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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Gender Equity in Health <br>
The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Editor : Gita Sen, Piroska Östlin<br>ISBN: 978-0-415-80190-4 - Published by: Routledge<br>
Publication Date: 29th September 2009 </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: <a href="http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/html/moreinfo.asp?bookid=536972444" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/html/moreinfo.asp?bookid=536972444</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And <a href="http://www.routledgesociology.com/books/Gender-Equity-in-Health-isbn9780415801904" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.routledgesociology.com/books/Gender-Equity-in-Health-isbn9780415801904</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">‘….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.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This volume brings together experts from a variety of disciplines, such as medicine, biology, sociology, epidemiology, anthropology, economics and political science, who focus on three areas: <br>
- health disparities and inequity due to gender, <br>- the specific problems women face in meeting the highest attainable standards of health, and <br>- the policies and actions that can address them. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Highlighting the importance of intersecting social hierarchies (e.g. gender, class and ethnicity) for understanding health inequities and their implications for health policy, contributors detail and recommend policy approaches and agendas that incorporate, but go beyond commonly acknowledged issues relating to women’s health and gender equity in health….”</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Contents:</span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">1. Gender as a Social Determinant of Health: Evidence, Policies and Innovations <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Gita Sen and Piroska Östlin</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2. The Social Body: Gender and the Burden of Disease <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Rachel Snow</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">3. Inequalities and Intersections in Health: A Review of the Evidence <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Aditi Iyer, Gita Sen and Piroska Östlin</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">4. Gendered Health Outcomes of an "Endless" War on Terror <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Rosalind Petchesky and Melissa Laurie</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">5. Gender, Health and Poverty in Latin America <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Karina Batthyany and Sonia Corrêa</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">6. Gender Norms and Empowerment: ‘What Works’ to Increase Equity for Women and Girls <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Helen Keleher</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">7. Challenging Gender in Patient-Provider Interactions <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Veloshnee Govender and Loveday Penn-Kekana</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">8. Exploring the Gendered Dimensions of Human Resources for Health <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Asha George</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">9. Accountability to Citizens on Gender and Health <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Ranjani K. Murthy</span></i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">10. Gender Mainstreaming in Health: The Emperor’s New Clothes? <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">T.K.S. Ravindran and A. Kelkar-Khambete</span></i></span></font></p>
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</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Select “Title” in the drop-down menu under “eBooks Search”<br>Type in: Gender Equity in Health<br>If the book appears in the results, click “More” following the brief description. <br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://www.ewidgetsonline.com/dxreader/Reader.aspx?token=A0Nj%2buC50dnw7fllsc6lKw%3d%3d&rand=455160813&buyNowLink=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk%2fhtml%2fmoreinfo.asp%3fbookid%3d536972444" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">You should be taken to a page where you can click on an image of the book and view the first 30 pages.</span></font></a></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Piroska Östlin, Ph.D, Associate Professor <br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Karolinska Institutet <br></span></b>Department of Public Health Sciences - Division of Global Health (IHCAR) <br>Stockholm, Sweden</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"> </span></font></p>
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