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David Mcdaid
LSE Health and Social Care
Engendering International Health
The Challenge of Equity
edited by Gita Sen, Asha George, and Piroska Östlin
Engendering International Health presents the work of leading
researchers on gender equity in international health. Growing economic
inequalities reinforce social injustices, stall health gains, and deny
good health to many. In particular, deep-seated gender biases in health
research and policy institutions combine with a lack of well-articulated
and accessible evidence to downgrade the importance of gender
perspectives in health. The book's central premise is that unless public
health changes direction, it cannot effectively address the needs of
those who are most marginalized, many of whom are women.
The book offers evidence and analysis for both low- and high-income
countries, providing a gender and health analysis cross-cut by a concern
for other markers of social inequity, such as class and race. It details
approaches and agendas that incorporate, but go beyond, commonly
acknowledged issues relating to women's health; and it brings gender and
equity analysis into the heart of the debates that dominate
international health policy.
Gita Sen is Sri Ratan Tata Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of
Management, Bangalore, India, and Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard School
of Public Health. Asha George is a doctoral candidate at the Institute
of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and a Research Fellow at
the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Piroska
Östlin is a Senior Researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm
and a Research Associate at the Harvard Center for Population and
Development Studies.
Contributors
Jill Astbury, Maggie Bangser, Nancy Breen, Maureen Butter, Jane
Cottingham, Asha George, Kara Hanson, Pamela Hartigan, Aditi Iyer,
Claudia Garcia Moreno, Cynthia Myntti, Piroska Östlin, Janet Price, Gita
Sen, Jacqueline Sims, Rachel Snow, Hilary Standing, Rachel Tolhurst.
6 x 9, 510 pp., 21 illus., paper ISBN 0-262-69273-2, cloth ISBN
0-262-19469-4
Basic Bioethics series
A Bradford Book
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