Making It Better: Gender-transformative Health Promotion

ISBN 10: 0889615195 / ISBN 13: 9780889615199

Published by Womens Pr, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making It Better: Gender-transformative Health Promotion
• Publisher: Womens Pr
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889615195
• ISBN 13: 9780889615199
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

In this innovative collection, leading thinkers in clinical medicine, sociology, epidemiology, kinesiology, education, and public policy reveal how health promotion is failing communities by failing women. Despite a longstanding consensus that social inequalities shape global patterns of illness and opportunities for health, mainstream health promotion frameworks continue to ignore gender at relational, household, community, and state levels. Exploring the ways in which gendered norms affect health and social equity for all human beings, Making It Better invites us to rethink conventional approaches to health promotion and to strive for transformative initiatives and policies. Offering practical tools and evidence-based strategies for moving from gender integration to gender transformation, this anthology is required reading for policymakers, health promotion and healthcare practitioners, researchers, community developers, and social service providers.

About the Author

Lorraine Greaves is Senior Investigator at the BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health. Ann Pederson is the Director of Population Health Promotion at BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre. She worked for over 17 years at the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health and is currently completing a doctorate at the University of British Columbia in sex, gender, and health promotion. Nancy Poole is Director of Research and Knowledge Translation at the BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health in Vancouver.