Gender, Development, and Health

What are the differences between women's and men's experiences of health, sickness and health care? How does our gender identity affect our physical and mental wellbeing? Despite improvements in health indicators in many countries, developing countries are currently facing a health crisis. New diseases like HIV and drug-resistant strains of diseases including malaria, pneumonia and tuberculosis, are spreading. Many people in developing countries have never had access to formal medical services. Others have lost their access due to reductions in public spending as a result of structural adjustment policies, international debt repayments and the de-prioritisation of health against other sectors. 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 men and women 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 ones 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.

ISBN 0855984562   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780855984564 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 295 Publisher Oxfam Publishing   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxfam Professional   Series editor Sweetman, Caroline, Masika, Rachel Format Paperback   Series ISSN 0968-286 Publication date 18 Oct 2001   Series title Oxfam Focus on Gender Library of Congress 2002318067   Height (mm) 246 DEWEY 362.1   Width (mm) 188 DEWEY edition DC21   Spine width (mm) 13 Pages 80   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Undergraduate

		Editorial by Caroline Sweetman		2
		The reproductive health of refugees: lessons beyond ICPD by Colette Harris and Ines Smyth		10
		The meaning of reproductive health for developing countries: the case of the Middle East by Huda Zurayk		22
		Environment, living spaces, and health: compound-organisation practices in a Bamako squatter settlement, Mali by Paule Simard and Maria De Koninck		28
		Safe motherhood in the time of AIDS: the illusion of reproductive 'choice' by Carolyn Baylies		40
		Danger and opportunity: responding to HIV with vision by Kate Butcher and Alice Welbourn		51
		Strengthening grandmother networks to improve community nutrition: experience from Senegal by Judi Aubel and Ibrahima Toure and Mamadou Diagne		62
		Teaching about gender, health, and communicable disease: experiences and challenges by Rachel Tolhurst and Sally Theobald		74
		Attitudes towards abortion among medical trainees in Mexico City public hospitals by Deyanira Gonzalez de Leon Aguirre and Deborah L. Billings		87
		Enhancing gender equity in health programmes: monitoring and evaluation by Mohga Kamal Smith		95
		Resources by Erin Murphy Graham		106
		Publications		106
		Organisations		112
		Electronic Resources		113
		Videos		114
		Courses		115

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