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KMID : 0439019960050010023
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Korean Journal of Nursing Query
1996 Volume.5 No. 1 p.23 ~ p.35
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Women´s Health Issues towards A Better World
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박정은/Park, Jung Eun
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Abstract
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Global Commission on Woman´s Health(1994, Cairo) has identified the six areas in women´s health that illustrate the main risk factors leading to mortality and morbidity in in women of all ages. The subsections include discussions on nutrition, reproductive health, the health consequences of violence, ageing, life style-related health conditions and work environment. These health problems are also applicable to women in Korea. This paper examined Korean women´s health status in response to the world women´s health issues.
It is imperative to look at women´s health within a life span perspective. This is because the health of a woman in one period of her life has an impact not only on health in subsequent periods, but on the generation to come. We are biologically and physiologically different from men. In addition women are subject to gender difference which have consequences on their health status. There are different practices in feeding and in seeking treatment for boys and girls, as well as differential application of diagnostic and treatment procedures between men and women. The disadvantaged economic, social and illegal status of women makes them particularly vulnerable to the risk of ill-health and injury, too. Health is not a commodity. It is not a negotiable good that can be bought and sold for a price or traded off against economic gain.
Therefore women´s development, in practical, could not be achieved by equal opportunity in education and employment, but should be obtained by the re-definition and refinement of women´s health and by supportive health policy. To be reached at this goal, studies identifying women´s health status in all aspects of health issues for women is in constant demand.
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