Gender Issues and Public Health

Gender Issues and Public Health.

Gender is one of the most important considerations in public health research and program implementation. Basic issues such as protecting women from violence, upholding their rights to property and equality in access to health, education, employment, and political participation are important to society and for public health. Gender inequality exists both within and outside the health system and ...

Gender Issues in Health Sector

Gender wise analysis of data brings out biological, behavioural and social variables which indicate inequality in the health parameters in male and female sex. There is discrimination against women. Right to birth is denied by sex selective elimination, right to survival is denied by the neglect of girl child resulting in declining trend of child sex ratio which has reached an alarming low leve...

Gender issues on occupational safety and health.

The increasing proportion of women in the workforce raises a range of gender-related questions about the different effects of work-related risks on men and women. Few studies have characterized gender differences across occupations and industries, although at this time, the gender sensitive approach is starting to acquire relevance in the field of human preventive medicine. The European Agency ...

Public health issues in disasters.

OBJECTIVE This article outlines a number of important areas in which public health can contribute to making overall disaster management more effective. This article discusses health effects of some of the more important sudden impact natural disasters and potential future threats (e.g., intentional or deliberately released biologic agents) and outlines the requirements for effective emergency m...

Public health issues---aspects of health promotion.