@article{c8ef79dbc8264ee18c00a3bdd403373f,
title = "Women and Health: The key for sustainable development",
abstract = "Next week, the UN General Assembly will call on member states to bid farewell to the Millennium Dewvelopment Goals andadopt 17 new Sustainable Development Goals.",
author = "Ana Langer and Afaf Meleis and Knaul, {Felicia M.} and Rifat Atun and Meltem Aran and H{\'e}ctor Arreola-Ornelas and Bhutta, {Zulfiqar A.} and Agnes Binagwaho and Ruth Bonita and Caglia, {Jacquelyn M.} and Mariam Claeson and Justine Davies and Donnay, {France A.} and Gausman, {Jewel M.} and Caroline Glickman and Kearns, {Annie D.} and Tamil Kendall and Rafael Lozano and Naomi Seboni and Gita Sen and Siriorn Sindhu and Miriam Temin and Julio Frenk",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the following individuals for their contributions to this report. Panel 2 was written by Tonda L Hughes (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing) and Marilyn Sawyer Sommers (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing). Panel 4 was written by Paula Johnson, Jaclyn Chai, Therese Fitzgerald, and Carolyn Luk, all of the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. Panel 6 was written with the help of Ameporn Ratinthorn (Mahidol University). Panel 10 was written by the Agriculture and Gender Team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . Panel 11 was written by staff at PACT. Andrew Marx (Harvard Global Equity Initiative) and Jennifer Catino provided input for the initial draft of the manuscript. Katie Millar and Abigail Nasshan (both with the Maternal Health Task Force/Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health) copy-edited the report. The Global Valuing the Invaluable study led by FKM and RA was also supported by Oscar M{\'e}ndez ( Fundaci{\'o}n Mexicana para la Salud ), Maja Pleic ( Harvard Global Equity Initiative ), and Nazli Aktakke ( Development Analytics ). The Global Valuing the Invaluable study underwent technical review before being incorporated into the manuscript by two panels of economic experts, one in Boston, MA, USA and the other in Mexico City, Mexico (see appendix for list of reviewers). Mary Lou de Leon Siantz, Rebecca Salisbury, and Sally Moyce, all of the UC Davis Betty Irene School of Nursing, provided critical input regarding health workforce migration. The authors also thank the anonymous peer reviewers who provided important feedback on earlier drafts of the report. Funding Information: The work of the Commission on Women and Health was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle, WA, USA), the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Chicago, IL, USA), and the Josiah Macy Jr Foundation (New York, NY, USA). These grants covered travel, accommodation, and meal expenses for the Commission and writing team meetings as well as research team time for background papers and original research. The Commission also received in-kind support from the John D Rockefeller Bellagio Conference Center, which included meeting space, accommodation, and meals for one of the Commission meetings. AM is Advisory Board Member at Orbis Education, Educational Advisory Committee Member at Harvard School of Public Health, Advisory Committee Member at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Co-chair of the Global Health and Microbiology Interest Group at the Institute of Medicine, External Advisory Committee Member of the PhD Program in Health Sciences from University of Coimbra, Founding Board Member of the Academy of Women's Health, Board Member of the Faculty Scholars Program at the Josiah Macy Jr Foundation, and is a member of the Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health at National Institutes of Health; and declares personal fees from University of Pennsylvania and Josiah Macy Jr Foundation , outside the submitted work. TK declares grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ; and personal fees and support for travel from the non-governmental organization Balance whose mandate is promotion of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights in the 36 months preceding publication of this manuscript. JD was an editor at The Lancet when the work was started and is now Editor in Chief of The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. MC and FAD are employees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and declare no competing interests. AB is Minister of Health for Rwanda and declares no competing interests. MT was compensated as a consultant for her writing and editing contributions and declares no competing interests. AL, RA, MA, HAO, ZAB, RB, JMC, FMK, CG, RL, NS, JMG, GS, ADK, SS, and JF declare no competing interests. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 Elsevier Ltd.",
year = "2015",
month = sep,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60497-4",
language = "English",
volume = "386",
pages = "1165--1210",
journal = "The Lancet",
issn = "0140-6736",
publisher = "Elsevier Ltd.",
number = "9999",
}