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Gender, Development, and Health

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Editor(s)
Sweetman, Caroline
Publication date
2001-01-01
Subject
Gender
Health
Keywords
Health promotion
Health systems
SRHR
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
HIV and AIDS
Country
Mexico

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Series
Oxfam Focus on Gender
Document type
Book
Description
This book argues that two fundamental changes are needed if both women and men are to achieve better health. The first of these is to ensure equal access to all the resources that women and men need for healthy minds and bodies: not only to medical care, but to food, water, shelter, a source of income and a sense of control over one's life. The second is to ensure that health services and resources enable women and men to meet all their physical and mental health needs. Articles included here focus on understandings of reproductive health; integrating gender issues into infectious disease prevention; the impact of HIV/AIDS on women; working with communities to promote health; and on the monitoring and evaluation of health projects from a gender perspective.
Table of contents
Editorial; The reproductive health of refugees: lessons beyond ICPD; The meaning of reproductive health for developing countries: the case of the Middle East; Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali; Safe motherhood in the time of AIDS: the illusion of reproductive 'choice'; Danger and opportunity: responding to HIV with vision; Strengthening grandmother networks to improve community nutrition: experience from Senegal; Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges; Attitudes towards abortion among medical trainees in Mexico City public hospitals; Enhancing gender equity in health programmes: monitoring and evaluation; Resources
Pages
119
ISBN
978-0-85598-456-4
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121135
Additional Links
https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/gender-development-and-health-121135
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