Download or read book Access to Quality Gender sensitive Health Services written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Understanding the Well Being of LGBTQI Populations written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increase in prevalence and visibility of sexually gender diverse (SGD) populations illuminates the need for greater understanding of the ways in which current laws, systems, and programs affect their well-being. Individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, non-binary, queer, or intersex, as well as those who express same-sex or -gender attractions or behaviors, will have experiences across their life course that differ from those of cisgender and heterosexual individuals. Characteristics such as age, race and ethnicity, and geographic location intersect to play a distinct role in the challenges and opportunities SGD people face. Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations reviews the available evidence and identifies future research needs related to the well-being of SDG populations across the life course. This report focuses on eight domains of well-being; the effects of various laws and the legal system on SGD populations; the effects of various public policies and structural stigma; community and civic engagement; families and social relationships; education, including school climate and level of attainment; economic experiences (e.g., employment, compensation, and housing); physical and mental health; and health care access and gender-affirming interventions. The recommendations of Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations aim to identify opportunities to advance understanding of how individuals experience sexuality and gender and how sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex status affect SGD people over the life course.

Download or read book Gender Inequalities in Health written by Ellen Annandale and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '... a very useful addition to teaching material in the medical sociology/health studies field that will also be of value for teachers and students in women's studies.' - Mary Ann Elston, Royal Holloway University of London, UK '... Established wisdom about gender inequalities is due for critical questioning. This authoritative and challenging collection ... from some of the most respected names in the field ... will be essential reading for students and researchers in gender studies and medical sociology.' - Professor Mildred Blaxter, University of East Anglia, UK This state-of-the-art collection reflects critically upon the current status of our knowledge about gender inequalities in health and develops an agenda for future research. Leading experts address a range of themes that are central to the development of the field. These include recent theoretical and methodological developments in sociology and social policy, and the significance of changes in gender relations following wide-scale economic and social changes with respect to the mental and physical health status of men and women. The collection focuses upon gender and health within industrialized nations including Britain, North America, Western and Eastern Europe. It will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of sociology, health policy, health studies and gender studies.

Download or read book Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he starting point for this guideline is the point at which a woman has learnt that she is living with HIV and it therefore covers key issues for providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights-related services and support for women living with HIV. As women living with HIV face unique challenges and human rights violations related to their sexuality and reproduction within their families and communities as well as from the health-care institutions where they seek care particular emphasis is placed on the creation of an enabling environment to support more effective health interventions and better health outcomes. This guideline is meant to help countries to more effectively and efficiently plan develop and monitor programmes and services that promote gender equality and human rights and hence are more acceptable and appropriate for women living with HIV taking into account the national and local epidemiological context. It discusses implementation issues that health interventions and service delivery must address to achieve gender equality and support human rights.

Download or read book Drawdown written by Paul Hawken and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • New York Times bestseller • The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world “At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” —Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming “There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” —David Roberts, Vox “This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” —Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.

Download or read book Gender Equity in Health written by Gita Sen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines to examine three areas: health disparities and inequity due to gender, the specific problems women face in meeting the highest attainable standards of health, and the policies and actions that can address them.

Download or read book Barriers to Access Health Care Services for Transgender and Gender Dysphoric Population Enrolled in Medicaid written by Brenda Matheu and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgender and people with gender dysphoria account for about 1 million of the U.S. population. This population encounters many barriers to access basic healthcare services. The barriers include discrimination in healthcare settings from staff and providers, and lack of insurance coverage for medically necessary treatment of gender dysphoria. There is a reported shortage of medical providers that are proficient in basic transgender health and many are denied services due to this reason. Transgender individuals report multiple encounters in health care organizations where they are discriminated based on gender, and staff including providers lack proper gender-sensitive knowledge. The unwelcoming healthcare setting discourages the transgender and gender dysphoric patient to seek medical care to avoid unpleasant, uncomfortable and triggering encounters. A high percentage of transgender people state that they delay medical care even when medically necessary to avoid the stress of not being socially accepted. The result of lack of patient follow-up and care of transgender and patients with gender dysphoria experience promote many health disparities including depression, anxiety, STD treatment and prevention including HIV, and other chronic health problems. Transgender population reports high unemployment rates and high poverty levels, placing them disproportionately in the eligibility criteria of Medicaid. There is an insufficient coverage for gender-affirming care such as gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) and gender-affirming surgery (GAS) through the use of state and federal-funded programs such as Medicaid. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has aided efforts for inclusive medical care coverage under Section 1557, a non-discriminatory inclusion, but coverage remains limited and access at an all-time low. Improving access to healthcare services by training more providers in transgender health and becoming gender-sensitive to reduce discrimination is essential to significantly improve the quality of life and health disparities among the TG community.

