FemTech Untapped 👭🩺👩🏻⚕️ - Accessible and Inclusive Solutions in Healthcare: industry overview, news, updates, key startups to follow, studies, scientific articles + more
FemTech Untapped 👭🩺👩🏻⚕️ - Accessible and Inclusive Solutions in Healthcare: industry overview, news, updates, key startups to follow, studies, scientific articles + more
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Welcome to our FemTech Untapped thematic newsletter/blog post where we will deep dive into the topic we are covering this month, and that is - Accessible and Inclusive Solutions in Healthcare.
Everyone has the right to healthcare. Healthcare that meets and takes into account each individual patient’s needs. How can tech innovations help change healthcare’s “one-size-fits-all” approach to a person-centered approach? From serving the LGBTQ+ community, young people, safe abortion care, to a personalized approach to hormonal health, join us this month for our signature live webinar meet and hear from startup founders and industry leaders building the next generation of innovative products and services in the health tech space!Companies include LVNDR Health, Biote, Vitala Global and Whispa Health. Read more about them here.
Many thanks to our program partners FemTec Health and Goodwin, as well as our webinar partners Biote, for supporting this event and our femtech program! ❤️
And below, you will find a list of some other innovative companies in the space, industry articles and relevant stories, blogs, opinions, book reviews, scientific articles, white papers, studies, and more. We simply couldn’t put everything out there in this summary, as there is simply too much, but we hope that we have curated, you find useful! 💡
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FemTech Untapped 👭🩺👩🏻⚕️ - Accessible and Inclusive Solutions in Healthcare: industry overview, news, updates, key startups to follow, studies, scientific articles + more
FemTech Untapped 👭🩺👩🏻⚕️ - Accessible and Inclusive Solutions in Healthcare: industry overview, news, updates, key startups to follow, studies, scientific articles + more
FemTech Untapped 👭🩺👩🏻⚕️ - Accessible and Inclusive Solutions in Healthcare: industry overview, news, updates, key startups to follow, studies, scientific articles + more
Welcome to our FemTech Untapped thematic newsletter/blog post where we will deep dive into the topic we are covering this month, and that is - Accessible and Inclusive Solutions in Healthcare.
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Many thanks to our program partners FemTec Health and Goodwin, as well as our webinar partners Biote, for supporting this event and our femtech program! ❤️
Hormonal health and (in)balance
Women's health: The struggle to restore hormonal balance
Steroid Hormones and Their Action in Women's Brains: The Importance of Hormonal Balance
Menopausal hormone therapy and women’s health: An umbrella review
Long COVID risk - a signal to address sex hormones and women's health
How Female Hormones Impact Women's Health
The chemical question: does focusing on hormones undermine mental healthcare?
Menstrual cycle rhythmicity: metabolic patterns in healthy women
Menstrual Cycle Hormone Changes in Women Traversing Menopause: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation
The overlooked condition that can trigger extreme behaviour
Hormonal and Volume Dysregulation in Women With Premenstrual Syndrome
Hormone Imbalance: What are the Symptoms and Treatments?
Sport science body to track female athletes’ hormonal changes linked to menstruation
Migraine in women: the role of hormones and their impact on vascular diseases
Premenstrual dysphoria disorder: It’s biology, not a behavior choice
LGBTQ+ community
Health Care Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: A Literature Review
Are we asking the right questions? Working with the LGBTQ+ community to prioritise healthcare research themes
A Systematic Review of the Discrimination Against Sexual and Gender Minority in Health Care Settings
Assessing and Addressing Cardiovascular Health in LGBTQ Adults: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
LGBTQI+ Youth and Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Research
A review of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) health and healthcare inequalities
Healthcare Experiences of Transgender Adults: An Integrated Mixed Research Literature Review
“Render a service worthy of me”: A qualitative study of factors influencing access to LGBTQ-specific health services
LGBT Experiences With Health Care
LGBTQI+ Health Resources: Health Organizations
What to know about gender bias in healthcare
Largest-ever survey exposes career obstacles for LGBTQ scientists
Systemic inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM
Protecting and Advancing Health Care for Transgender Adult Communities
Why transgender people are ignored by modern medicine
Abortion
Abortion and public health: Time for another look
Yes, science can weigh in on abortion law
A scientist weighs up the five main anti-abortion arguments
Science Is Giving the Pro-life Movement a Boost
The abortion and mental health controversy: A comprehensive literature review of common ground agreements, disagreements, actionable recommendations, and research opportunities
History and scientific background on the economics of abortion
Pregnancy, Abortion, and a Crisis of Misinformation
When human life begins is a question of politics – not biology
Scientific journals and publications on abortion by WHO
Abortion and Mental Health: Evaluating the Evidence
Reproductive autonomy and the ethics of abortion
Science vs. myths about later abortion
Pandemic has widened existing gaps in access to abortion services across Europe
Pills in the post: how Covid reopened the abortion wars
Illegal abortion industry thriving in Zimbabwe
Miscarriage and pregnancy loss
Miscarriage matters: the epidemiological, physical, psychological, and economic costs of early pregnancy loss
The association between psychological stress and miscarriage: A systematic review and meta-analysis
“It’s just one of those things people don’t seem to talk about...” women’s experiences of social support following miscarriage: a qualitative study
The miscarriage circle of care: towards leveraging online spaces for social support
Experience of miscarriage: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Early risk factors for miscarriage: a prospective cohort study in pregnant women
Miscarriage and loss
Pregnancy apps and online spaces fail to support individuals grieving a pregnancy loss – here’s what to do about it
In Latin America, not only abortions but miscarriages can lead to jail time
COVID-19 and cause of pregnancy loss during the pandemic: A systematic review
Why we need to talk about losing a baby
Men’s grief following pregnancy loss and neonatal loss: a systematic review and emerging theoretical model
Women and people of colour; healthcare in third world countries
When & Why Women & People Of Color Face Lower Quality Healthcare & Worse Health Outcomes
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Women’s Health Coverage and Access To Care
The Disparities in Healthcare for Black Women
Women of Color Continue to Be Shut Out of Leadership Positions in Health Care
Celebrating Women Of Color In The Healthcare Industry
‘We all bleed the same color’: Why do Black women in the UK experience disparities in gynecological care?
What Factors Hinder Women of Color From Obtaining Preventive Health Care?
Black women account for less than 3% of U.S. doctors. Is health care finally ready to face racism and sexism?
Women of color struggle to get the mental health care they need
The Health Care System and Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality
Pregnant women of color experience disempowerment by health care providers
Structural Racism and Maternal Health Among Black Women
Information and power: Women of color's experiences interacting with health care providers in pregnancy and birth
Giving voice to Black women in science and medicine
Women's Health in the Developing World
Women's access to health care in developing countries
Gender inequalities of health in the third world
Improving women’s health in low-income and middle-income countries
Nearly half of women, girls ‘do not own their bodies’, UN says
How COVID-19 Is Making Gender Inequality Worse in Low-Income Countries—and What to Do About It
Response, recovery and prevention in the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in developing countries: Women and girls on the frontlines