According to a global tracker, women’s healthcare in the United Kingdom is worse than in China and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poor efforts at health problem prevention, diagnosis, and treatment have resulted in the UK ranking lower than several countries with a troubling record on women’s rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the study, Britain performed worse than most comparable Western countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, France, and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United Kingdom was ranked 30th out of 122 countries in the 2021 Hologic Global Women’s Health Index, which was released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The score, which is three points lower than the previous year’s, places it on par with Kazakhstan, Slovenia, Kosovo, and Poland in terms of women’s healthcare provision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, the position of 30th was significantly lower than the previous year’s position of 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After it was revealed last month that gynaecology waiting times in England had tripled in a decade, the UK government was accused of “consistently deprioritizing” women’s health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women now have to wait nearly four months on average for their first hospital appointment with a gynaecology specialist. In England, however, nearly 38,000 women have been on the waiting list for more than a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The index emphasised problems with mental health support provision in the United Kingdom, with the country’s score for women’s emotional health dropping eight points in a year to 68 out of 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, the UK received only 23 out of 100 points for preventive care, such as cancer and diabetes screening. A separate Hologic survey of 10,000 people in the UK discovered that those from ethnic minorities were especially vulnerable to missing out.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to a global tracker, women’s healthcare in the United Kingdom is worse than in China and Saudi Arabia. Poor efforts at health problem prevention, diagnosis, and treatment have resulted … <\/p>\n