The law includes a prohibition against charging women more for healthcare than men.
Women need quality healthcare from competent physicians who involve them fully in the reliable and accurate medical information, choices and decisions that concern them.
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Binkley, 51, director of Turning Point Women's Healthcare in Alpharetta, Georgia, said the strenuous paddling motion needed to move the 40-foot boat through the water helps breast cancer patients heal.
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Through interviews with women working in professions like healthcare, fashion and PR over two decades, Alkhaled found that, while Saudi women were increasingly encouraged to enter the world of commerce, entrepreneurial activity was largely confined to women who were already independently wealthy.
Developing countries lack basic healthcare for women and their babies before, during, and after delivery, accounting for the majority of newborn and maternal deaths.
And women will be the ones to bear the brunt of this qualifications-earning gap, as 90% of healthcare support workers are women.
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Universal healthcare for pregnant women in Indonesia is being rolled out this year under a scheme called Jampersal.
Hafsat runs a conditional cash transfer project for the state, where poor pregnant women are encouraged to use available healthcare facilities for safer pregnancies in a bid to reduce maternal mortality rates.
Supporters of the regulations say it would give women the freedom to make their own healthcare choices.
"Pregnant women are recommended to get a haemoglobin test at least once in every trimester of their pregnancy but it is inconvenient for a women to walk to the nearest primary healthcare centre that could more than 5km away, " he said.
As in many developing countries, women in Yemen suffer from limited access to healthcare, economic opportunities and education.
Women spend more of their money on food, healthcare, home improvement, and schooling for their children and families than men do.
The idea is to send teams of two trained non-physician healthcare workers in remote Tanzania to examine women living several hours away from health centers.
In Brazil, where family healthcare issues are dealt with almost exclusively by women, psychologist and Ashoka Fellow Jorge Lyra is working to expand the role of fathers in family planning.
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has estimated that more than 100m women are "missing" worldwide - women who would have been around had they received similar healthcare, medicine and nutrition as men.
The test was designed to prevent women dying from anaemia and was designed to be easy for healthcare workers - often untrained - to use in the field.
Mothers2Mothers an organization that works to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV by promoting access to healthcare, and providing education and support for pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV.
Clearly, many Indian women face threats to life at every stage - violence, inadequate healthcare, inequality, neglect, bad diet, lack of attention to personal health and well-being.
Charity spokeswoman Clare McCarthy said "healthcare professionals are not properly diagnosing postnatal depression" and many women were going untreated.
Women are far more supportive of increased spending on welfare, education, and healthcare and overall support a bigger safety net in bad times.
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Wyss, a committed conservationist, is Chairman of The Wyss Foundation and The HJW Foundation, charitable organizations that work on environmental issues, as well as social issues in immigration reform, healthcare for all Americans, fairness in the loan industry and in women's health and reproductive rights, among many other projects.
The government wanted the working poor, most of them women, to have enough money to save for retirement and, of course, healthcare.
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This includes people aged 65 and older, pregnant women, people with certain medical conditions such as asthma, heart disease and diabetes, healthcare workers, carers and people living in residential care homes.
When the women are coaxed into the discussions, they talk about problems related to their childrens' development and healthcare.
The researchers said the women had done night shifts for an average of two to three years and in industries such as healthcare, food preparation and service, and office and admin support.
Spire Healthcare and Nuffield Health have both said they will offer free replacement implants if that's what women want.
Women control the purchase decisions not just for obvious products and services such as food, home, family, and healthcare, but even banking, automotive, and travel.
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