[afro-nets] Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it

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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

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Mrs. Ana Lucia Ruggiero (WDC)
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