Women’s Health Worsened in 2021 as Many Women Lack Access to Health Screenings and Preventive Care
More than 1.5 billion women around the world lack essential health screenings, a problem that experts attribute to food insecurity, poverty, lack of educational opportunities and threats to their personal safety, according to a new report created by Hologic, a global medical technology company, and Gallup, an analytics company that specializes in polling.These findings reflect an overall lack of prioritization placed on women's health — by both decision-makers and women themselves, says Rosemary Morgan, PhD, associate scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, who was not involved in creating the report. “A lack of prioritization by decision-makers means less money going towards women’s health and less research on women’s health,” she says.From a young age, women are programmed to take care of others and put…