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Disrupting gender norms in health systems: making the case for …

(3 days ago) WEBIntroduction. Health systems are necessary for effective and efficient health-care delivery. Their strength is fundamental to achieving universal health coverage, a target of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) shared by 193 nations. 1 Gender inequalities and biases rooted in restrictive gender norms, described in other papers in …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7233290/

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The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health

(3 days ago) WEBGender inequalities drive inequities in health and wellbeing. From determining our chance of being born1 to the predominantly male-led delivery of our funerals,2,3 gender interacts with, and frequently amplifies, other inequalities such as race or poverty in shaping our entire life experience. The global goal of equality on the basis …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31547-6/fulltext

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Gender and health - World Health Organization (WHO)

(4 days ago) WEBGender norms, roles and relations, and gender inequality and inequity, affect people’s health all around the world. This Q&A examines the links between gender and health, highlighting WHO’s ongoing work to address gender-related barriers to healthcare, advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all …

https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/gender-and-health

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Gender equality in science, medicine, and global …

(3 days ago) WEBThe purpose of this Review is to provide evidence for why gender equality in science, medicine, and global health matters for health and health …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)33135-0/fulltext

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Gender equality and gender norms: framing the opportunities for …

(3 days ago) WEBThe Sustainable Development Goals offer the global health community a strategic opportunity to promote human rights, advance gender equality, and achieve health for all. The inability of the health sector to accelerate progress on a range of health outcomes brings into sharp focus the substantial impact of gender inequalities and restrictive …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)30651-8/fulltext

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The future we expect: women’s health and gender …

(6 days ago) WEBThe World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Special Programme HRP and the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in partnership with the British …

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-06-2021-the-future-we-expect-women-s-health-and-gender-equality

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Gender, health and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development

(3 days ago) WEBThe paper highlights the complex relationship between health and gender, and how these domains interact with the broad 2030 agenda. Across all three domains (social determinants, health behaviours and health system), we find evidence of the links between gender, health and other SDGs. For example, education (SDG 4) has a …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6154065/

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Gender equality: the route to a better world - Nature

(Just Now) WEBThe road to a gender-equal world is long, and women’s power and freedom to make choices is still very constrained. But the evidence from science is getting stronger: distributing power between

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02745-9

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Solving gender gaps in health, what else is missing? - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBIn this report, it was recognized that gender inequality damages the physical and mental health of girls and women across the globe, as well as that of boys and men. In addition, it was stated that acting to improve gender equity in health is one of the most direct ways to reduce health inequities, and even approaches were proposed to achieve

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8754416/

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Full article: Introduction: Gender, development, and …

(6 days ago) WEBThe last decade, since the previous issue of Gender & Development on the theme of Gender and Health was published (Volume 9, Issue 2, 2001), has seen global and national trends of great …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13552074.2021.1885221

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The role of gender power relations on women’s health outcomes: …

(7 days ago) WEBBackground Gender is a crucial consideration of human rights that impacts many priority maternal health outcomes. However, gender is often only reported in relation to sex-disaggregated data in health coverage surveys. Few coverage surveys to date have integrated a more expansive set of gender-related questions and indicators, especially …

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-10972-w

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Gender and Health Inequality Annual Reviews

(Just Now) WEBThis review synthesizes gender differences in U.S. health and systematically examines the attention that gender has received in the sociological literature on health disparities over the past three decades. Its goal is to map where we have been in order to identify new directions for sociological research. We begin by summarizing major differences in U.S. …

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102535

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Gender relations and health research: a review of current practices

(2 days ago) WEBThe importance of gender in understanding health practices and illness experiences is increasingly recognized, and key to this work is a better understanding of the application of gender relations. The influence of masculinities and femininities, and the interplay within and between them manifests within relations and interactions among …

https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-9276-10-60

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Gender and Health - Sociology - Oxford Bibliographies

(9 days ago) WEBClassic Works and Reviews. This section is a good place to start for those unfamiliar with research on gender and health. The mid-1980s marked a time of increased attention toward health status similarities and differences between men and women, as reflected in the seminal papers published in flagship outlets for medical sociology (i.e., …

