Gender inequalities in health, specifically as regards gender-specific conditions

Tabled by Mathilde Androuët, Gerolf Annemans, Christophe Bay, Majbritt Birkholm, Barbara Bonte, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain, Laurent Castillo, Marie Dauchy, Valérie Deloge, Mélanie Disdier, Anne-Sophie Frigout, Angéline Furet, Jean-Paul Garraud, Catherine Griset, Vilis Krištopans, Fabrice Leggeri, Thierry Mariani, Tiago Moreira de Sá, Aleksandar Nikolic, Philippe Olivier, Gilles Pennelle, Pascale Piera, Pierre Pimpie, Julie Rechagneux, André Rougé, Antonín Staněk, António Tânger Corrêa, Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Rody Tolassy, Tom Vandendriessche, Alexandre Varaut, Séverine Werbrouck, Elisabeth Dieringer, Roman Haider, Gerald Hauser, Georg Mayer, Petra Steger, Harald Vilimsky, Virginie Joron, Julien Leonardelli, Paolo Borchia, Susanna Ceccardi, Anna Maria Cisint, Aldo Patriciello, Silvia Sardone, Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Matthieu Valet, Tomasz Buczek, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Jorge Martín Frías, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Hermann Tertsch, Anna Bryłka, Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik, Jaroslav Bžoch, Klara Dostalova, Jaroslav Knot, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Jana Nagyová, Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová, Tamás Deutsch, Viktória Ferenc, Kinga Gál, Enikő Győri, György Hölvényi, András László, Annamária Vicsek, Jordan Bardella, Ernő Schaller-Baross, Pál Szekeres, András Gyürk

Added: 19b. Emphasises that safe and effective healthcare requires patients to provide complete and accurate information on all clinically relevant aspects of their health, including their biological sex and anatomy; stresses that healthcare professionals should not incur liability for consequences directly resulting from a patient’s deliberate withholding of such information, nor for declining an examination or treatment which, on objective biological or clinical grounds, falls outside their professional competence, is medically inappropriate or cannot be safely performed, including where clinically relevant information provided or recorded does not correspond to the patient’s biological or anatomical characteristics; underlines that any such decision must be duly justified and must respect the duties of non-discrimination, confidentiality and emergency care;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE788.241