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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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