Handbook on gender and health / edited by Jasmine Gideon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gideon, Jasmine, editor.

Series:

International Handbooks on Gender

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health--Sex differences.

Health.

Public health--Social aspects.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (625 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

This Handbook brings together a groundbreaking collection of chapters that uses a gender lens to explore health, healthcare and health policy in both the Global South and North. Empirical evidence is drawn from a variety of different settings and points to the many ways in which the gendered dimensions of health have become reworked across the globe.

Contents:

Part 1 Introduction

1. Gender and health: an introduction / Jasmine Gideon

Part II Gender, health and public policy

2. Agenda-setting in women's health: critical analysis of a quarter century of paradigm shifts in international and global health / Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Peggy Mcdonough

3. Gender, health and climate change / Sarah Payne

4. Towards a new political agenda for indigenous women's health in Latin America in the post 2015 era / Anna Coates and Sandra Del Pino

5. Dangerous discourses? silencing women within 'global mental health' practice / Rochelle Ann Burgess

6. Cost-cutting, coproduction and cash transfers: neoliberal policy, health and gender / Deborah Johnston

7. Applying a genders lens to public health discourses on men's health / James A. Smith, Noel Richardson and Steve Robertson

8. Men, 'masculinity' and mental health: critical reflections / Brendan Gough, Steve Robertson and Mark Robinson

9. Stigmatised, marginalised and overlooked: health, later life and gender in India and the United Kingdom / Penny Vera-Sanso

Part III Gender, work and health

10. Gender, work and health: a step forward in women's occupational health / Lucía Artazcoz, Imma Cortès-Franch and Vicenta Escribà-Agüir

11. Intersectionality: the value for occupational health research / Rima R. Habib, Kareem Elzein and Nadia Younes

12. Gendered work violence issues and mental health among Chilean women workers / Elisa Ansoleaga Moreno, Ximena Díaz Berr and Amalia Mauro Cardarelli

Part IV Gender, migration and health

13. Migration, gender and health / Lorena Núñez Carrasco

14. Migration and health in a Chinese context: examining the linkages through a gender lens / Jasmine Gideon

15. Engendered movements: migration, gender, and health in a globalised world / Denise L. Spitzer

16. Migration and sex work in South Africa: key concerns for gender and health / Marlise Richter and Jo Vearey

Part V Gender and health systems

17. Gender equity and the politics of health sector reform: overcoming policy legacies, forming epistemic communities / Christina Ewig

18. Gender and commercialization of health care / Meri Koivusalo and Sarah Sexton

19. Commercialization in maternity care: uncovering trends in the contemporary healthcare economy / Susan F. Murray

20. Building post conflict health systems: a gender analysis from northern Uganda / Sarah N. Ssali, Sally Theobald, Justine Namakula and Sophie Witter

21. Reproductive health care and indigenous peoples in Venezuela / Johanna Gonçalves Martín

Part VI Households, health and health care

22. Cycles of violence in gendered social contexts: why does child maltreatment lead to increased risk of intimate partner violence in adulthood? / Karen Devries, Heidi Grundlingh and Louise Knight

23. Capacities to exercise strategic decision-making agency: exploring the gendered production of health within intimate partnerships and households / Rachel Tolhurst, Esther Richards, Eleanor Macpherson, Dorcas M. Kamuya, Flavia Zalwango and Sally Theobald

Part VII Gender, social activism and health

24. Citizen monitoring: promoting health rights among socially excluded women in Andean Peru / Jeannie Samuel

25. Emergent masculinities, men's health, and the Movember movement / Sara Smith and Marcia C. Inhorn

Part VIII Gender, health, sexuality and rights

26. Men's sexual health and destiny / Matthew Gutmann

27. Claiming Rosa Parks: conservative catholic bids for "rights" in contemporary Latin America / Lynn M. Morgan

28. Conservative backlashes to women's bodily integrity in Latin America: the case of Chile / Gabriela Alvarez Minte

29. Deconstructing human rights-based discourses: the case of women's right to health and health sector reforms in Brazil / Marianna Leite

30. Men, masculinities and health in brazil: a feminist critique / Jorge Lyra and Benedito Medrado

31. Sexual health or rights? USAID-funded HIV/AIDS interventions for key populations in Ghana / Benjamin Eveslage

32. Positive women managing reproduction in the HIV pandemic / Lesley Doyal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78471-086-5