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The Palgrave handbook of gender and healthcare

Bringing together international experts from different academic disciplines, this collection explores the challenges and opportunities of bringing gender to the heart of health policy, practice and research. It examines debates over health reform, access to services, the organization of care and professional development--

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Cover of: Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare
Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare
2012, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Palgrave handbook of gender and healthcare
2010, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer
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Table of Contents

Bringing gender to the heart of health policy, practice and research / Ellen Kuhlmann and Ellen Annandale
pt. I. Gendering healthcare and policy. Re-visiting gender justice in health and healthcare / Sarah Payne and Lesley Doyal
Gender equality and international health policy planning / Shelly N. Abdool, Claudia García-Moreno and Avni Amin
Gender equity and health sector reforms in low and middle-income countries / Hilary Standing
Gender-sensitive indicators for healthcare / Vivian Lin and Helen L'Orange
Gender assessment: European health research policies / Ineke Klinge
Gender and the medicalization of healthcare / Susan E. Bell and Anne E. Figert
pt. II. The social patterning of health by gender. Changing gendered patterns of morbidity and mortality / Chloe E. Bird, Martha E. Lang and Patricia P. Rieker
Reproductive regimes: governing gendered bodies / Elizabeth Ettore and Carol Kingdon
Coronary heart disease: gendered public health discourses / Elianne Riska
Gender and mental health / Joan Busfield
HIV/AIDS and gender / Leah Gilbert and Terry-Ann Selikow
pt. III. Equity and access to healthcare. Gender and help-seeking: towards gender-comparative studies / Kate Hunt, Joy Adamson and Paul Galdas
Gender differences in healthcare utilization in later life / Kakoli Roy and Anoshua Chaudhuri
Men's health and well-being / Toni Schofield
The healthcare needs of gay and lesbian patients / Jane Edwards
Mothers and children: what does their health tell us about gender? / Tulsi Patel
Gender, health, care and place: living in rural and remote communities / Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Rebecca Sutherns
pt. IV. Gendering the organization and delivery of healthcare. The new management of healthcare: 'Rational' performance and gendered actors / Jim Barry, Elisabeth Berg and John Chandler
Old age care policies: gendering institutional arrangements across countries / Viola Burau, Hildegard Theobald and Robert H. Blank
Primary prevention and health promotion: Towards gender-sensitive interventions / Petra Kolip
Gender and maternal healthcare / Jane Sandall, Cecilia Benoit, Edwin van Teijlingen, Sirpa Wrede, Eugene Declercq and Raymond De Vries
Women's health centres: creating spaces and institutional support / Pat Armstrong
pt. V. The professions as catalyst of gender-sensitive healthcare. Women in the medical profession: international trends / Elianne Riska
Sex, gender and health: developments in medical research / Toine Lagro-Janssen
Gender mainstreaming at the cross-roads of Eastern-Western healthcare / Ling-fang Cheng, Ellen Kuhlmann and Ellen Annandale
Nursing: globalization of a female-gendered profession / Sirpa Wrede
Gender and healthcare: the future / Ellen Annandale and Ellen Kuhlmann.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Basingstoke
Other Titles
Gender and healthcare

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.1
Library of Congress
RA427 .P17 2010, RA418-RA418.5HM401-1, RA427 .P354 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi , 482 p. :
Number of pages
482

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25309102M
ISBN 10
0230230318
ISBN 13
9780230230316
LCCN
2012382427
OCLC/WorldCat
548583332

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