The importance of gender analysis in research for health systems strengthening

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dc.contributor.authorTheobald, Sally
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Rosemary
dc.contributor.authorHawkins, Kate
dc.contributor.authorSsali, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorGeorge, Asha
dc.contributor.authorMolyneux, Sassy
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-12T17:19:26Z
dc.date.available2021-12-12T17:19:26Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis editorial discusses a collection of papers examining gender across a range of health policy and systems contexts, from access to services, governance, health financing, and human resources for health. The papers interrogate differing health issues and core health systems functions using a gender lens. Together they produce new knowledge on the multiple impacts of gender on health experiences and demonstrate the importance of gender analyses and gender sensitive interventions for promoting well-being and health systems strengthening. The findings from these papers collectively show how gender intersects with other axes of inequity within specific contexts to shape experiences of health and health seeking within households, communities and health systems; illustrate how gender power relations affect access to important resources; and demonstrate that gender norms, poverty and patriarchy interplay to limit women’s choices and chances both within household interactions and within the health sector. Health systems researchers have a responsibility to promote the incorporation of gender analyses into their studies in order to inform more strategic, effective and equitable health systems interventions, programmes, and policies. Responding to gender inequitable systems, institutions, and services in this sector requires an ‘all hands-on deck’ approach. We cannot claim to take a ‘people-centred approach’ to health systems if the status quo continues.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTheobald, S., Morgan, R., Hawkins, K., Ssali, S., George, A., & Molyneux, S. (2017). The importance of gender analysis in research for health systems strengthening. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czx163en_US
dc.identifier.other10.1093/heapol/czx163
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/370
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectHealth systemsen_US
dc.subjectHealth systems researchen_US
dc.subjectHuman resourcesen_US
dc.subjectHealth financingen_US
dc.subjectHealth servicesen_US
dc.subjectGovernanceen_US
dc.subjectEquityen_US
dc.subjectHealth inequalitiesen_US
dc.titleThe importance of gender analysis in research for health systems strengtheningen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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