[Women's Health in Austria]

In 1995 the World Health Organisation introduced a decade dedicated to women's health issues. In promoting Gender Mainstreaming, the European Union set an important impulse too. Figures and facts show, that these initiatives lead to a better perception of the needs pertaining to women's health. First of all, it is important to see women in their different contexts of life and their social stresses in association with harmful risks. Important topics in the future will be the feminisation of age, the increasing appearance of breast cancer, over-medication, especially in relation to problems of psychological health, social and women-specific answers to the rapid research pace in reproductive medicine and genetics. The trend of standardisation of the female body, and connected to it sanitary questions, remains to be still problematic.