Women, Health, and Rare Diseases
Health protection awareness initiatives
Department Supervisor: Simone Baldovino.
Description
The project, promoted by the federation of associations "Uniamo - Italian Federation of Rare Diseases," aims to raise awareness of issues related to gender medicine and the role of women as caregivers in rare diseases.
It is increasingly necessary to bring attention to gender medicine, narrative medicine and the need to pay attention to women's health. Women are the backbones of our societies, not least because of their crucial importance in the health issue: it is from them that the stimulus for prevention starts; it is they who take care of checkups; and in general who, with the hidden work of caregivers, accompany family members into the world of health.
It is also crucial to identify those diseases that affect women to a greater extent in percentage terms in order to bring to light the underground of non-diagnosis, due to lack of knowledge and underestimation of symptoms, even by women themselves.
→ Read the Press release (in Italian).