Women Rights and Global Health for Development

Pocchiari conference hall – ISS (Istituto Superiore di Sanità)
Rome, 9-10 March 2009

NIHMP, in cooperation with ISS (Istituto Superiore di Sanità), the Public Health Agency of Latium Region and San Camillo Forlanini hospital, organized the congress I diritti delle donne e la salute globale per lo sviluppo (Women Rights and Global Health for Development).

The congress was supported by Public Health Institutions, whose objective was to work in synergy in order to improve health services efficiency. The initiative consisted in a public discussion open to all citizens, associations and, in particular, to Italian and foreign women. It was also addressed to social and health workers, with the special objective of making professional retraining a “system” element. In this regard gender approach and global health have been particularly stressed.

The congress was a chance for the participants, the policy makers and the representatives of governmental, national and regional institutions to meet.

BENEFICIARIES
National Health System workers and associations involved in women’s health care and in international cooperation.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES
• Analyze women health problems at the global and local level;
• Assess the impact of the promotion of women rights on health determinants;
• Identify the main problems due to gender health inequalities, lack of prevention and health promotion, to the violence and sexual and reproductive health;
• Promote cooperation among citizens, institutions and associations in order to protect women’s right to health.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• Provide a survey on health conditions and determinants;
• Show the importance of women empowerment in all international agreements;
• Underline sexual and reproductive rights;
• Promote micro-lending as an exceptionally effective tool for women empowerment;
• Stress the importance of gender policies in health cooperation and point out health inequalities;
• Analyze the equity and suitability of the health system in a perspective approach;
• Underline the strategic value of the Progetto Obiettivo Materno Infantile (Mother and Child Objective Project) for the public health;
• Analyze the way health services meet the needs focusing attention to the territory, access to services, first reception, follow-up and assistance continuity.