Harvard Series on Gender and Health Equity

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Introduction

This series of research reports explores different themes in women's health from a gender and equity perspective, including: communicable disease, health sector reform, environmental health, occupational health, mental health, violence against women, policy, burden of disease, men's health and social discrimination.

The English versions of the documents were orginally published by the Global Reproductive Health Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health, and are available on their Website.

PAHO has translated the follwing seven documents, available as PDF files

• Comprender la salud de los hombres: Un enfoque relacional y sensible al género
  Don Sabo      (Download PDF)



• Desigualdades por razón de género en la salud ocupacional
  Piroska Östlin      (More Information...)



• Enfermedades transmisibles, género y equidad en la salud
  Pamela Hartigan      (Download PDF)



• Equidad de género y salud ambiental
  Jaqueline Sims and Maureen Butler      (More information...)



• El género y la reforma del sector salud
  Hilary Standing      (Download PDF)



• La medición del estado de la salud: Género, carga de morbilidad y establecimiento de prioridades en el sector salud
  Kara Hanson      (Download PDF)



• Violencia contra la mujer: Género y equidad en la salud
  Claudia García Moreno      (Download PDF)