Women, Health and Environment: an Anthology
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| Description | WHO is therefore encouraging activities in the sphere of women and health, with a view to filling this information gap and promoting gender-specific research aimed at producing the hard data necessary to demonstrate the poor health status of millions of women, particularly those in developing countries. These training materials on Women, Health and Environment constitute one such attempt. The package comprises three parts - an Anthology of brief examples of issues related to women, health and environment, a Teacher's Guide, and a bibliography of literature relevant to these topics. A series of case-studies and problem-based exercises evolved around key areas identified during the preparation of the Anthology is envisaged in the future. We hope that materials of this kind will be useful to teachers of environmental health, public health, family health, sociology, social medicine, medical anthropology, women's studies or development studies. The aim of the Anthology is to bridge a number of gaps in existing concepts and understanding of the environmental factors affecting women's health, and to create clearer linkages in the area of women, health and environment, which are often still addressed as disparate issues. It appears that although there are acknowledged linkages between women and health, and more recently between women and environment, there is less understanding of how all three areas interrelate. |
| File size | 7 kB |
| Date | 17-09-2003 at 21h06 |