recently given birth or are breastfeeding from harmful environmental and occupational hazards, and their children; sensitive approaches to prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, including those specifically designed for pregnant women; (d) Design, implement and strengthen prevention (d) Provide full and accurate information about envi- programmes aimed at reducing tobacco use by women and girls; investigate the exploitation and targeting of young women by the tobacco industry; support action to prohibit tobacco advertising and access by minors to tobacco products; and support smoke free spaces, gender-sensitive cessation programmes, and product labelling to warn of the dangers of tobacco use, noting the Tobacco Free Initiative proposed by the World Health Organization in July 1998; ronmental health risks to the public, in particular to women, and take steps to ensure access to clean water, adequate sanitation and clean air. 6. P  olicy development, research, training and evaluation (a) Advance a comprehensive interdisciplinary and collaborative research agenda on women’s health which encompasses the entire life span of all women, including women from special and diverse groups within populations; (e) Promote equitable sharing of household and family responsibilities between women and men, and provide social support systems, where appropriate, to help women who, as a result of their multiple roles in the family, often may suffer from fatigue and stress; (b) Establish concrete accountability mechanisms at the national level for reporting on the implementation of the health and other related critical areas of the Platform for Action; (f) Support research on the relationship between women’s and girls’ physical and mental health, self esteem and the extent to which women of all ages are valued in their societies to address issues such as substance abuse and eating disorders. (c) Improve the collection, use and dissemination of data disaggregated by sex and age, and research findings, and develop collection methodologies that capture the differences between women’s and men’s life experiences, including through the use and, where necessary, further coordinated development of gender specific qualitative and quantitative health indicators that go beyond morbidity, mortality and social indicators, capturing quality of life, social as well as mental well being of women and girls; 5. Occupational and environmental health (a) Support for gender specific research on the short- and long term effects of the occupational and environmental health risks of work, including work in the formal and informal sector, performed by both women and men, and take effective legal and other measures to reduce these risks, including risks in the workplace, in the environment and from harmful chemicals, including pesticides, radiation, toxic waste and other such hazards that affect women’s health; (d) Promote research on the interrelationship between poverty, ageing and gender; (e) Ensure participation of women at all levels in the planning, implementation and evaluation of health programmes; ensure also a gender perspective in the health sector at all levels, including through the elaboration of gender and age sensitive health policies and budgets, and the creation of an enabling environment supported by a legislative framework and monitoring, follow up and evaluation mechanisms within individual countries; (b) Protect the health of women workers in all sectors, including agricultural and domestic household workers, through effective environmental and occupational health policies for gender sensitive work environments, free from sexual harassment and discrimination, which are safe and ergonomically designed to prevent occupational hazards; (c) Take specific measures to protect the health (f) Mainstream a gender perspective into the curricula of women workers who are pregnant or have as well as the training of all health-care and service 4