Taking lifelong care of women's health

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

The services devoted to women’s health leave a lot to be desired, even though women are fundamentally different from men physiologically and socially and therefore require specialized care. (Women are living longer in unhealthy conditions than men, and significantly more women have acute diseases, chronic diseases, depression, etc., than men.)– Health management for pregnant women and women of childbearing age by operating health management programs for women in each district (distributing iron pills and folic acid pills, designating seats for pregnant women on the subway), operating counseling centers for depressed women in each district, dispatching babysitters.

Country

Republic of Korea

Institution

Seoul