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Entitled "Looking to Health from a Gender Perspective" and framed in commemoration of the March 8, International Women's Day, the City of Torre Pacheco is developing a "Week for Women's Health" that has aim to incorporate a gender perspective on health that would enable women visible in their life cycles and their differences and encourage them to make their health a top priority.

This week for the Women's Health, has been programmed taking into account the biological, age, disease, pregnancy, childbirth, menstruation and menopause, hormones, genetic aspects, such as life expectancy, the sociocultural : social class, educational level, employment status, responsibility and reconciliation of work and family life, social support and informal care in health and behavioral issues, eating habits, consumption of snuff and drugs etc.

The activities of this week, began on March 6 with the performance of screening at the headquarters of the local board of the Association Against Cancer.

Yesterday, March 8, kicked off the Conference on Women and Health with the intervention of Dr. Juan Jose Lopez Garcia addressed the issue of brain differences between men and women, to continue the approach paper on anxiety and depression in women was conducted by the psychiatrist Bahillo Angel Sanchez.

The week will end Friday, with the intervention of Dr. Cristina Ramirez and Dr. Juan Luis Delgado, a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics.

Also, during the holding of the Conference, has provided a facility in an adjacent room of the Municipal Library, where women may be bone densitometry to measure the quality of your bones.

And for anyone who wants it, be unable to attend this conference, there is provided a bus to tour the different districts of Torre Pacheco and will be available for people who want it.

For the implementation of activities has benefited from the selfless Medical Center Torre-Pacheco, pharmaceutical Maria Luisa Meroño, the Partnership Against Cancer, the Health Service of Murcia, Murcia University and Women's Associations of the municipality.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco