At Family Health International, we bring research and public health programs together to improve people’s lives. Our researchers increase understanding of the technologies and health care systems best suited to people in need. Our public health professionals combine this scientific information with best practices from the field -- and our experience of 37 years -- to deliver evidence-based health programs that have real impact.
Docjth Group is one of the Property Industry Foundation’s volunteer programs. Members are all women who have similar professional roles within your industry to include PAs, EA’s, Secretaries, Legal Assistants, Office Managers, Team & Project Assistants, HR & Payroll, Coordinators in Marketing, Project Management and the like; all who have interest in helping homeless kids – from a woman’s perspective. Their program includes industry networking, the Friendship Program to include the Annual Zoo Trip for Homeless Children and the Annual Winter Chocs for Socks Campaign. |
Women are more vulnerable to high health care costs than men.
Women’s reproductive health requires more regular contact with health care providers, including yearly pap smears, mammograms, and obstetric care.
Women are also more likely to report fair or poor health than men (9.5% versus 9.0%).1
While rates of chronic conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure are similar to men, women are twice as likely to suffer from headaches and are more likely to experience joint, back or neck pain.2 These chronic conditions often require regular and frequent treatment and follow-up care.
The current health insurance framework leaves too many women uncovered.
Twenty-one million women and girls went without health insurance in 2007, and another 14 million relied on coverage through the individual insurance market.3
Women are less likely to be employed full-time than men (52% versus 73%), making them less likely to be eligible for employer-based health benefits themselves. In fact, less than half of women have the option of obtaining employer-based coverage on their own.4
Even when they work for an employee that offers coverage, one in six is not eligible to take it, often because they are part-time workers. They end up either covered through a spouse (41%), purchasing insurance directly through the individual market (5%), on public programs (10%), or uninsured (38%).5
And even among women with the option to get health coverage through their employer, they are twice as likely as men to go on their spouse’s plan (15% versus 7%).6
This dynamic has several effects. Single women are twice as likely to be uninsured than married women (24% versus 12%).7