E/1999/27 E/CN.6/1999/10 (j) Collect data concerning scientific and legal developments on human genome and related genetic research and their implications for women’s health and women’s rights in general and disseminate such information and results of studies conducted in accordance with accepted ethical standards. 7. Health sector reform and development (a) Take action, in the context of health sector reform and development and growing diversification of the provision of care, to secure equal and equitable access to care for women and to ensure that health sector reform and development efforts promote women’s health; and address under-provision of health care; (b) Take the opportunity provided by health sector reform and development to systematically integrate the process of gender analysis in the health sector and undertake gender impact assessments and monitoring of all health sector reforms and development to ensure that women benefit equally from them; (c) Develop strategies designed to seek to reduce occupational concentration by gender to eliminate gender-based pay inequality, to ensure high-quality working conditions in the health work force, and to provide appropriate skills training and development. 8. International cooperation (a) Assure a strong political commitment by the international community to implement strengthened international cooperation for development and to mobilize domestic and international finance resources from all sources for development and the provision of health services for women; (b) Promote progress in regard to external debt relief which, with improvement in the terms of trade, could help generate resources, both public and private, to expand and upgrade health services, with special attention to the physical and mental health of women; (c) Encourage the international community, including bilateral donors and multilateral development organizations, to assist developing countries in ensuring the provision of basic social services, including health-care services for women, in particular during periods of economic difficulty; socially and gender-sensitive approaches to structural adjustment policies are further encouraged; (d) Encourage concerted efforts, through enhanced cooperation and coordination to minimize the negative impacts and maximize the benefits of globalization and interdependence, to, inter alia, enhance the provision of health-care services in developing countries, especially for women; (e) In the framework of international cooperation encourage sound macroeconomic policies and institutions to, inter alia, support the provision of healthcare services for women. II. Institutional mechanisms The Commission on the Status of Women 17