How can a gender analysis be included when reforming the EU and Member States public health sectors?
The acknowledgement that gender and health equality is a core principle of the health sector must be translated into commitments at all levels throughout the health sector. To be able to implement gender and health equality policies, gender concerns have to be incorporated into the goals, strategies, tactics, policies, processes, management behaviours, pay systems, job descriptions, budgetary allocations and the cultural practices of organisations promoting health or delivering health services. EWL would like to highlight several important ways in which policy makers and planners can include gender issues in the area of EU public health: 1. By improving gender aware data collection, monitoring, research and evaluation in the European Union Research must be reconfigured to be more gender-sensitive. All data collected should be disaggregated by sex, age and socio-economic background, and women as well as men should be included in the design and implementation of epidemiological and clini
