Women’s Health in the United States and Beyond A New Mosaic for Women’s Health

n recent years, interest in and commitment to the improvement of women’s health have bur-geoned in the United States and around the world.1,2 Over the past twenty-five years in the United States, the women’s advocacy community has suc-cessfully argued for a better appreciation of the health of women and increased understanding of and sen-sitivity about women’s health care needs. This long-standing advocacy effort seemed to blossom more fully in the scientific and health care communities during the 1990s, with unprecedented levels of in-terest and resources dedicated to elucidating sex3 (biological characteristics of being female or male) and gender (responses to societal influences based upon sex) differences and similarities in health an