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WHO European Healthy Cities Network
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INTRODUCTION
The 66th session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for Europe, held in Copenhagen in September 2016 endorsed the WHO Europe Strategy on women’s health and well-being. The Strategy aims to enable progress towards reducing gender and socioeconomic inequities for women in the WHO European Region. It is designed to help health planners work towards improving the health and well-being of women and girls, with a view beyond maternal and child health, ensuring that policies and health systems are gender-responsive and based on a life-course approach.
The Working group on Gender and Health of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network was set up in February 2017 to guide and pilot the development of a tool to assess and monitor the implementation and monitoring of the WHO Strategy at city/municipal level. To facilitate development of the tool a session on ‘Gender and Health’ was held during the Healthy Cities Conference, Pécs, Hungary, 1-3 March 2017. A draft outline of the tool was discussed with participants during this session.
There was support for development of a tool looking at gender and health at city/municipal level however participants recommended that a first step is to undertake a mapping of: (a) available sex- and age-disaggregated data on measures of health that can be cross-linked to other social indicators (e.g. educational attainment) at city/municipal level; (b) other available information on gender and health at city level; and (c) if and how this data and information are used to generate evidence and or policy.
Therefore the purpose of the survey is to undertake a mapping of available data and information on gender and health at city/municipal level.
The survey should be completed by cities by 20th September 2017.
The analysis of the results of the survey will serve:
a. To support the development of the monitoring framework on the WHO Europe women’s health strategy.
b. To lay the ground for an assessment tool on gender and health for the city level.
The Working group on Gender and Health of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network was set up in February 2017 to guide and pilot the development of a tool to assess and monitor the implementation and monitoring of the WHO Strategy at city/municipal level. To facilitate development of the tool a session on ‘Gender and Health’ was held during the Healthy Cities Conference, Pécs, Hungary, 1-3 March 2017. A draft outline of the tool was discussed with participants during this session.
There was support for development of a tool looking at gender and health at city/municipal level however participants recommended that a first step is to undertake a mapping of: (a) available sex- and age-disaggregated data on measures of health that can be cross-linked to other social indicators (e.g. educational attainment) at city/municipal level; (b) other available information on gender and health at city level; and (c) if and how this data and information are used to generate evidence and or policy.
Therefore the purpose of the survey is to undertake a mapping of available data and information on gender and health at city/municipal level.
The survey should be completed by cities by 20th September 2017.
The analysis of the results of the survey will serve:
a. To support the development of the monitoring framework on the WHO Europe women’s health strategy.
b. To lay the ground for an assessment tool on gender and health for the city level.