GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES AND INNOVATIONS IN WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE

Women’s healthcare has seen significant advancement over the past few decades but challenges still remain in many parts of the world. From productive health to maternal mortality gender based health disparities, and increasing prevalence of non-communicable disease. These woman and girls suffer from high rate of maternal mortality, obstetrics fistula female cutting HIV/AIDS, malaria in pregnancy and cervical cancer. Although the Millennium Development Goals are being meet in some nations the majority of the goals will not be raised by 2015. In addition, insufficient attention is given to non-communicable disease and chronic disease such as diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, obesity and chronic respiratory disease. A life course approach  that includes improvements in earlier life factors such as diet and exercise in necessary to improve women’s long term health outcomes innovative diagnostic tools and treatments artists along with cost-effective health service delivery system are needed to make a significant impact on women’s and girls’ health worldwide.