Stronger women's health: Info stand offers important insights!

Stronger women's health: Info stand offers important insights!

Berlin, Deutschland - On May 22, 2025, health city councilor Oliver Schworck and the staff for quality, patient safety and communication (QPK) are increasingly being strengthened to strengthen women's health and the well -being of women. The aim is to raise awareness of gender -sensitive health issues and enable access to important information. The focus is on topics such as health risks, illnesses, therapies and social factors. Interested parties are invited to visit the QPK's information stand together with the women's health center (FFGZ) in order to find out about relevant topics such as endometriosis, HPV and complaints in menopause.

Oliver Schworck illustrates the importance of taking into account the specific health needs of women. This initiative is particularly relevant because the international day of women's health, which has been celebrated since 1987 on May 28th, indicates the challenges and opportunities in women's health. The initiative comes from the "Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network" (Lacwhn), which focuses on this important topic worldwide.

gender -specific health research

The importance of gender -sensitive health research cannot be ignored. Studies show that diseases have gender -specific differences in symptoms and course. For example, heart attacks and depression in women are different from men. The differentiation of gender aspects has far -reaching consequences for diagnosis, therapy and prevention of diseases, which also becomes clear in the recommendations of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Over the years, however, research has often focused on male subjects, which has led to a so -called "gender data gap". This lack of resilient data often disadvantages women and their special health needs.

Numerous funded studies of the BMBF examine gender -related differences in health care and funding. In particular, there is a focus on reproductive health, which includes topics such as fertility and endometriosis. The latter affects about two million women in Germany and is known to diagnose and treat them symptomatically. Therefore, five research associations support the research of endometriosis in order to improve prevention, diagnosis and therapy structures.

interactive technologies and gender -specific strategies

The BMBF also promotes the development of interactive technologies that aim to close gender-specific knowledge and data gaps in medicine. Another focus is on gender -sensitive approaches to optimize the treatment of diseases from a gender -sensitive perspective. Individual factors such as gender, age and lifestyle play a central role. In mental illnesses, especially depression, women often suffer from inadequate diagnosis, since symptoms are often perceived differently.

The initiative to improve the quality of life by considering gender -related peculiarities in research is supported both by a funding measure "gender health" and by the "gender aspects at a glance" guideline. The aim is to design research in such a way that gender -specific differences are recognized and integrated into medical practice.

For everyone who wants to learn more about the specific health of women, the information stand in Berlin offers a good opportunity. The strengthening of women's health and access to relevant information are steps in the right direction to sustainably improve health care for women.

For more information on these topics, readers can read the complete reports on berlin.de , bmbf.de and health research-bmbf.de Read.