Women's Health Rehabilitation Products in High Demand with Increasing Geriatric Population and High Prevalence of Osteoarthritis

 

Women's health is a subset of public health, with its own focus, agenda, and monitoring system. The scope and quality of healthcare for women have come a long way over the past few decades. Advancements in preventive care, treatment for serious illness, women's health rehabilitation products, and access to quality health care in rural communities are all facets of the healthcare movement for women. In addition to expanding treatment options, these programs have helped to reduce health spending by encouraging better nutritional choices and creating better environments for good health. Programs also have helped to raise the profile of older women who are at the greatest risk for conditions that can affect their long-term health and that affect their family's health.

Despite these strides in overall health, women are still facing issues that can negatively impact their health and that can make it more difficult for them to be successful in achieving healthy living. These issues include preventable causes of death, such as heart disease, cancer, and other conditions. They also include, poverty and social inequities, such as higher rates of poverty among women than men and access to healthcare that is inconsistent across states. These factors make it more difficult for women to get women's health rehabilitation products.

Increasing geriatric population and high prevalence of osteoarthritis has led to high demand for women's health rehabilitation products worldwide. According to the study ‘Osteoarthritis in Europe: Impact on health status, work productivity and use of pharmacotherapies in five European countries’ that examined the impact of peripheral joint osteoarthritis across five European countries, UK (43.6%), France, (25.6%), Germany, (15.2%), Spain, (8.4%), and Italy (7.1%) recorded high prevalence of peripheral joint osteoarthritis, with majority of cases aging 55-74 years.