Gender Articles

The following articles explore gender as a social and health determinent, and the important role of gender analysis in policy development. They are sourced from a wide range of sources including scholarly journals, health organsiations, as well as governmental and non-governmental policy insitiutions. Not all of the articles are available on-line but where they are availabe on-line the link is provided.

• Informed gender practice: mental health acute care that works for women, National Institute for Mental Health in England, July 2008

• 'The effect of patients' sex on physicians' recommendations for total knee arthroplasty' by C.M. Borkhoff, G.A. Hawker, H.J. Kreder, and colleagues in Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 178, No. 6, March, 2008

• To be who I am/Kia noho au ki toku ano ao, The Human Rights Commission, 2008

• 'Does increased gender equality lead to a convergence of health outcomes for men and women? A study of Swedish municipalities' by Mona C.Backhans and colleagues in Social Science and Medicine, 2007, Vol. 64, No. 9, May, pp. 1892-1903

• Social Science and Medicine Special Virual Issue: Gender and Health, 2007

• 'Unequal, Unfair, Ineffective and Inefficent' Gender Inequity in Health: Why it exists and how we can change it, Final Report to the WHO Comission on Social Determinants of Health, Women and Gender Equity Knoweldge Network, 2007

• 'Women, Health and Education' Healthy girls, healthy women: promoting health and healthy educational communities, Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education (CASWE) 6th Bi-annual international institute proceedings, May 2006

• Focusing on Women, Statisitics New Zealand report, 2005

• 'Disparate Fates in Challenging Times: Women's Policy Agencies and Neoliberalism in Aotearo/New Zealand and British Columbia', by Katherine Teghtsoonian in Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2005, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 307-333

• Changes in education and economic rights are necessary to improve women's health status, by Grown, C.; Rao Gupta, G.; Pande, R. in The Lancet, 2005

• The Canadian Women's Health Network presents "Women's Health in Canada: Beijing and Beyond," written by Olena Hankivsky, September 2005

• 'Older women's health priorities and perceptions of care delivery: results of the WOW health survey', by Cara Tannenbaum, Nancy Mayo and Fancine Ducharme, in Canadian Medical Association Journal, July 2005, Vol. 173, No. 2, pp. 153-159

• 'Neoliberalism and Gender Analysis Mainstreaming in Aotearoa/New Zealand' by Katherine Teghtsoonian in Australian Journal of Political Science, 2004, Vol. 39, No. 2, July, pp. 267-284

• United Nations University: Gender and Health Workshop Report, October 2004

• Globalization and Health: the gender dimension, Summary Paper, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Gender and Health, October 2004

• 'Women's Health in a Sick World' by Yifat Susskind, Communications Director, Madre, September 2003

• Including Gender in Health Planning: a guide for regional health authorties, by Lissa Donner, Prairie Women's Centre of Excellence for Health, May 2003

• 'Rethinking gender, risk and depression in Australian mental health policy' by Dr Simone Fullagar and Suzy Gattuso, in Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Helath (AeJAMH), Vol. 1, No. 3, 2002

• 'Multiple roles and health among British and Finnish women: The influence of socio-economic circumstances' by Eero Lahelma, Sara Arber, Katariina Kivela, Eva Roos, in Social Science & Medicine (2002) Vol. 54, pp. 727-740

• 'Gender equity and socio-economic inequality: A framework for the patterning of women's health', by Nancy E Moss, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, in Social Science & Medicine, 2002, Vol. 54, pp. 649-661

• 'Investigating socio-economic explanations for gender and ethnic inequalities in health', by Helen Cooper, Methodology Group, Office for National Statistics, in Social Science & Medicine, 2002, Vol. 54, pp. 693-706

• 'Women's health status in Poland in the transition to a market economy', by Wiktoria Wroblewska, Social Science & Medicine, 2002, Vol.54, pp. 707-726

• 'A generation apart? Gender-related experiences and health in women in early and late mid-life', by Kate Hunt, in Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 54, No.5, pp. 663-679

• 'Making Women Sick? Gender and Psychosocial Determinants of Occupational Health' by Celia Briar, paper given at the 2001 Women's Studies Association Conference, New Zealand

• 'Gender off the agenda' by Libby Plumridge and Lisa Fitzgerald, paper given at 2001 Women's Studies Association Conference, New Zealand

• Reproductive Health, Gender and Human Rights: A Dialogue, Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), 2001

• 'Gender, 'race', poverty, health and discourses of health reform in the context of globalisation: a postcolonial feminist perspective in policy research' by Joan M. Anderson in Nursing Inquiry, 2000, Vol. 7, pp. 220-229