Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Just 6% of private #healthcare funding goes towards women’s health, and across multiple diseases affecting both sexes, only 3% of studies look at how those diseases affect women.
As a result, women are diagnosed late for more than 700 conditions – and spend 25% more of their lives in poorer health than men, a study by the World Economic Forum and McKinsey found.
These statistics are shocking – but they’re not set in stone, says Paula Bellostas, Healthcare Global Lead at Kearney and a co-author of a new World Economic Forum paper on women’s #health innovation. She says that closing the women’s health gap means bringing gender into research right from the outset – and women advocating for themselves as patients.
The Women’s Health Innovation Radar, produced in collaboration with the Kearney Health Institute, Gates Foundation, Wellcome Leap and the World Economic Forum’s Global Alliance For Women’s Health, maps the biggest advances – and remaining gaps – across the full science-to-patient journey. Read it here: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-women-s-health-innovation-radar-revealing-gaps-and-opportunities-across-the-science-to-patient-journey/
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