Women's health: issues and prospects

An overview is presented of the research and theorizing on women's health a ccomplished over the past 25 years. This research is represented by two par allel strands regarding women's health: the first strand concerns the femin ist and sociological research tradition, and the other focuses on the publi c health and epidemiological tradition. The conclusion is that Nordic resea rch can offer new knowledge on women's health in both the quantitative and the qualitative research traditions when researchers adopt a gender-sensiti ve perspective.