Women’s Health
The
amount of men who smokes is ten times bigger than the amount of smoking women.
Nevertheless, owing to today’s intensive cigarette commercials pointed at
females, the number of young women-smokers rises quickly. Though it is much
harder for women to quit smoking, when comparing with men. Women are more likely
to come back to this harmful habit.
Among all people who have HIV in Africa, more than 61% are female. 43% of all the people who have HIV in the Carib are also women. In Asia, Latin America and Europe the amount of women who live with HIV is constantly increasing.
From 15% to 71% of all the women in the Earth have endured sexual or physical violence that perpetrated sexual partners at different moments of women’s lives. This violence touches both economic and social spheres. The abuse practically always results in serious problems with health, from bruises and venereal diseases to depression and chronic illnesses. Statistics indicate that every fifth woman is reported to undergo sexual violence before she is 15.
Though the amount of early marriages decrease, millions of young girls are expected to get married being under age during the next few years. This is the third part of all the youthful girls in nonindustrialized poor countries that are seeking to develop their resources by industrialization (except China). Young hitched girls frequently know nothing about sexual life, the danger of venereal diseases and AIDS.
More than 12 million young girls give birth to children each year.
Day after day, 1500 female and about 12 000 babies die from complexities during delivery or pregnancy, which could be prevented.
In many regions women are responsible for preparing meal. While cooking over customary stoves or at the open fire, women inhale a mixture of thousands of contaminants daily. These pollutants are the reason of half a million yearly deaths from chronic lung diseases amongst female all over the world. When comparing with men, only 12% of them die from chronic lung diseases which are caused by air pollutants every year. In pregnant women, exposition of the evolving foetus to these deleterious contaminants can lead to stillbirth and low weight of a newborn.
All over the world, female of all ages have the essentially higher danger to become outwardly deteriorated than male. But still, female do not have the right and possibility to get the right medical treatment, often because of their incapacity to travel alone.