Gender Equity in Health (eBook, ePUB)

The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action
Redaktion: Sen, Gita; Östlin, Piroska

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines to examine three areas: health disparities and inequity due to gender, the specific problems women face in meeting the highest attainable standards of health, and the policies and actions that can address them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135238155
• Artikelnr.: 38262612

Autorenporträt

Gita Sen is Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India, and Adjunct Professor of Population and International Health at the Faculty of Public Health, Harvard University. Piroska Östlin is a public health scientist with a Ph.D. in Medical Science from the University of Uppsala in Sweden. She is Associate Professor of public health at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Gender as a Social Determinant of Health: Evidence, Policies and
Innovations Gita Sen and Piroska Östlin 2. The Social Body: Gender and the
Burden of Disease Rachel Snow 3. Inequalities and Intersections in Health:
A Review of the Evidence Aditi Iyer, Gita Sen and Piroska Östlin 4.
Gendered Health Outcomes of an "Endless" War on Terror Rosalind Petchesky
and Melissa Laurie 5. Gender, Health and Poverty in Latin America Karina
Batthyany and Sonia Corrêa 6. Gender Norms and Empowerment: 'What Works' to
Increase Equity for Women and Girls Helen Keleher 7. Challenging Gender in
Patient-Provider Interactions Veloshnee Govender and Loveday Penn-Kekana
8. Exploring the Gendered Dimensions of Human Resources for Health Asha
George 9. Accountability to Citizens on Gender and Health Ranjani K. Murthy
10. Gender Mainstreaming in Health: The Emperor's New Clothes? T.K.S.
Ravindran and A. Kelkar-Khambete