Handbook on Gender and Health

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This Handbook brings together a groundbreaking collection of chapters that uses a gender lens to explore health, health care 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. This collection includes insightful contributions from 56 leading authorities from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, offering a wealth of knowledge, theoretical reflection, and empirical detail on the essential elements surrounding gender and health. Topics covered include theoretical approaches to understanding gender and health, migration, sexuality, ageing, masculinities, climate change and sexual and reproductive rights. Split into four thematic sections, this book strives to develop a clear road map towards achieving gender justice in health. The Handbook on Gender and Health will be an important resource for researchers, students, and instructors of health policy and family and gender studies. Front Matter......Page 1 Copyright......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Figures......Page 8 Tables......Page 9 Boxes......Page 10 Contributors......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 21 PART I INTRODUCTION......Page 23 1. Gender and health: an introduction......Page 25 PART II GENDER, HEALTH AND PUBLIC POLICY......Page 45 2. Agenda-setting in women’s health: critical analysis of a quarter-century of paradigm shifts in international and global health......Page 47 3. Gender, health and climate change......Page 67 4. Towards a new political agenda for indigenous women’s health in Latin America in the post-2015 era......Page 82 5. Dangerous discourses? Silencing women within ‘global mental health’ practice......Page 101 6. Cost-cutting, co-production and cash transfers: neoliberal policy, health and gender......Page 120 7. Applying a genders lens to public health discourses on men’s health......Page 139 8. Men, ‘masculinity’ and mental health: critical reflections......Page 156 9. Stigmatized, marginalized and overlooked: health, later life and gender in India and the United Kingdom......Page 170 PART III GENDER, WORK AND HEALTH......Page 185 10. Gender, work and health: a step forward in women’s occupational health......Page 187 11. Intersectionality: the value for occupational health research......Page 211 12. Gendered work violence issues and mental health among Chilean women workers......Page 225 PART IV GENDER, MIGRATION AND HEALTH......Page 243 13. Migration, gender and health......Page 245 14. Migration and health in a Chinese context: examining the linkages through a gender lens......Page 257 15. Engendered movements: migration, gender and health in a globalized world......Page 273 16. Migration and sex work in South Africa: key concerns for gender and health......Page 290 PART V GENDER AND HEALTH SYSTEMS......Page 303 17. Gender equity and the politics of health sector reform: overcoming policy legacies and forming epistemic communities......Page 305 18. Gender and commercialization of health care......Page 320 19. Commercialization in maternity care: uncovering trends in the contemporary health care economy......Page 331 20. Building post-conflict health systems: a gender analysis from Northern Uganda......Page 349 21. Reproductive health care and indigenous peoples in Venezuela......Page 373 PART VI HOUSEHOLDS, HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE......Page 395 22. Cycles of violence in gendered social contexts: why does child maltreatment lead to increased risk of intimate partner violence in adulthood?......Page 397 23. Capacities to exercise strategic decision-making agency: exploring the gendered production of health within intimate partnerships and households......Page 416 PART VII GENDER, SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND HEALTH......Page 439 24. Citizen monitoring: promoting health rights among socially excluded women in Andean Peru......Page 441 25. Emergent masculinities, men’s health and the Movember movement......Page 458 PART VIII GENDER, HEALTH, SEXUALITY AND RIGHTS......Page 477 26. Men’s sexual health and destiny......Page 479 27. Claiming Rosa Parks: conservative Catholic bids for ‘rights’ in contemporary Latin America......Page 496 28. Conservative backlashes to women’s bodily integrity in Latin America: the case of Chile......Page 510 29. Deconstructing human rights-based discourses: the case of women’s right to health and health sector reforms in Brazil......Page 527 30. Men, masculinities and health in Brazil: a feminist critique......Page 544 31. Sexual health or rights? USAID-funded HIV/AIDS interventions for key populations in Ghana......Page 561 32. Positive women managing reproduction in the HIV pandemic......Page 583 Index......Page 597