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/abstract/document/obo-9780199756384/obo-9780199756384-0227.xml

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Gender bias in healthcare: Examples and consequences - Medical …

(7 days ago) WEBIn 2020, a United Nations global report found that close to 90% of all people have some form of gender bias against women. In this article, we look at gender bias in healthcare, including examples

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/gender-bias-in-healthcare

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(PDF) Gender and Health - ResearchGate

(8 days ago) WEBfor men aged 35–44, and hypertension for men aged 45 and over. Across all age groups. depression, pain, irritable bowel syndrome, and thyroid disorders were more common in. women than in men

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313263152_Gender_and_Health

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Mainstreaming Gender-Responsive One Health: Now Is the Time

(Just Now) WEBIt has been estimated that the COVID-19 pandemic has set back gender equity by 36 years and that it will now take an average of 135.6 years for women and men to reach parity on a range of factors worldwide ( 12 ). It is our opinion that we could build resilience better if a gender-responsive One Health is mainstreamed urgently.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.845866/full

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Gender inequalities in health and wellbeing across the first two

(3 days ago) WEBGender and health has become an area of major research and policy focus. 1 Elissa Kennedy and colleagues' meticulous study 2 on the health-based gender inequalities experienced by young people in the Asia-Pacific region offers timely insights. Underscoring the burden shouldered by adolescent girls and young women, their study …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30354-5/fulltext

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5 conditions that highlight the women’s health gap

(8 days ago) WEB"It is also important to continue promoting gender-sensitive research, and ultimately, implement interventions that not only reduce the burden of disease but also achieve greater health equity." Closing the women's health gap means increasing the diagnosis of women’s health conditions.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/05/womens-health-gap-healthcare/

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Court says state health-care plans can’t exclude gender-affirming

(Just Now) WEBA federal appellate court in Richmond became the first in the country to rule that state health-care plans must pay for gender-affirming surgeries, a major win for transgender rights amid a

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/29/gender-affirming-surgery-state-health-care-plans/

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Biden Administration Restores Health Protections for Gay and

(5 days ago) WEBThe Health and Human Services Department finalized a rule prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, reversing a Trump-era policy. By Noah Weiland Reporting from

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/biden-gay-transgender-health-care.html

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Transgender health care must be paid for by state insurance - NPR

(5 days ago) WEBA federal appeals court ruled on Monday that state health insurance plans must provide coverage for gender-affirming care in North Carolina and West Virginia.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/29/1247896150/transgender-health-insurance-west-virginia-north-carolina-appeals-court

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Gender roles and traits in stress and health - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBGender differences in health and stress have been described. Socialization, particularly through gender roles and gender traits, has been related to the stress process, the experience of stress, and to the health of individuals. We have shown that gender traits have implications with regards to the way stressors are dealt with, and ultimately

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4460297/

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New York judge blocks amendment barring discrimination on …

(1 days ago) WEBThe New York Constitution currently bans discrimination based on race, color, creed or religion. The proposed amendment would add ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health care and autonomy to the list.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-new-york-amendment-election-2024-4d3815708ef78c11599e1ebbb35ef896

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Health Canada eases barriers for sperm and egg donors

(5 days ago) WEBHealth Canada is replacing sperm donor screening questions about men who have sex with men in the previous three months with gender-neutral questions. (Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sperm-donation-health-canada-rules-1.7197939

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Gender equality and global health: intersecting political challenges

(3 days ago) WEBGlobal health actors will need to achieve a balance between the two agendas of global health and gender equality. Men live (on average) two to four years less than women, but women experience a higher burden of some morbidities [ 1 ]. Important differences in men’s and women’s vulnerability to health-related conditions are not …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7101083/

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Katy ISD under investigation for gender identity policy - The Texas …

(6 days ago) WEBKaty ISD’s board voted this past fall to require staff to notify parents if their child wants to use a different pronoun or identifies as a different gender. Free pronoun buttons at the AISD

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/08/katy-isd-lgbtq-policy-investigation/

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