The Government is launching a consultation to help shape the upcoming Women’s Health Strategy, which will set out an ambitious and positive agenda on women’s health, aiming to tackle existing health inequalities faced by women and support the Government's commitment to extend healthy life expectancy by 5 years by 2035.
To ensure that the strategy is evidence-based and reflects what women identify as priorities, the Government wants to hear from women across the country about their experiences of health and the health and social care system. Ministers want to understand more about issues that only affect women (for example, gynaecological conditions or menstrual health), and also issues that affect both men and women but may be more prevalent in women or affect men and women differently.
There is strong evidence of the need for this greater focus. For example, in Britain, women have a longer life expectancy than men, but they also spend a greater proportion of their lives in ill health and disability. In recent years, healthy life expectancy has also fallen for women but has remained stable for men.
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