OTHER BORDERS
International Women’s Health Conference in Derry
The Everglades Hotel, Derry, Northern Ireland
May 29th to May 30th 2008
Derry Well Woman on behalf of the Cross Border Women’s Health Network is hosting an international conference on women’s health in May 2008. The conference is entitled Other Borders. The aim is to make a health impact by raising awareness and opening up the debate on the need to improve health status and reduce health inequalities through focusing on the following Themes:
- Women and exclusion
- Maintaining women’s roles in determining health and well-being when societies move from conflict to post-conflict
- Meeting health needs on a cross border basis
In securing this aim our objectives are:
- To bring together speakers from around the world to disseminate/share information and experience of working with women and exclusion, the role of women in maintaining health and well-being in post conflict societies and meeting health needs on a cross border basis
- To develop and strengthen international links between health and social care professionals, academics, researchers, development workers and politicians interested in the key role women play in determining population health status
- To lobby politicians and decision makers for action against health inequalities and social exclusion in border areas
