Gender Equity in Health: The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action (Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare)

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. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 10 Tables......Page 12 Figures......Page 14 Boxes......Page 16 Preface......Page 18 Acknowledgments......Page 22 1 Gender as a Social Determinant of Health: Evidence, Policies, and Innovations......Page 24 2 The Social Body: Gender and the Burden of Disease......Page 70 3 Inequalities and Intersections in Health: A Review of the Evidence......Page 93 4 Gendered Health Outcomes of an ‘Endless’ War on Terror......Page 119 5 Gender, Health, and Poverty in Latin America......Page 149 6 Gender Norms and Empowerment: ‘What Works’ to Increase Equity for Women and Girls......Page 184 7 Challenging Gender in Patient–Provider Interactions......Page 207 8 Exploring the Gendered Dimensions of Human Resources for Health......Page 233 9 Accountability to Citizens on Gender and Health......Page 265 10 Gender Mainstreaming in Health: The Emperor’s New Clothes?......Page 298 Contributors......Page 328 Index......Page 334 Gender as a social determinant of health : evidence, policies, and innovations / Gita Sen and Piroska Östlin The social body : gender and the burden of disease / Rachel Snow Inequalities and intersections in health : a review of the evidence / Aditi Iyer, Gita Sen, and Piroska Östlin Gendered health outcomes of an 'endless' war on terror / Rosalind Petchesky and Melissa Laurie Gender, health, and poverty in Latin America / Karina Batthyany and Sonia Corrêa Gender norms and empowerment : 'what works' to increase equity for women and girls / Helen Keleher Challenging gender in patient-provider interactions / Veloshnee Govender and Loveday Penn-Kekana Exploring the gendered dimensions of human resources for health / Asha George Accountability to citizens on gender and health / Ranjani K. Murthy Gender mainstreaming in health : the emperor's new clothes? / T.K.S. Ravindran and A. Kelkar-Khambete. Brings together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines to examine three areas, including 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