Public health literacy campaigns

Sustained public-facing education on women’s health conditions, life-stage transitions, and access pathways, delivered through coordinated Nordic campaign moments, would translate national clinical guideline publication into public understanding and shorten diagnostic delay. The 2026 ComPaRe-Endometriosis cohort confirmed a ten-year average diagnostic delay for endometriosis and eleven years for adenomyosis. Nordic women currently navigate national health systems on the basis of public information that arrives later than the clinical evidence, and patient organisations carry sustained awareness work through their own channels without a coordinated campaign frame.

Annual Nordic campaign moments aligned with the International Day of Action for Women’s Health on 28 May, World Menopause Day on 18 October, and the NCM policy cycle would translate national guideline publication into shared public understanding without overriding national authorities. The templates are already visible internationally, in the UK Renewed Women’s Health Strategy of April 2026 with its GBP 1 million (EUR 1.2 million) menstrual health education programme, and Scotland’s Phase Two public-facing materials of January 2026. The value is a shorter diagnostic delay across the region. The NCM Committee for Gender Equality and LGBTI, the five national health authorities, and Nordic patient organisations are positioned to coordinate it.