2023-07-12 09:52:38
The delegation for women’s rights and equal opportunities between men and women unanimously adopted on Tuesday July 11, 2023, a report on women’s mental health which makes 24 recommendations.
Starting from the observation that mental health problems are today the main item of expenditure for health insurance, with an annual cost of 23.4 billion eurosand that women are pnearly twice as affected by disorders giving rise to the prescription of psychotropic treatments, the rapporteurs wanted, through this report, “ bring regarding a collective awareness of the specificity of women in terms of mental health and the major societal challenge that this represents ».
To this end, the rapporteurs point out that “women are more often victims of harassment at work than men, they are also more affected by burn-out, both professionally and parentally”. Besides, ” health in the broad sense is very often approached by modeling itself on the characteristics of men, which does not allow care adapted to their needs”, and this at all ages of life (adolescence, maternity, menopause, seniority). Finally ” the environment in which women evolve has a decisive impact on their mental health. The precariousness to which they may be exposed deteriorates their mental health, as does the violence they face, whether it is domestic violence or sexist or sexual harassment.. The rapporteurs also recall that over the age of 70, one woman in two lives alone ” which can increase the vulnerability of older women to physical, verbal, psychological and financial abuse, sexual abuse, abandonment, neglect, serious attacks on dignity and lack of respect”.
On the strength of these findings and following having conducted more than thirty hearings with associations of users, health professionals, and associations supporting women, the rapporteurs formulate 24 recommendations to improve the specific management of mental health of women articulated around the following three axes:
Deconstruct stereotypes, fight once morest inequalities and restore self-image : with in particular the launch of information campaigns to disinvisibilize women in mental distress, support for single-parent families, improvement of police and judicial treatment of intra-family violence;
Train professionals and raise public awareness : by emphasizing the specificity of care specific to women in the training of health professionals, by developing awareness-raising campaigns in schools, by providing better training to those involved in caring for women who are victims of violence;
Prevent, detect, manage : by improving the MonParcoursPsy system, by reimbursing a psychological consultation to assess the risk of moral suffering at key ages in life, by simplifying access to care for the most vulnerable women
The information report will be published on the Assembly’s website: delegation for women’s rights and equal opportunities between men and women
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