Milestones and Influential Works in International Women's Health (1980-2003)| Year | Milestones and Influential work |
| 1980 | | |
| 1984 | | |
| 1985 | 1985: UN Women's Conference in Nairobi | |
| 1987 | 1987: Safe Motherhood Initiative (World Bank) | |
| 1987: Reproductive Health and Dignity: Choices by Third World Women (International Women's Health Coalition) | |
| 1988 | 1988: Women's Work and Nutrition (Leslie 1988) | |
| 1989 | 1989: Quality of Care for Women in Family Planning(Population Council) | |
| 1990 | 1990-1994: 10 Working Papers (World Bank) | -
Life-stage focus: adolescents, postreproductive age, and so on -
Burden focus: cervical cancer, abortion, HIV/AIDS, reproductive tract infections, violence, and so on -
Socioeconomic, cultural, and legal factors affecting women's health -
Policy directions for women's nutrition -
Access and empowerment -
Cost-effectiveness issues in women's health -
Sector study of women's health in India (1992) -
Missing women in India (A. K. Sen 1990)
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| 1992 | 1992: Women's Health: Across Age and Frontier (WHO) | |
| 1993 | 1993: Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (World Bank) | |
| 1994 | 1994: New Agenda for Women's Health and Nutrition (World Bank) | -
Lifecycle approach to account for specific and cumulative effects of nutrition -
Cost-effective intervention packages advocated -
Women and AIDS (Mann 1993) -
Stigma and lack of empowerment as risk factors
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| 1994: International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo | | |
| 1995 | 1995: UN Beijing Women's Conference | |
| 1996 | 1996: In Her Lifetime: Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa (Institute of Medicine) | -
Burdens exclusive to, greater for, and of particular significance to women reviewed -
Burdens tracked across life span
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| 1998 | 1998: Women, Aging and Health (WHO) | -
Social, cultural, political, economic determinants of major health issues facing aging and postmenopausal women -
Life-cycle approach
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| 1998: Gender and Health: A Technical Paper (WHO) | | |
| 1999 | 1999: Safe Motherhood and the World Bank | Effect of safe motherhood on labor supply, productive capacity, community economic well-being |
| 1999: Gender and HIV/AIDS (Joint United Nations Program on HIV, International Center for Research on Women) | | |
| 2000 | 2000: Women of South East Asia: Health Profile (WHO) | |
| 2000: Improving Women's Health: Issues and Interventions (World Bank) | | |
| 2000 | 2000: Investing in the Best Buys (World Bank) | |
| 2002 | 2002: Reproductive Health Outlook: Older Women | |
| 2002: International Position Paper on Women's Health and Menopause (National Institutes of Health) | | |
