategy and achieve the report’s ambitions.
Item Type: | Digital Scholarly Resource | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | History & Policy | ||||||
Publisher: | University of London | ||||||
Official Date: | 15 March 2023 | ||||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Free Access (unspecified licence, 'bronze OA') |
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