Changing The Future Of Women’s Health
However it was later criticised for not including violence as an explicit target, the “missing target”. In the evaluation of MDG 3, violence remained a major barrier to achieving the goals.
The next phase was the specific funding of large scale epidemiology studies and clinical trials focussing on women’s health such as the Women’s Health Initiative , the largest disease prevention study conducted in the US. Its role was to study the major causes of death, disability and frailty in older women. In 2006 women accounted for less than 25{06e5c851e71f046c386a74248b3a53282284dae0fc18af42c313779a50d46a39} of clinical trials published in 2004, A follow up study…