The impact of health policies and health sector reform on the readiness of health systems to respond to women’s health needs, with special focus on reproductive health, reproductive rights and HIV/AIDS

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dc.contributor.authorNeema, Stella
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-29T13:14:28Z
dc.date.available2022-04-29T13:14:28Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines how health policies and health reforms that have been implemented have impacted on the health and well-being of women, with emphasis on reproductive health, rights and HIV/AIDS. It tries to consider how health policies and reforms have tried to improve health systems to respond to health needs of women. Women’s health has been the focus of both international and national state policies. However, many current health policies have tended to regard sexual and reproductive health and rights of women as insignificant. Further health sector reforms that have been implemented by many countries have tended to focus on their implications for the poor, with a few policy makers explicitly taking gender issues into consideration. What needs to be understood is whether the health sector reforms are reducing gender inequality. Some evidence suggests that reforms can produce negative impacts on maternal health service provision and use as changes can strain working relationships or overload health workers (MacIntyre and Klugman, 2003). Yet in other settings, indicators such as maternal mortality rates, decreased as a result of the reforms (Parkhurst et al, 2004). It has been observed that Health sector reforms are complex processes affecting the local systems in which individuals work – shifting incentive structures, regulatory mechanisms, and paths of accountability. They can also change the macro environment of health systems, reorganizing staff numbers and placements, and creating new structures and hierarchies within the health sector (Parkhurst et al 2004).en_US
dc.identifier.citationNeema, S. (2005, November). The impact of health policies and health sector reform on the readiness of health systems to respond to women's health needs, with special focus on reproductive health, reproductive rights and HIV/AIDS. In UN Division for Advancement of Women (DAW) Experts Group Meeting.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.514.4055&rep=rep1&type=pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/2969
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUnited Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) Expert Group Meetingen_US
dc.subjectHealth policiesen_US
dc.subjectHealth sectoren_US
dc.subjectHealth systemsen_US
dc.subjectWomen’s health needsen_US
dc.subjectReproductive healthen_US
dc.subjectHIV/AIDSen_US
dc.titleThe impact of health policies and health sector reform on the readiness of health systems to respond to women’s health needs, with special focus on reproductive health, reproductive rights and HIV/AIDSen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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