scholarly journals Track 10: Workshop: Public health strategies for women's health in the city of Vienna: aims, measures, results

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 56-58
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Public Health Strategies ◽  
The City

Women's Health in Developing Countries: Beyond an Investment?

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Mohindra ◽  
Béatrice Nikiéma
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
International Development ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
International Programs ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Public Health Strategies

Most international programs and policies devised to improve women's health in developing countries have been shaped by powerful agencies and development ideologies, including the tendency to view women solely through the lens of instrumentalism (i.e., as a means to an end). In a literature review, the authors followed the trail of instrumentalism by reviewing the different approaches and paradigms that have guided international development initiatives over the past 50 years. The analysis focuses on three key approaches to international development: the economic development, public health, and women-gender approaches. The findings indicate that progressive changes have adopted a more inclusive development perspective that is potentially beneficial to women's health. On the other hand, most paradigms have largely viewed improving women's lives in general, and their health in particular, as an investment or a means to development rather than an end in itself. Public health strategies did not escape the instrumentalism entrenched in the broader development paradigms. Although there was an opportunity for progress in the 1990s with the emergence of the human development and human rights paradigms and critical advances in Cairo and Beijing promoting women's agency, the current Millennium Development Goals project seems to have relapsed into instrumentalism.

scholarly journals Understanding the Spatial-Related Abstraction of Public Health Impact Goals and Measures: Illustrated by the Example of the Austrian Action Plan on Women’s Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 773
Author(s):  
Tatjana Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Policy Paper ◽  
High Degree

The influence of spatial aspects on people’s health is internationally proven by a wealth of empirical findings. Nevertheless, questions concerning public health still tend to be negotiated among social and health scientists. This was different in the elaboration of the Austrian Action Plan on Women’s Health (AAPWH). On the example of the target group of older women, it is shown whether and to what extent the inclusion of the spatial planning perspective in the discussion of impact goals and measures is reflected in the respective inter-ministerial policy paper. The retrospective analysis on the basis of a document analysis of the AAPWH and qualitative interviews with public health experts who were also invited to join, or rather were part of, the expert group, brings to light the following key reasons for the high degree of spatial-related abstraction of the content of this strategic health policy paper: the requirement for general formulations, the lack of public and political awareness for the different living situations in different spatial archetypes, and the lack of external perception of spatial planning as a key discipline with regard to the creation of equivalent living conditions. Nonetheless, this research has promoted the external perception of spatial planning as a relevant discipline in public health issues in Austria. Furthermore, first thematic starting points for an in-depth interdisciplinary dialogue were identified.

scholarly journals Exploring the Linkages between Substance Use, Natural Disasters, Pandemics, and Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Rapid Review in the Context of COVID-19

Sexes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-522
Author(s):  
Andreea C. Brabete ◽  
Lindsay Wolfson ◽  
Julie Stinson ◽  
Nancy Poole ◽  
Sarah Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women

Rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) and substance use have risen during the COVID-19 pandemic, with potentially enduring effects on women’s health. A rapid review was conducted on IPV and women’s substance use in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapid review explored two separate research questions with a view to integrate the literature related to: (1) containment, social isolation, pandemics, disasters, lockdowns, and IPV; and (2) the relationships between substance use and IPV. Two different searches for each question were conducted between May and October 2020 and n = 47 articles were included. Women experience multiple physical and mental health consequences related to IPV that can be exacerbated by public health crises such as pandemics and disasters. Perpetrators may use these events as a tactic to threaten, isolate, or use coercive control. Similar tactics are reported in the complex relationship between IPV and substance use, where substance use can accompany IPV and/or be used as a coping mechanism for survivors. The findings highlight long standing women’s health concerns made further visible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional research is needed to identify actions required to reduce gender inequities and harms associated with IPV and substance use, and to adequately tailor and prepare effective responses in the context of future public health crises.

The Evolution of a National Public Health Initiative on Diabetes and Women's Health: A Model Process

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 839-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Alfaro-Correa Sc.D., M.A. ◽  
Gloria Beckles ◽  
Christopher Benjamin ◽  
Barbara Bowman ◽  
Yvonne Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Health Initiative ◽  
Public Health Initiative ◽  
National Public Health

Only Women Bleed: Menstruation, Women and Public Health

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Lynn Holt
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Current Medical ◽  
Biological Entity ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Scientific Medicine ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Significant Life

Menarche for women is a significant life event. How a women perceives herself throughout her life can be influenced by her experience and attitude to this event. Menstruation has been successfully pathologised by scientific medicine, and the notion of women as biologically defective has contributed to gender inequalities. A feminist framework for exploring the current medical ideology of women as a biological entity will be addressed by this paper, and the consequences this may have for women's health and public health practise will be addressed.

scholarly journals Imprisonment and women's health: concerns about gender sensitivity, human rights and public health

2011 ◽  
Vol 89 (9) ◽  
pp. 689-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda van den Bergh ◽  
Alex Gatherer ◽  
Andrew Fraser ◽  
Lars Moller
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Health Concerns
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