Gender Equity in Health: The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action

This volume brings together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines to examine three areas: health disparities and inequity due to gender, the specific problems women face in meeting the highest attainable standards of health, and the policies and actions that can address them.

Author: Gita Sen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/13/2009
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.50w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780415801904

About the Author

Gita Sen is Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India, and Adjunct Professor of Population and International Health at the Faculty of Public Health, Harvard University.

Piroska Östlin is a public health scientist with a Ph.D. in Medical Science from the University of Uppsala in Sweden. She is Associate Professor of public health at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.