scholarly journals Determinants of women´s health in Europe: using large open data collections to unveil the hidden part of the iceberg

2017 ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
Lourdes Cantarero-Arévalo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Open Data ◽  
World Health ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Data Collections

Open data collections can be powerful, providing democratic tools to illustrate women’s health across Europe. This article discusses the benefits offered by the large volume of open-access data in comparison with access-restrictive big data, and provides an overview of the main databases publically available which gather sex-disaggregated data information, as well as of their strengths and limitations (The World Health Organization European Health for All database, EUROSTAT, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation – Global Burden of Disease data and OECD data). Examples are provided to illustrate the outcomes that can be obtained from the different databases, with special emphasis on the socioeconomic determinants of women’s health (education, income and wealth, employment and place of residence) in the European Region. Open online data collections accessible to all can be used as tools to argue in favour of not only the implementation of health-care policies, but also social and economic policies aimed at improving women’s health in Europe. However, open-access online data collections have certain drawbacks worth considering such as the need for continuous monitoring and updating, ensuring the reliability of data provided by all countries, and guaranteeing that individuals cannot be identified through links between clinical and socioeconomic data.

scholarly journals Obstetrics and gynaecology in the era of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 4777
Author(s):  
Angela Mary George ◽  
Daniel Manoj ◽  
Sowmya Ramani ◽  
Lalropuii . ◽  
Murugan Timiri Palani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
World Health ◽  
Significant Morbidity ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynaecology ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. The alarming levels of spread and severity of the viral disease has resulted in significant morbidity and mortality. Women often face the highest risk of suffering devastating losses from the pandemic. Historically, women’s health has always been inadequately represented in responses to global outbreaks. Resources are often funnelled away from women’s health services towards targets perceived to be more important. Pregnant women with suspected, probable or confirmed COVID-19, should have access to obstetric and foetal medicine, neonatal care as well as mental health and psychosocial support, at facilities ready to tackle maternal and neonatal complications. In this article, we attempt to look at the challenges faced by gynaecologists because of this pandemic, and provide an overview on the current protocols in antenatal care, foetal care, childbirth, and oncological care.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the quality of life of women in the climacteric attended by the basic care of the municipality of Sinop-MT

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
A. T. Santos ◽  
L. S. S. Biazzi ◽  
P. P. Cavalcanti ◽  
J. C. M. Primão
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Pathological Process ◽  
World Health ◽  
Basic Care ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines climacteric as a biological phase of life and not a pathological process, which refers to the transition between the reproductive and non-reproductive periods of women's lives. The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of life of climacteric women attended by the Carlos Scholtão Family Health Units and Jardim Botânico. This is a quantitative study, in which 41 women were evaluated, with symptoms related to the climacteric, age from 40 to 65 years, without hormonal therapy. To collect data, two questionnaires were applied, first one with questions related to socio-demographic data, health status and life habits, and to collect data on women's health, the Women's Health Questionnaire (QSM), developed and validated by Hunter in 1992. Through the study it was demonstrated that the climacteric symptoms did not significantly interfere in the quality of life of the women surveyed. It was also observed that even without reported symptoms, many reported using antidepressant medications, which may interfere with the intensity of the climacteric symptomatology. Research has shown to be different from most studies that deal with women's quality of life in the climacteric, which reinforces the importance of local studies with different approaches. Through the research the interest was aroused by the self-knowledge in the participants and evidenced that the nursing has an important role in the incentive of self-care. At the end of the research it was observed that some women had difficulty understanding the questionnaires, which suggests the application of other methodologies in future studies.

