Human Rights And Gender Equality In Health Sector Strategies

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241564083

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Human Rights and Gender Equality in Health Sector Strategies by World Health Organization Pdf

The tool described in this document is designed to support countries as they design and implement national health sector strategies in compliance with obligations and commitments. The tool focuses on practical options and poses critical questions for policy-makers to identify gaps and opportunities in the review or reform of health sector strategies as well as other sectoral initiatives. It is expected that using this tool will generate a national multi-stakeholder process and a cross-disciplinary dialogue to address human rights and gender equality in health sector activities.

Author : Gita Sen,Piroska Östlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135238162

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Gender Equity in Health by Gita Sen,Piroska Östlin Pdf

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.

Author : Commonwealth Secretariat
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0850927331

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Gender Mainstreaming in the Health Sector by Commonwealth Secretariat Pdf

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.

Author : Ellen Annandale,Kate Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Health
ISBN : UOM:39015050192981

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Gender Inequalities in Health by Ellen Annandale,Kate Hunt Pdf

'... 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.

Author : United Nations Population Fund,World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015042999584

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Women and Health by United Nations Population Fund,World Health Organization Pdf

The report looks particularly at the impact of gender on occupational and environmental health; sexual and reproductive health; tuberculosis, malaria and other disease control programmes, including HIV and AIDS; and mental health. Special attention is also paid to gender and health reform and financing; quality of care; partnerships for health and capacity building and the importance of education for girls, adolescent girls and women. This forms the background for the outline of a framework for designing national health policies with an integrated gender perspective, which the report details.

Author : Elsa Gómez Gómez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9275115419

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Gender, Women, and Health in the Americas by Elsa Gómez Gómez Pdf

Author : Vera Lasch,Ute Sonntag,Ulrike Maschewsky-Schneider
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9783899587418

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Equity in Access to Health Promotion, Treatment and Care for All European Women by Vera Lasch,Ute Sonntag,Ulrike Maschewsky-Schneider Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Women's Health Council
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gender and health: strategies for implementation - seminar proceedings by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosalind P. Petchesky
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1842770071

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Global Prescriptions by Rosalind P. Petchesky Pdf

Global Prescriptions is a critical yet optimistic analysis of the role of transnational women's groups in setting the agendas for women's health in international and national settings. The book reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conferences, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and weaknesses. It critiques the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen conference documents and World Bank, WHO and health sector reform policies. It also offers case studies of national-level reform and advocacy efforts and appraises the controversy concerning TRIPS, trade, and essential AIDS drugs. The author takes into account the formidable political and ideological forces confronting global justice movements and also offers a sobering reassessment of transnational women's NGOs themselves and such problems as 'NGOization', fragmentation and donor-dependency. Petchesky argues that the power of women's transnational coalitions is only as great as their organic connection with grassroots social movements.

Author : Guang-zhen Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781317065852

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Reproductive Health and Gender Equality by Guang-zhen Wang Pdf

Since the late 1990s approaches to women's reproductive health has shifted from a service-based model to a human rights approach. This approach associates reproductive health with freedom from discrimination and enjoyment of a satisfying and safe sex life, and full access to information and services related to reproduction. In spite of this shift, and the global effort to promote women's reproductive health through the enhancement of human rights and gender equality, progress has been very slow. In this book the author fills a much-needed empirical study of women's reproductive health. The author assesses data from 137 developing countries (or areas) and challenges the prevailing bioscience and public health models by linking women's reproductive health to gender equality measures and development policies. Discussion on abortion rights, regional variations and reproductive health needs among refugees and internally displaced persons are also discussed. This is a timely study which provides a theoretical and social policy basis for monitoring and improving women's reproductive health in developing countries. This is particularly important in the light of insufficient research in the field and a lack of analysis on the empirical and theoretical linkages between reproductive health and gender equality. The book will be of interest to researchers, professionals and students interested in women's health issues, gender/women's studies and human rights.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health Services Accessibility
ISBN : 9789241563741

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Human Rights, Health, and Poverty Reduction Strategies by World Health Organization Pdf

The task of addressing poverty, health and human rights cannot be handled by any single global institution and requires rigorous interdisciplinary and coordinated action. This is why the WHO and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have worked together with a range of stakeholders to develop this guide. It is intended as a tool for health policymakers to design, implement and monitor a poverty reduction strategy through a human rights-based approach. It contains practical guidance and suggestions as well as good practice examples from around the world.

Author : Léo Heller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108837248

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The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation by Léo Heller Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the human rights to water and sanitation, exploring theoretical, conceptual, and practical aspects.

Author : Shari Dworkin,Monica Gandhi,Paige Passano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520272873

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Women's Empowerment and Global Health by Shari Dworkin,Monica Gandhi,Paige Passano Pdf

"What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? Despite the rise of a human rights-based approach to women's health and increasing awareness of the synergies between women's health and empowerment, a lack of consensus remains as to how to measure empowerment and successfully intervene in ways that improve health. Women's Empowerment and Global Health provides thirteen detailed, multidisciplinary case studies from across the globe and through the course of a woman's life to show how science and advocacy can be creatively merged to enhance the agency and status of women. Accompanying short videos provide background about programs on the ground in India, the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Women's Empowerment and Global Health explores the promises and limits of programmatic, scientific, and rights-based work in real-world settings and provides the next generation of researchers and practitioners, as well as students in global and public health, sociology, anthropology, women's studies, law, business, and medicine, with cutting edge and inspirational examples of programs that point the way toward achieving women's equality and fulfilling the right to health."--Provided by publisher.

Author : E. Kuhlmann,R. Blank,I. Bourgeault,C. Wendt
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137384921

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance by E. Kuhlmann,R. Blank,I. Bourgeault,C. Wendt Pdf

Starting with more general issues of healthcare policy and governance in a global perspective and using the lens of national case studies of healthcare reform, this handbook addresses key themes in the debates over changing healthcare policy.

Author : Colleen O'Manique,Pieter Fourie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781317195573

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Global Health and Security by Colleen O'Manique,Pieter Fourie Pdf

The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations. This book provides the first critical, feminist analysis of the flesh-and-blood impacts of the securitization of health on different bodies, while broadening the scope of what we understand as global health security. It looks at how feminist perspectives on health and security can lead to different questions about health and in/security, problematizing some of the ‘common sense’ assumptions that underlie much of the discourse in this area. It considers the norms, ideologies, and vested interests that frame specific ‘threats’ to health and policy responses, while exposing how the current governance of the global economy shapes new threats to health. Some chapters focus on conflict, war and complex emergencies, while others move from a ‘high political’ focus to the domain of subtler and often insidious structural violence, illuminating the impacts of hegemonic masculinities and the neoliberal governance of the global economy on health and life chances. Highlighting the critical intersections across health, gender and security, this book is an important contribution to scholarship on health and security, global health, public health and gender studies.