The importance of gender analysis in research for health systems strengthening

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dc.contributor.authorTheobald, Sally
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Rosemary
dc.contributor.authorHawkins, Kate
dc.contributor.authorSsali, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorGeorge, Asha S.
dc.contributor.authorMolyneux, Sassy
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-03T11:44:38Z
dc.date.available2018-01-03T11:44:38Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis editorial discusses a collection of papers examining gender across a range of health policy and systems contexts, from access to services, governance, health financing, and human resources for health. The papers interrogate differing health issues and core health systems functions using a gender lens. Together they produce new knowledge on the multiple impacts of gender on health experiences and demonstrate the importance of gender analyses and gender sensitive interventions for promoting well-being and health systems strengthening. The findings from these papers collectively show how gender intersects with other axes of inequity within specific contexts to shape experiences of health and health seeking within households, communities and health systems; illustrate how gender power relations affect access to important resources; and demonstrate that gender norms, poverty and patriarchy interplay to limit women’s choices and chances both within household interactions and within the health sector. Health systems researchers have a responsibility to promote the incorporation of gender analyses into their studies in order to inform more strategic, effective and equitable health systems interventions, programmes, and policies. Responding to gender inequitable systems, institutions, and services in this sector requires an ‘all hands-on deck’ approach. We cannot claimto take a ‘people-centred approach’ to health systems if the status quo continues.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTheobald, S. et al. (2017). The importance of gender analysis in research for health systems strengthening. Health Policy and Planning, 32: v1 – v3en_US
dc.identifier.issn0268-1080
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czx163
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3338
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.rightsCopyright: The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectHealth systemsen_US
dc.subjectHealth systems researchen_US
dc.subjectHuman resourcesen_US
dc.subjectHealth financingen_US
dc.subjectHealth servicesen_US
dc.subjectGovernanceen_US
dc.subjectEquityen_US
dc.subjectHealth inequalitiesen_US
dc.titleThe importance of gender analysis in research for health systems strengtheningen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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