Volume 23, Issue 1: Gender and Primary Health Care: Some Forward Looking Strategies
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Editorial: Gender and Health: An Introduction
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Rapid Rural Appraisal, Gender and Health – Alternative ways of listening to needs
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary The article describes the use of Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) in training development workers to think differently about the issues of gender and health. It is argued that unless a change in perspective takes place ... -
Women's Time and the Use of Health Services
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary The premise of this paper is that services and information can only contribute to improving health to the extent that people are aware of them, are able to make use of them, and choose to do so. Many service?related ... -
Gender and the Production of Health Care Services: Issues for Women's Roles in Health Development
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary Female health workers often make up to 75 per cent or more of the health sector workforce in developing countries, and yet they remain underpaid and relatively powerless. This article looks at the role of women ... -
Sexuality — The Missing Link in Women' Health
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary This article outlines some of the ways in which women are particularly vulnerable to risk in relation to their sexuality, and suggests how primary health care programme could begin to address the impact of sexuality ... -
Indicators for Women's Health in Developing Countries: What They Reveal and Conceal
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary The health of women has recently resurfaced in the health policy debate and has tended to become viewed as important primarily because of its contribution to infant health. Maternal deaths are characterised by a ... -
Who Determines Need? A Case Study of a Women' Organisation in North India
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1992)Summary This paper addresses the issues of women's empowerment and political participation in relation to development programmes. Drawing upon comparative work within western capitalist societies, I suggest that needs ...