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"Mr President, Commissioner, it is important that we are debating in our Parliament the question of women's health for the first time within the framework of the enlarged European Union, especially in view of future enlargement to countries in which equality between the two sexes has not been established in policies and women's rights need protection. I therefore thank our rapporteur for her initiative and the useful information contained in her report.
Indeed, a prosperous society with standards and cohesion is based above all on the physical and mental health of its members. Our report raises awareness of the particular situations which women face in the health sector, such as childbirth, and of particular problems such as breast cancer, cervical cancer, osteoporosis and menopause.
It gives us information about the particular behaviour which women have as patients and users of certain drugs and therapies. The Commissioner has confirmed these peculiarities to us and assures us that he will incorporate them into his new strategy.
The rapporteur also gives us information about the lack of information and proper approach to these situations by society and by scientific and nursing staff. We therefore understand the need – and here I support the rapporteur's proposals – for special studies, detailed statistics and indicators, so that we can study these situations properly and address them effectively with all the parameters and at all levels – prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
What is important is that we understand that we need to examine the gender dimension in all our national and Community strategies and in all research programmes and all information and awareness-raising strategies, because women themselves must be informed and protected.
One negative element of the report is that it includes issues which do not come within the scope of the study, such as the call for shorter hours and pay levels and I propose that we should not vote for these paragraphs. I should also like the Commissioner, as the question of paragraph 21 was raised, to explain to us what the Commission means by its strategy on sexual and reproductive health."@en1
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