Gender equity in health: the shifting frontiers of evidence and action

Gender equity in health: the shifting frontiers of evidence and action

Description

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 actionsthat 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.

Publication Date

16-9-2010

ISBN

0415801907; 978-0415801904

Publisher

Routledge

Keywords

Gender equity, Health industry, Health services

Gender equity in health: the shifting frontiers of evidence and action

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