Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare (eBook)

SHELLY N. ABDOOL is a Technical Officer in the Department of Gender, Women and Health at the World Health Organization JOY ADAMSON is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences, University of York, UK AVNI AMIN is a technical officer in the Department of Gender, Women and Health at the World Health Organization PAT ARMSTRONG is Professor in Sociology at York University, Canada JIM BARRY is Professor of Gender and Organization Studies at the University of East London, UK SUSAN E. BELL is Professor of Sociology and A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College in Maine, USA CECILIA BENOIT is a Scientist at the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia and Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria, Canada ELISABETH BERG is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Human Work Science, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the University of East London, UK CHLOE E. BIRD is Senior Sociologist at the RAND Corporation and Professor of Sociology at Pardee RAND Graduate School, USA ROBERT H. BLANK is Research Scholar at the New College of Florida, USA, and Professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand IVY L. BOURGEAULT is Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, CanadaALEX BROOM Associate Professor of Sociology and Australia Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia VIOLA BURAU is Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark JOAN BUSFIELD is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK SARAH CANT Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Social Science at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK JOHN CHANDLER is Reader in Organization Studies in the Business School, University of East London, UK ANOSHUA CHAUDHURI is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, San Francisco State University, USA LING-FANG CHENG is Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Gender Studies, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan RAYMOND DE VRIES is Professor in the Bioethics Program and the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medical Education at the University of Michigan Medical School, USA EUGENE DECLERCQ is Professor of Community Health Sciences and Assistant Dean for Doctoral Education at the Boston University School of Public Health and Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Boston University School of Medicine, USA LESLEY DOYAL is Emeritus Professor in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK, and Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa JANE EDWARDS is undertaking research on the impact of work-life issues on sustainable lifestyles at the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia ELIZABETH ETTORE is Professor of Sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool, UK ANNE E. FIGERT is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago, USA PAUL GALDAS is Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada CLAUDIA GARCIA-MORENO is a physician from Mexico with a Masters in Community Medicine from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK LEAH GILBERT is Professor of Health Sociology in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa KATE HUNT is Honorary Professor in the Division of Community-based Sciences at Glasgow University, UK and Professorial Fellow at Stirling University, UK CAROL KINGDON is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Health, University of Central Lancashire, UK INEKE KLINGE is Associate Professor of Gender/Diversity Medicine at School Caphri, Maastricht University, Netherlands PETRA KOLIP is Professor of Prevention and Health Promotion at Bielefeld University, Germany TOINE LAGRO-JANSSEN is Principal Lecturer and Head of the Unit Women's Health, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, at St Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands MARTHA E. LANG is Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology/Anthropology and Coordinator of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Resources at Guilford College, USA CHRISTA LARSEN Managing Director of the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture (IWAK) at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany VIVIAN LIN is Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia HELEN L'ORANGE is an Honorary Associate, School of Public Health, La Trobe University Australia TULSI PATEL is Professor of Sociology and teaches at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India SARAH PAYNE is Reader in the School for Policy Studies, Bristol University, UK PATRICIA P. RIEKER is Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Boston University and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, USA ELIANNE RISKA is Professor of Sociology at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland KAKOLI ROY is a Senior Economist at the Centers for Disease Control of Prevention (CDC), United States Department of Health and Human Services JANE SANDALL is Professor of Social Sciences and Women's Health in the Department of Public Health, King's College, London, UK TONI SCHOFIELD is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia TERRY-ANN SELIKOW is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa HILARY STANDING is Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK REBECCA SUTHERNS specializes in researching and creating sustainable, accessible models of healthcare for marginalized populations HILDEGARD THEOBALD is Professor at the Research Centre on Ageing and Society, Vechta University, Germany EDWIN VAN TEIJLINGEN is Professor of Maternal and Perinatal Health at Bournemouth University, UK PETER WATTS Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK SIRPA WREDE is Research Coordinator at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN), Swedish School of Social Science, and Adjunct Professor in Sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland

Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: Bringing Gender to the Heart of Health Policy, Practice and Research; E.Kuhlmann & E.Annandale PART I: GENDERING HEALTHCARE AND POLICY Re-visiting Gender Justice in Health and Healthcare; S.Payne & L.Doyal Gender Equality and International Health Policy Planning; S.N.Abdool , C.Garcia-Moreno & A.Amin Gender Equity and Health Sector Reforms in Low and Middle Income Countries; H.Standing Gendering Health Human Resource Policy and Management; E.Kuhlmann , I.Bourgeault , C.Larsen & T.Schofield Gender-sensitive Indicators for Healthcare; V.Lin & H.L'Orange Gender Assessment: European Health Research Policies; I.Klinge Gender and the Medicalization of Healthcare; S.E.Bell & A.E.Figert PART II: THE SOCIAL PATTERNING OF HEALTH BY GENDER Changing Patterns of Morbidity and Mortality; C.E.Bird , M.E.Lang & P.P.Rieker Reproductive Regimes: Governing Gendered Bodies; E.Ettorre & C.Kingdon Coronary Heart Disease: Gendered Public Health Discourses; E.Riska Gender and Mental Health; J.Busfield HIV/AIDS and Gender; L.Gilbert & T.Selikow PART III: EQUITY AND ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE Gender and End-of-life Care; A.Broom Gender and Help-seeking: Towards Gender-comparative Studies; K.Hunt , J.Adamson & P.Galdas Gender Differences in Healthcare Utilization in Later Life; K.Roy & A.Chaudhuri Men's Health and Well-being; T.Schofield The Healthcare Needs of Gay and Lesbian Patients; J.Edwards Mothers and Children: What Does their Health Tell us About Gender?; T.Patel Gender, Health, Care and Place: Living in Rural and Remote Communities; I.L.Bourgeault & R.Sutherns PART IV: GENDERING THE ORGANIZATION AND DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE The New Management of Healthcare: 'Rational' Performance and Gendered Actors; J.Barry , E.Berg & J.Chandler Old Age Care Policies: Gendering Institutional Arrangements Across Countries; V.Burau , H.Theobald & R.H.Blank Primary Prevention and Health Promotion: Towards Gender-sensitive Interventions; P.Kolip Gender and Maternal Healthcare; J.Sandall , C.Benoit , E.van Teijlingen , S.Wrede , E.Declercq & R.de Vries Women's Health Centres: Creating Spaces and Institutional Support; P.Armstrong PART V: THE PROFESSIONS AS CATALYST OF GENDER-SENSITIVE HEALTHCARE Women in the Medical Profession: International Trends; E.Riska Sex, Gender and Health: Developments in Medical Research; T.Lagro-Janssen Gender Mainstreaming at the Cross-roads of Eastern-western Healthcare; L.Cheng , E.Kuhlmann & E.Annandale Nursing: Globalization of a Female-gendered Profession; S.Wrede Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Gender and Marginality; S.Cant & P.Watts Conclusion: Gender and Healthcare: The Future; E.Annandale & E.Kuhlmann