The World Health Organization Policy on Global Women's Health: New Frontiers

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 2115-2118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Requejo Harris ◽  
Mario Merialdi ◽  
Francesca Merzagora ◽  
Francesco Aureli ◽  
Flavia Bustreo
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Organization Policy ◽  
Health Organization

scholarly journals Building an Open Resources Repository for COVID-19 Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Hu ◽  
Weihe Wendy Guan ◽  
Xinyan Zhu ◽  
Yuanzheng Shao ◽  
Lingbo Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mainland China ◽  
Open Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Health ◽  
Digital Object Identifier ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health Organization

AbstractThe COVID-19 outbreak is a global pandemic declared by the World Health Organization, with rapidly increasing cases in most countries. A wide range of research is urgently needed for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic, such as transmissibility, geographic spreading, risk factors for infections, and economic impacts. Reliable data archive and sharing are essential to jump-start innovative research to combat COVID-19. This research is a collaborative and innovative effort in building such an archive, including the collection of various data resources relevant to COVID-19 research, such as daily cases, social media, population mobility, health facilities, climate, socioeconomic data, research articles, policy and regulation, and global news. Due to the heterogeneity between data sources, our effort also includes processing and integrating different datasets based on GIS (Geographic Information System) base maps to make them relatable and comparable. To keep the data files permanent, we published all open data to the Harvard Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/2019ncov), an online data management and sharing platform with a permanent Digital Object Identifier number for each dataset. Finally, preliminary studies are conducted based on the shared COVID-19 datasets and revealed different spatial transmission patterns among mainland China, Italy, and the United States.

scholarly journals Twenty Years of Data Linkage in The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Loos ◽  
Gita Mishra ◽  
Annette Dobson ◽  
Leigh Tooth
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Data Linkage ◽  
Data Access ◽  
National Study ◽  
Australian Longitudinal Study ◽  
Data Collections

IntroductionLinked health record collections, when combined with large longitudinal surveys, are a rich research resource to inform policy development and clinical practice across multiple sectors. Objectives and ApproachThe Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) is a national study of over 57,000 women in four cohorts. Survey data collection commenced in 1996. Over the past 20 years, ALSWH has also established an extensive data linkage program. The aim of this poster is to provide an overview of ALSWH’s program of regularly up-dated linked data collections for use in parallel with on-going surveys, and to demonstrate how data are made widely available to research collaborators. ResultsALSWH surveys collect information on health conditions, ageing, reproductive characteristics, access to health services, lifestyle, and socio-demographic factors. Regularly updated linked national and state administrative data collections add information on health events, health outcomes, diagnoses, treatments, and patterns of service use. ALSWH’s national linked data collections, include Medicare Benefits Schedule, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, the National Death Index, the Australian Cancer Database, and the National Aged Care Data Collection. State and Territory hospital collections include Admitted Patients, Emergency Department and Perinatal Data. There are also substudies, such as the Mothers and their Children’s Health Study (MatCH), which involves linkage to children’s educational records. ALSWH has an internal Data Access Committee along with systems and protocols to facilitate collaborative multi-sectoral research using de-identified linked data. Conclusion / ImplicationsAs a large scale Australian longitudinal multi-jurisdictional data linkage and sharing program, ALSWH is a useful model for anyone planning similar research.

scholarly journals Determinants of Maternal Mortality Rate in The Kyrgyz Republic Regions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurbek Madmarov ◽  
Metin Bayrak
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
World Health ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
Maternal Mortality Rate ◽  
The World ◽  
Determinants Of Maternal Mortality

Population is an important factor in development of a country. As a constraint, not only the size of the population is important but also its quality in the development process. Women’s health is considered all over the world and the data about this aspect is published by the World Health Organization annually. Among others maternal mortality rate is one of the major problems affecting women’s health and population. Everyday 830 women die due to the problems related to pregnancy and childbirth in the world. While this number is relatively lower in the developed countries, it is higher in the underdeveloped and developing countries. In addition, the maternal mortality rate in the Caucasus and Central Asia ranks in the worst third in the world. In the Kyrgyz Republic, this rate is 82.083333 per 10000 live births which is the worst in the region. Therefore, it is among one of the countries where the maternal mortality should be reduced in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals. In this study, the determinants of maternal mortality rate are analyzed in the Kyrgyz Republic regions during 2000-2015 by using static panel data methods fixed effects and random effects. The findings show that there are significant decreasing effects of GDP, number of assistant physicians, births by skilled staff, improved sanitation facilities, and gender wage equality, there are significant increasing effects of health expenditures, medical facilities, and poverty among women on the maternal mortality.

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