Women Health Management: Policies, Research, and Services

Women''s health is one of the most important public health priorities and one of the Millennium Development Goals. In the life course approach، various factors can influence women''s health. This paper reviews is the historical background of women’s health managerial activities in policy making and planning، and considers some important issues such as women''s health needs and services، women''s health indicators، women''s health information and researches. It also focuses on their role in improving health system performance and responsiveness for women''s health promotion. This review study is done by literatures got from international and national databases، journals، books and reports using selected keywords. Also in some parts of the article we used the statistics and reports on international sites like WHO and UN at the international level and also some data from Department of Health and Medical Education of Iran. Women''s research could be helpful for providing community based on information and result in eradicating the women''s health obstacles. Additionally، continue the monitoring of women''s health and mutual interactions of academicals، managerial and planning organizations could be suitable in identification of needs and removing the information gap in this field. Despite of holding many conferences and also revolutions took place in this area، there are still several deficiencies. Data shows the remarkable gap between different geographical regions and social classes in various countries especially in developing countries. The aim of this paper is to discuss all aspects of women''s health، and review policies and health situation of women، in order to provide suggestion for women''s health promotion in all aspects، especially in women''s health care management، research and monitoring.