E/1999/27 E/CN.6/1999/10 and discrimination, which are safe and ergonomically designed to prevent occupational hazards; (c) Take specific measures to protect the health of women workers who are pregnant or have recently given birth or are breastfeeding from harmful environmental and occupational hazards, and their children; (d) Provide full and accurate information about environmental health risks to the public, in particular to women, and take steps to ensure access to clean water, adequate sanitation and clean air. 6. Policy 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; (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; (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; (d) gender; Promote research on the interrelationship between poverty, ageing and (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; (f) Mainstream a gender perspective into the curricula as well as the training of all health-care and service providers in order to ensure high-quality health services for women that can help eliminate discriminatory attitudes and practices by certain health professionals which impede women’s access to health services; and ensure that a gender perspective is developed and applied to treatment and prevention practice in the health sector; (g) In order to ensure that women’s rights are addressed, the curricula of healthcare providers should include relevant human rights topics to strengthen medical ethics and ensure that girls and women are treated with respect and dignity; (h) Increase education and research among health service providers and users to address the unnecessary medicalization of women’s health conditions; (i) Ensure, where indicated, that clinical trials of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and other medical products include women with their full knowledge and consent and ensure that the resulting data is analysed for sex and gender differences; 16