TY - JOUR AU - Tait, Christopher A. AU - Abdillahi, Ifrah AU - Wong, Wendy AU - Smith-Cannoy, Heather AU - Siddiqi, Arjumand PY - 2019 DA - 2019/03/08 TI - Can the health effects of widely-held societal norms be evaluated? An analysis of the United Nations convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (UN-CEDAW) JO - BMC Public Health SP - 279 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Female life expectancy and mortality rates have been improving over the course of many decades. Many global changes offer potential explanations. In this paper, we examined whether the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has, in part, been responsible for the observed improvements in these key population metrics of women’s health. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6607-6 DO - 10.1186/s12889-019-6607-6 ID - Tait2019 ER -