The European Institute of Women's Health would like to wish all women a Happy International Women's Day, today, March 8th. International Women's Day focuses our minds on the many important roles which women play in our societies as mothers, doctors, teachers, business leaders, daughters, or politicians, for example. Another, often more silent role for women from all walks of life, however, is the one of carer. The EIWH's Women in Europe report pointed out that women are the family's health managers and still make up a large part of informal carers. Commissioner Byrne's Reflection Paper for a new EU Health Strategy states that "Good health is a shared responsibility". This underlines the need for the widest cooperation between different groups to ensure that the EU Health Strategy really works. Women, as health managers and carers, and as doctors, researchers, teachers and business people therefore have a particularly vital role to play in contributing to this process.
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