Download or read book A guide to creating gender sensitive health services written by and published by The Women's Health Council. This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gender Sensitivity in Primary Care Three Studies written by Claire Than and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensitivity to gender differences in health and healthcare needs influence gender equality in health and access to care. One of the barriers to enhancing gender sensitivity of the healthcare workforce has been related to the under-representation of women in either the workforce or patient population. This dissertation tried to understand workforce gender sensitivity when female patients are a minority group in a healthcare organization. The three studies in this dissertation focused on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system where only 8% of patients are women Veterans. Because the VA has historically been designed to care for male Veterans, there are general concerns that the majority of VA workforce may not be ready to care for women Veterans or sensitive to the care needs of women Veterans. This dissertation used VA primary care provider (PCP) and staff surveys and VA administrative data from a cluster randomized controlled trial of an evidence-based quality improvement (EBQI) strategy for implementation of VA Women's Health Patient-Aligned Care Teams (WH-PACTs). The objectives of this dissertation were to understand the VA workforce gender sensitivity, the impact of the EBQI initiative on the workforce gender sensitivity, and the relationship between the workforce gender sensitivity and primary care discontinuance among women Veterans. This dissertation is divided into three studies. The first study examined the individual characteristics associated with gender sensitivity four years after the VA began PACT implementation in 2010. The VA PACT policy recommended tailoring PACT to meet the primary care needs of women Veterans through the implementation of WH-PACTs. To support WH-PACTs, the policy also recommends increasing the primary care workforce who are skilled in women's health by training current employees and hiring additional qualified providers and staff. Tailoring practices from male-centric care to female-oriented care may depend, in part, on the gender-sensitive attitudes of the workforce. This study evaluated gender sensitivity within the context of the PACT policy. Using cross-sectional surveys, PCP and staff gender sensitivity was measured using a validated 10-item gender sensitivity measure. A total of 256 PCPs and staff responded (39% response rate). Using linear regression weighted for survey non-response, the results indicated that the volume of women Veterans seen locally, individual practice experience with caring for women patients, working in WH-PACTs compared to general PACTs, communication quality within clinics, and years worked at VA were significantly associated with gender sensitivity. However, each characteristic associated with gender sensitivity varied statistically between PCPs and staff. The second study evaluated whether participation in facilitated quality improvement (e.g., EBQI), compared to self-directed QI, for WH-PACT implementation would influence gender-sensitive attitudes of the primary care workforce. Twelve VA medical centers (VAMCs) were randomized into eight EBQI sites and four control sites. The eight EBQI sites received a combination of multilevel stakeholder engagement, leadership support, QI training, formative feedback, and practice facilitation on their local QI initiatives for WH-PACT implementation. The four control sites implemented WH-PACTs on their own. Using the same validated 10-item gender sensitivity measure, PCP and staff gender sensitivity was assessed at baseline (N=256, 37% response rate) and 24-month (N=222, 29% response rate). The difference-in-differences analysis showed that the EBQI sites improved gender sensitivity over time compared to the control sites, possibly because EBQI reduced challenges associated with QI and in-turn increased interest in QI for female patients among providers and staff. The third study assessed the relationship between the provider and staff gender sensitivity and women Veterans discontinuing from VA primary care within three years. PCPs and staff from 12 VAMCs who participated in the 2014 cross-sectional surveys (N=256) were linked to women Veterans who visited them at the same VA for primary care (N=9,958). The dependent variable was the absence of VA primary care visits among women Veterans within three years after their last primary care visit. Controlling for provider, staff, and women Veteran characteristics, multivariate logistic regression indicated that poor PCP and staff gender sensitivity was associated with women Veterans discontinuing primary care within three years. These findings can inform policymakers as well as VA and non-VA healthcare systems transforming practices to improve care for female patients and enhancing gender sensitivity of the healthcare workforce important to closing the gender gap in health quality and outcomes.

Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Download or read book A Guide to Creating Gender sensitive Health Services written by Women's Health Council (Ireland) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maternal and Child Health written by John Ehiri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-03 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our current era of globalization, war, and socioeconomic unrest has revealed public health as a worldwide concern and a major frontier for social justice with maternal and child health at its epicenter. Yet, there has been a relative scarcity of training resources specifically dedicated to this crucial area. "Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies" addresses this gap in current knowledge by analyzing the range of socioeconomic and environmental factors, health care disparities, politics, policies, and cultural practices that impact the health and safety of mothers, as well as the well-being and optimum development of their children. Individual sections focus on unequal distribution of the world’s resources, politics and power, specific disease concerns, programs, policies and emerging concerns with a focus on what is currently being done, and what needs to be done to improve the health status of women, children, and adolescents. The book’s contributors are some of the world’s most respected experts, carefully selected to represent different global geographic regions and diverse professional disciplines related to maternal and child health from both academic and field practice perspectives. Among the topics in this authoritative volume: The impact of war, globalization, gender inequity, and harmful traditional practices (e.g., female genital mutilation). Specific health concerns, including tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, and malnutrition. Child and adolescent health issues, from abuse and neglect to children in difficult circumstances. Pregnancy-related issues: safety, abortion and post-abortion care, teen pregnancy, and more. Strategies for planning, developing, and maintaining maternal and child health systems in developing countries. The status of global initiatives, such as Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses and the Millennium Development Goals. The status of evidence-based maternal and child health in the developing world. With such a wealth of information on both practical and conceptual levels, "Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies" is as relevant to students and researchers in the field as it is to policy makers and those working for global health and development organizations. It also makes an excellent stand-alone text for courses in global health in general and global maternal and child health in particular.

Download or read book Disparities and Gender Gaps in Women s Health 1996 written by Barbara L. Kass-Bartelmes and published by Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality. This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gender Equality and Sustainable Development written by Melissa Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way. Gender Equality and Sustainable Development calls for policies, investments and initiatives in sustainable development that recognize women’s knowledge, agency and decision-making as fundamental. Four key sets of issues - work and industrial production; population and reproduction; food and agriculture, and water, sanitation and energy provide focal lenses through which these challenges are considered. Perspectives from new feminist political ecology and economy are integrated, alongside issues of rights, relations and power. The book untangles the complex interactions between different dimensions of gender relations and of sustainability, and explores how policy and activism can build synergies between them. Finally, this book demonstrates how plural pathways are possible; underpinned by different narratives about gender and sustainability, and how the choices between these are ultimately political. This timely book will be of great interest to students, scholars, practitioners and policy makers working on gender, sustainable development, development studies and ecological economics.

Download or read book Women s Access to Gender Sensitive Health Services a Multi Country Case Study of the Kelantan Family Planning Association KFPA Malaysia written by Wong Yut Lin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gender Equality Results Case Study written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urban Primary Health Care Project strengthened and expanded primary health care infrastructure and services with a focus on the urban poor in Bangladesh. The overall purpose of the project was to improve access to and utilization of efficient, effective, and sustainable high-quality primary health care services for the urban poor areas covered by the project, with particular focus on women and girls. The project provided preventative and curative services, including access to immunization, reproductive health services, limited curative care, nutrition-related services, community outreach on health issues, and assistance for women survivors of violence. In project areas, there were significant improvements in key indicators, including under-5 mortality, maternal mortality, total fertility, child malnutrition, and control of sexually transmitted infections.

Download or read book A guide to creating gender sensitive health services written by and published by The Women's Health Council. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: