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Gender and Health News
Prevention and Care of Gender-Based Violence
Gender Equity
Gender Equity in Health Sector Reform
Sub-Committee on Women, Health and Development
Harvard Series on Gender and Health Equity
More on Gender and Health
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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
To commemorate November 25th, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Gender and Health Unit has release a series of fact sheets and will host a panel presentation on Violence Against Women: The Unfinished Agenda.
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Violence against Women: The Health Sector Responds
This book is a collaborative effort of PAHO (GHU), PATH, the CDC and WHO to
address violence against women as a global public health and human rights problem. It provides concrete approaches for addressing VAW, not only for those on the front lines attending to the women who live with violence, but
also for decision-makers who can incorporate the lessons reviewed in this book in the development of laws and policies.
VAWhealthsector.htm
Online Bookstore
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Gender, Health and Development in the Americas 2003
This data sheet profiles gender differences in health and development in 48 countries of the Americas, focusing on women’s reproductive health, access to key health services, and major causes of death. Its objective is to raise awareness of gender inequities in the region and to promote the use of sex-disaggregated health statistics for policies and programs.
GenderBrochure.htm
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Gender Equity in Health Advocacy Pack
As part of its Advocacy Pack series, the Women, Health and Development Program announces its new Gender Equity in Health Advocacy Pack! The kit consists of a fact sheet, an issue paper and a PowerPoint presentation, which present the ethical and empirical underpinnings of the effort to incorporate the gender perspective in health policies and programs.
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Gender Equity |
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Fact Sheet: Gender Equity in Health
GEHFactSheet.pdf
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Gender, Health and Development in the Americas 2003
This data sheet profiles gender differences in health and development in 48 countries of the Americas, focusing on women’s reproductive health, access to key health services, and major causes of death. Its objective is to raise awareness of gender inequities in the region and to promote the use of sex-disaggregated health statistics for policies and programs.
GenderBrochure.htm
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Gender Mainstreaming Web Page
This web page provides a list of resources on gender mainstreaming, gender analysis, and integrating gender into specific health topics, programmes, and projects.
Mainstreaming.htm
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Gender Equity in Health Advocacy Pack
As part of its Advocacy Pack series, the Women, Health and Development Program announces its new Gender Equity in Health Advocacy Pack! The kit consists of a fact sheet, an issue paper and a PowerPoint presentation, which present the ethical and empirical underpinnings of the effort to incorporate the gender perspective in health policies and programs.
advocacykits.htm
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Harvard Series on Gender and Health Equity
A series of research reports exploring different themes in gender and women's health: communicable disease, health sector reform, environmental health, occupational health, mental health, violence against women, policy, burden of disease, men's health and social discrimination. Available in English at the Global Reproductive Health Forum.
PAHO has translated the following five documents, available below in Spanish.
- Frameworks for Understanding Gender Inequalities and Health Sector Reform: An Analysis and Review of Policy Issues
- Understanding Men's Health: A Relational and Gender-Sensitive Approach
- Measuring Up: Gender, Burden of Disease, and Priority-setting Techniques in the Health Sector
- Violence Against Women: Gender and Health Equity
- Communicable Diseases, Gender and Equity in Health
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