The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare

by Kuhlmann, Ellen; Annandale, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780230230316
• ISBN10: 0230230318
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This authoritative, state-of-the-art reference collection addresses the main issues and core debates related to gender and healthcare in one accessible volume. Mapping the field, and drawing together cutting-edge research on gender and healthcare, this essential guide to an area of increasing interest provides a critical overview of debates as well as practical guidance on how to bring gender perspectives to the heart of international health policy, practice and research. Providing an integrated and context-sensitive approach that focuses on men's and women's health, actor-centred and institutional approaches to healthcare, as well as to the needs of service users and professionals, this comprehensive and innovative overview examines both the developed and developing world, and explores intersections between gender and a wide range of social inequalities. Divided into five parts this panoramic survey covers The gendering of healthcare and policy The social patterning of health by gender Equity and access to healthcare The organization and delivery of healthcare Health professions and gender Offering an impressive range of international world class expertise and insight, each chapter includes a chapter summary and an overview of key reading, making this Handbook an invaluable companion for a wide range of academics, researchers, practitioners and policymakers.

Author Biography

ELLEN KUHLMANN is Visiting Professor of Sociology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK. She has published widely in German, and her recent English publications include Modernising Health Care: Reinventing Professions, the State and the Public and Rethinking Professional Governance:International Direction in Healthcare.
 
ELLEN ANNANDALE is Reader in Sociology, University of Leicester, UK. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Social Science& Medicine. Her work focuses on the relationship between gender and health.  She is author of The Sociology of Health and Medicine and co-editor of five edited collections including New Connections: Towards a Gender Inclusive Approach to Women's and Men's Health. Her most recent book is Women's Health and SocialChange.

Table of Contents

Figures	p. viii
Tables	p. ix
Boxes	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction
Bringing Gender to the Heart of Health Policy, Practice and Research	p. 1
Gendering Healthcare and Policy	p. 19
Re-visiting Gender Justice in Health and Healthcare	p. 21
Gender Equality and International Health Policy Planning	p. 36
Gender Equity and Health Sector Reforms in Low and Middle-income Countries	p. 56
Gender-sensitive Indicators for Healthcare	p. 72
Gender Assessment: European Health Research Policies	p. 91
Gender and the Medicalization of Healthcare	p. 107
The Social Patterning of Health by Gender	p. 123
Changing Gendered Patterns of Morbidity and Mortality	p. 125
Reproductive Regimes: Governing Gendered Bodies	p. 142
Coronary Heart Disease: Gendered Public Health Discourses	p. 158
Gender and Mental Health	p. 172
HIV/AIDS and Gender	p. 189
Equity and Access to Healthcare	p. 205
Gender and Help-seeking: Towards Gender-comparative Studies	p. 207
Gender Differences in Healthcare Utilization in Later Life	p. 222
Men's Health and Well-being	p. 239
The Healthcare Needs of Gay and Lesbian Patients	p. 256
Mothers and Children: What Does Their Health Tell Us about Gender?	p. 272
Gender, Health, Care and Place: Living in Rural and Remote Communities	p. 287
Gendering the Organization and Delivery of Healthcare	p. 303
The New Management of Healthcare: 'Rational' Performance and Gendered Actors	p. 305
Old Age Care Policies: Gendering Institutional Arrangements across Countries	p. 321
Primary Prevention and Health Promotion: Towards Gender-Sensitive Interventions	p. 337
Gender and Maternal Healthcare	p. 355
Women's Health Centres: Creating Spaces and Institutional Support	p. 371
The Professions as Catalyst of Gender-sensitive Healthcare	p. 387
Women in the Medical Profession: International Trends	p. 389
Sex, Gender and Health: Developments in Medical Research	p. 405
Gender Mainstreaming at the Cross-roads of Eastern-Western Healthcare	p. 421
Nursing: Globalization of a Female-gendered Profession	p. 437
Conclusion
Gender and Healthcare: The Future	p. 454
Index	p. 470
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