Lack of health care worsens women's life quality: WHO

Despite living six to eight years longer than men, women lack essential health care throughout their lives, particularly as teenagers and elderly people, the World Health Organization said on Monday. In a report, the WHO said that women around the world are "denied a chance to develop their full human potential" because many critical medical needs are ignored. "Women generally live longer than men, but their lives are not necessarily healthy or happy," Margaret Chan, the head of the United Nations health agency, said at the WHO on Monday.