Health Populi January 22, 2025
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

Even though women comprise one-half of the world’s population, their health outcomes and inputs do not match up to men’s: there’s a women’s health gap on Planet Earth.

Meeting in Davos this week for #WEF2025, the World Economic Forum published a report on that gender-health chasm titled, Blueprint to Close the Women’s Health Gap: How to Improve Lives and Economies for All.

In collaboration with the McKinsey Health Institute, the report focuses on nine key conditions that, if addressed, could reduce the global disease burden by 27 million disability adjusted life years and add 2.5 healthy days per woman per year. This would add $400 billion of “economic uplift,” improving the lives of women worldwide.

And that economic uplift is...

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