A good health care system is indisputable to be an important health determinant. However, more than the previous is needed in order to provide a human being and communities with what health and wellbeing should be. Social and economic factors, such poverty and inequality, can be determinant in what can be understood as good or bad health for communities and individuals. Poverty and inequality have considerable impacts on people´s quality of life and time expectancy. Those factors tend to have a worse impact on women because of their biological characteristics, malnutrition, and on how society has shaped and the role women play in it. Because of the previous an increase on bad health indexes can be observed when one analyzes women health data.Es indiscutible que la atención sanitaria es un determinante importante para la salud. Sin embargo, hace falta más que ésta para mantener la buena salud de los seres humanos. La pobreza y la desigualdad son factores que inciden de manera determinante en la buena o mala salud de las personas, condicionando su tiempo y calidad de vida. Factores que se agudizan frente a las mujeres, por la forma en que se ha organizado la sociedad, sus características biológicas, la mala alimentación, etc., lo cual hace que los indicadores de la mala salud siempre muestren un significativo aumento cuando de ellas se trata.    

Instituto de Derechos Humanos “Gregorio Peces-Barba”