Life Course Approach
The forum discusses topics related to the "life course approach," a public health approach supported by the World Health Organization. A life course approach to health aims to ensure people’s well-being at all ages by addressing people’s needs, ensuring access to health services, and safeguarding the human right to health throughout their lifetime.
By addressing women’s needs, ensuring their access to health services, and preserving the human right to health throughout their lives, the forum seeks to ensure women with drug use disorders’ well-being. In order to protect the health of potential mothers-to-be, women planning pregnancies, or those at risk of unplanned pregnancies, as well as the children they may bear, it is crucial to address issues like fetal alcohol spectrum disorders brought on by alcohol use during pregnancy.
