Power, people and processes: A gender analysis of adolescent health policy in South Africa
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Global
Strategy (2016-2030) emphasise that all women, children and adolescents ‘survive, thrive and
transform’. A key element of this global policy framework is that gender equality is both a
standalone goal, as well as a cross-cutting priority. Gender power relations are both social
and structural determinants of health and shape health policy content, processes and systems.
There are critical gaps in knowledge in terms of how gender inequality, and its
intersectionality with other axes of power, shape adolescents’ health, as well as health policy
and systems in South Africa.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
Keywords
Gender equality, Public health, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Health policy, South Africa