[EQ] Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it

Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it

 

Special Supplement of Global Public Health

An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, Volume 3 Supplement 1 2008

 

          Available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g792137052~db=all

 

Guest Editors: Gita Sen and Piroska Östlin

 

This supplement brings together the short versions of 8 reviews that were written in 2007
as part of the work of the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network (WGEKN) of the
World Health Organisation (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH).

 

Content:

 

Editorial: Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it

Gita Sen & Piroska Östlin

 

The intersections of gender and class in health status and health care

Aditi Iyer, Gita Sen & Piroska Östlin

 

Gender, health, and human rights in sites of political exclusion

Melissa Laurie & Rosalind P. Petchesky

 

Changing gendered norms about women and girls at the level of household and community:
a review of the evidence

Helen Keleher & Lucinda Franklin

 

Sex, gender, and vulnerability

Rachel C. Snow

 

Nurses, community health workers, and home carers: gendered human resources

compensating for skewed health systems

Asha George

 

Gender biases and discrimination: a review of health care interpersonal interactions

Veloshnee Govender & Loveday Penn-Kekana

 

Strengthening accountability to citizens on gender and health

Ranjani K. Murthy

 

Gender mainstreaming in health: looking back, looking forward

T.K. Sundari Ravindran & Aarti Kelkar-Khambete

 

Appendix: Policy briefing

 

 

Dr. Piroska Östlin

Karolinska Institute, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health (IHCAR)

Nobels väg 9., SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

Tel.: +46 8 524 83373 Fax.:+46 8 31 15 90

 

 

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