Women and Health: Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective Into the Health Sector : Report of the Expert Group Meeting 28 September - 2 October 1998, Tunis (Tunisia)UN, 1999 - 64 pages The report looks particularly at the impact of gender on occupational and environmental health; sexual and reproductive health; tuberculosis, malaria and other disease control programmes, including HIV and AIDS; and mental health. Special attention is also paid to gender and health reform and financing; quality of care; partnerships for health and capacity building and the importance of education for girls, adolescent girls and women. This forms the background for the outline of a framework for designing national health policies with an integrated gender perspective, which the report details. |
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SUMMARY OF DEBATE | |
introducing a genderbased analysis | |
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