ISBN:
9781137015143
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (560 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Medical care -- Sex differences
;
Health -- Sex differences
;
Social medicine
;
Discrimination in medical care
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
An authoritative, state-of-the-art collection that brings together key experts to provide an overview of the field. This new paperback edition includes 3 new chapters on human resources and health, end-of-life care and complementary and alternative medicine as well as thorough updates to the introduction and conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Notes on Contributors; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction: Bringing Gender to the Heart of Health Policy, Practice and Research; Part I: Gendering Healthcare and Policy; 1. Re-visiting Gender Justice in Health and Healthcare; 2. Gender Equality and International Health Policy Planning; 3. Gender Equity and Health Sector Reforms in Low and Middle-income Countries; 4. Gendering Health Human Resource Policy and Management; 5. Gender-sensitive Indicators for Healthcare; 6. Gender Assessment: European Health Research Policies
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Gender and the Medicalization of HealthcarePart II: The Social Patterning of Health by Gender; 8. Changing Gendered Patterns of Morbidity and Mortality; 9. Reproductive Regimes: Governing Gendered Bodies; 10. Coronary Heart Disease: Gendered Public Health Discourses; 11. Gender and Mental Health; 12. HIV/AIDS and Gender; 13. Gender and End-of-life Care; Part III: Equity and Access to Healthcare; 14. Gender and Help-seeking: Towards Gender-comparative Studies; 15. Gender Differences in Healthcare Utilization in Later Life; 16. Men's Health and Well-being
Description / Table of Contents:
17. The Healthcare Needs of Gay and Lesbian Patients18. Mothers and Children: What Does Their Health Tell Us about Gender?; 19. Gender, Health, Care and Place: Living in Rural and Remote Communities; Part IV: Gendering the Organization and Delivery of Healthcare; 20. The New Management of Healthcare: 'Rational' Performance and Gendered Actors; 21. Old Age Care Policies: Gendering Institutional Arrangements across Countries; 22. Primary Prevention and Health Promotion: Towards Gender-sensitive Interventions; 23. Gender and Maternal Healthcare
Description / Table of Contents:
24. Women's Health Centres: Creating Spaces and Institutional SupportPart V: The Professions as Catalyst of Gender-sensitive Healthcare; 25. Women in the Medical Profession: International Trends; 26. Sex, Gender and Health: Developments in Medical Research; 27. Gender Mainstreaming at the Cross-roads of Eastern-Western Healthcare; 28. Nursing: Globalization of a Female-gendered Profession; 29. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Gender and Marginality; Conclusion: Gender and Healthcare: The Future; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Bringing Gender to the Heart of Health Policy, Practice and Research; Part I: Gendering Healthcare and Policy; 1 Re-visiting Gender Justice in Health and Healthcare; 2 Gender Equality and International Health Policy Planning; 3 Gender Equity and Health Sector Reforms in Low and Middle-income Countries; 4 Gender-sensitive Indicators for Healthcare; 5 Gender Assessment: European Health Research Policies; 6 Gender and the Medicalization of Healthcare; Part II: The Social Patterning of Health by Gender
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Changing Gendered Patterns of Morbidity and Mortality8 Reproductive Regimes: Governing Gendered Bodies; 9 Coronary Heart Disease: Gendered Public Health Discourses; 10 Gender and Mental Health; 11 HIV/AIDS and Gender; Part III: Equity and Access to Healthcare; 12 Gender and Help-seeking: Towards Gender-comparative Studies; 13 Gender Differences in Healthcare Utilization in Later Life; 14 Men's Health and Well-being; 15 The Healthcare Needs of Gay and Lesbian Patients; 16 Mothers and Children: What Does Their Health Tell Us about Gender?
Description / Table of Contents:
17 Gender, Health, Care and Place: Living in Rural and Remote CommunitiesPart IV: Gendering the Organization and Delivery of Healthcare; 18 The New Management of Healthcare: 'Rational' Performance and Gendered Actors; 19 Old Age Care Policies: Gendering Institutional Arrangements across Countries; 20 Primary Prevention and Health Promotion: Towards Gender-sensitive Interventions; 21 Gender and Maternal Healthcare; 22 Women's Health Centres: Creating Spaces and Institutional Support; Part V: The Professions as Catalyst of Gender-sensitive Healthcare
Description / Table of Contents:
23 Women in the Medical Profession: International Trends24 Sex, Gender and Health: Developments in Medical Research; 25 Gender Mainstreaming at the Cross-roads of Eastern-Western Healthcare; 26 Nursing: Globalization of a Female-gendered Profession; Conclusion: Gender and Healthcare: The Future; Index;
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