Thursday, October 15, 2009

[EQ] Gender Equity in Health -The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action

Gender Equity in Health
The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action

Editor : Gita Sen, Piroska Östlin
ISBN: 978-0-415-80190-4 - Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 29th September 2009

Website: http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/html/moreinfo.asp?bookid=536972444

And http://www.routledgesociology.com/books/Gender-Equity-in-Health-isbn9780415801904

‘….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.

This volume brings together experts from a variety of disciplines, such as medicine, biology, sociology, epidemiology, anthropology, economics and political science, who focus on 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.

 

Highlighting the importance of intersecting social hierarchies (e.g. gender, class and ethnicity) for understanding health inequities and their implications for health policy, contributors detail and recommend policy approaches and agendas that incorporate, but go beyond commonly acknowledged issues relating to women’s health and gender equity in health….”

 

Contents:

 

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

 

Go to:

Website:  www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk
Select “Title” in the drop-down menu under “eBooks Search”
Type in: Gender Equity in Health
If the book appears in the results, click “More” following the brief description.
You should be taken to a page where you can click on an image of the book and view the first 30 pages.

Piroska Östlin, Ph.D, Associate Professor
Karolinska Institutet
Department of Public Health Sciences - Division of Global Health (IHCAR)
Stockholm, Sweden


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