Integrating the gender perspective in Irish health policy: a case study
Title | Integrating the gender perspective in Irish health policy: a case study PDF eBook |
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Publisher | The Women's Health Council |
Pages | 53 |
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A guide to creating gender-sensitive health services
Title | A guide to creating gender-sensitive health services PDF eBook |
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Publisher | The Women's Health Council |
Pages | 27 |
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Gender Equity in Health
Title | Gender Equity in Health PDF eBook |
Author | Gita Sen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2009-10-16 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1135238162 |
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.
Gender, Women and Primary Health Care Renewal
Title | Gender, Women and Primary Health Care Renewal PDF eBook |
Author | World Health Organization |
Publisher | World Health Organization |
Pages | 79 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9241564032 |
This discussion paper brings together evidence and experience from around the world focusing on making health systems more gender responsive. There is a need to examine the various barriers as well as opportunities in order to make health systems work better for women, which has been a special concern for several decades now, by using a gender equality and health equity perspective. The paper uses a framework that combines WHO's six building blocks for health systems and the primary health care reforms propounded in the World Health Report 2008 on primary health care. Furthermore, the paper provides examples of what has worked and how, and ends with an agenda for action to strengthen the work of policy-makers, their advisers and development partners as well as practitioners as they seek to integrate gender equality perspectives into health systems strengthening, including primary health care (PHC) reforms.
Gender Inequalities in Health
Title | Gender Inequalities in Health PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Annandale |
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Pages | 232 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
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'... a very useful addition to teaching material in the medical sociology/health studies field that will also be of value for teachers and students in women's studies.' - Mary Ann Elston, Royal Holloway University of London, UK '... Established wisdom about gender inequalities is due for critical questioning. This authoritative and challenging collection ... from some of the most respected names in the field ... will be essential reading for students and researchers in gender studies and medical sociology.' - Professor Mildred Blaxter, University of East Anglia, UK This state-of-the-art collection reflects critically upon the current status of our knowledge about gender inequalities in health and develops an agenda for future research. Leading experts address a range of themes that are central to the development of the field. These include recent theoretical and methodological developments in sociology and social policy, and the significance of changes in gender relations following wide-scale economic and social changes with respect to the mental and physical health status of men and women. The collection focuses upon gender and health within industrialized nations including Britain, North America, Western and Eastern Europe. It will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of sociology, health policy, health studies and gender studies.
Communities in Action
Title | Communities in Action PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 583 |
Release | 2017-04-27 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309452961 |
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Gender Mainstreaming in the Health Sector
Title | Gender Mainstreaming in the Health Sector PDF eBook |
Author | Commonwealth Secretariat |
Publisher | Commonwealth Secretariat |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780850927337 |
This is the consensus built up in a series of workshops in different regions of the Commonwealth on what is the most effective way of applying Gender Management System principles and methodology to the health sector. This manual should assist other countries in adapting mainstreaming.