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Gaps in Women’s Health Care and Research Come Into Focus – Scanvio Medical
Mar 26, 2026, 17:09

Gaps in Women’s Health Care and Research Come Into Focus – Scanvio Medical

Scanvio Medical shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Some gaps in healthcare are subtle. This one is not!

A recent article in The Lancet Group puts numbers behind something that is often treated as anecdotal: women spend more years in poor health than men!
Not at the end of life. But during years that shape education, careers, and everyday functioning.
What is interesting is not just the gap. It is what sits underneath it.
A large part of this burden comes from conditions that are common, chronic and still difficult to measure, detect, or standardise.

When something is hard to measure, it becomes hard to prioritise.
When it is hard to prioritise, it remains underfunded.
And the cycle continues!

This is not just a research problem.
It is a systems problem.
Because healthcare systems respond to what they can quantify, compare and integrate into workflows.

That is where things start to shift.
Not only with new treatments, but by making existing diagnostic pathways more consistent and less dependent on variability.

The conversation around women’s health is clearly growing.
The question is how quickly the system can catch up?!

Read the full article here.”

Title: Why investing in women’s health is a societal imperative

Authors: Isa Bijloo, Noa S de Smit, Felicia Yarde, Wouter J K Hehenkamp, Carmen van Vilsteren, Derrick Z W Khor, Chiara Benedetto, Mathew Leonardi, Lesley Regan, Tina Tellum, Judith A F Huirne

Gaps in Women’s Health Care and Research Come Into Focus – Scanvio Medical

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