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EU women’s (mental) health strategy: addressing social determinants

The eu women’s (mental) health strategy: addressing social determinants

Alongside addressing bias in women’s health research and treatment, social determinants such as poverty, discrimination, violence, and inequitable policies must be addressed through a life-course approach to policy.

The talk highlights that women worldwide live longer than men but also spend more years in ill health, noting that a sex-specific approach has yet to become established and that the current approach is strongly biased. It argues that clinical definitions and (psycho)pharmacology are largely based on data obtained from men, predominantly young white men in Western countries; research data therefore need to be disaggregated by sex, and women must be safely included in research during their reproductive years, menopause, and beyond. This perspective was set out in a 2024 Manifesto jointly developed by the European Institute of Women’s Health and approximately sixty organizations from fields such as gynecology, cardiology, mental health, and oncology. The talk also notes that social determinants such as poverty, discrimination, stress related to work–life balance, and (sexual) violence and abuse within families and the wider community place a greater burden on women; inequitable policies concerning menstruation, pregnancy, pay gaps, and pension gaps also have a major impact on health. These observations led to the development of the EU Women’s Health Strategy, presented at the European Parliament in February 2026. The strategy calls for a life-course approach and policies spanning the mental health crisis among adolescent girls, the reproductive years, and women’s health after menopause.

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