Womankind

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Womankind
The Health and Wellbeing of

• A problem which does not go away

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Marital breakdown is the most important disease
in our society
Dr. Jack Dominian
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An Epidemiological Approach

• Peter Sims
• Professor of Public Health Medicine
• The School of Medicine
• University of Papua New Guinea
• BOROKO
• Papua New Guinea

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Men versus women, sexism, feminism - a global
problem
PNG
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Helen of Troy-Delilah-Mother Teresa
The Madonna
Mary Magdalene
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Women are often Poor

• Poverty means
• Lack of Resources
• Lack of Education
• Lack of Opportunity
• Lack of Power

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Women are Persecuted

• Discrimination by
• Religion
• Race
• Culture
• Politics
• Occupation

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Men versus Women
I AM OK,YOU ARE NOT OK
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MEN.WOMEN
BIRTH
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Some facts about Boys in PNG

• More boy babies die in the first year of life
• Boys are more likely to be immunized
• Boys are less likely to be malnourished
• Boys are more likely to be taken for health care
  when they are ill

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MEN.WOMEN
CHILDHOOD
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Problems for Women in PNG

• Rape
• Sexual slavery
• Polygamy
• Unwanted fertility
• Multiple childbirth

• Illegal Abortion
• Venereal disease
• Maternal mortality
• Maternal morbidity
• Cervical cancer

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The burden of fertility

• The woman devotes her life to child bearing and
  child rearing often in very difficult conditions.
• She will experience 6 or more pregnancies, two
  of her children will die before they are five
  years old

• Contraceptive Use by 26 of the population
• Average fertility 1960 - 6.3, 1990 - 5.1,
  1999 - 4.4
• Under five mortality 122/1,000

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Women without Power

• A slave
• A chattel
• A Possession or
• An equal
• A Partner
• A sharer

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MEN.WOMEN
ADULTHOOD
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Some well known facts

• More boy babies than girl babies are born -boys
  die at a faster rate
• Women have a greater life expectancy than men
• Men and women are equally able and intelligent

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The Differences

• Men are physically stronger than women
• Women use more Right brain skills,
  aesthetic, emotional
• Men use more
• Left brain skills, logical, deductive

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Some vital Statistics in PNG
Parameter
Men
Women
Life expectancy
57yrs
59yrs
Literacy Rate
40.3
49.5
Enrolment in secondary
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11
school
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Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour and keep
her in sickness and in health and forsaking all
other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye
both shall live
Solemnization of Matrimony 1662