CEDAW/C/1996/3/Add.1 English Page 7 and research needs as related to women's concerns in the context of primary health care. The ninth general programme of work of WHO gives attention to matters affecting women's health and includes targets on several aspects. 22. A working group for Beijing was convened to coordinate the input to the Conference and to ensure a high profile for women's health on the proposed Platform for Action. This group will continue to work on the follow-up to Beijing. Discussions have been held with the various programmes in WHO and mechanisms for strengthening the commitment and action on women's health are being put in place, including the continuation of the Working Group that coordinated WHO's inputs into the Conference. Activities such as the collection of women's health profiles and the identification of women, health and development country focal points, are ongoing in the regional offices. 23. WHO has long sought to ensure sex-specific data collection on mortality and morbidity, focusing particular attention on collecting data to fill information gaps on issues that affect only women and that have been neglected in many official data collection efforts. The Division of Family Health continues to maintain several bibliographic and/or indicator databases on women's health and has close links with other programme areas with sex-disaggregated data sets. It is planned that eventually these databases will form the starting-point of a comprehensive bibliographic and indicator database on women's health across the lifespan, bringing together all available information from different programme areas. 24. There is a recognized need for mechanisms for bringing together the information in a coherent manner and, more important, for disseminating it to those interested in women's health. This would permit a move away from a purely disease orientation for classifying women's health into one that starts from the concept of good health and permit the definition of indicators to measure and assess it. It would also permit the identification of information gaps, the definition of relevant and appropriate indicators, stimulate research and foster the development of data collection instruments appropriate for analysis of women's health needs. 25. A feasibility study for the establishment of a resource centre on women's health has been undertaken with the support of the Carnegie Foundation. The study has just been completed and a report is in preparation; the recommendations include a gradual building up of databases and resources on women's health. The unit will disseminate the information thus amassed to others working in the field, particularly women's groups and NGOs around the world, policy makers and planners. The women's health resource centre would build on existing databases currently maintained by the Division of Family Health on maternal mortality, maternal morbidity, coverage of maternity care, nutritional anaemia in women, incidence of and mortality from abortion, prevalence of infertility and adolescent health. 26. Stimulated by the activities of the Steering Committee on Women, Health and Development, and by linkages with the Global Commission on Women's Health, there is a growing awareness among WHO's programmes of the invisibility of women's health problems. This has led to efforts to quantify the extent of /...