Equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de la salud de América Latina y el Caribe
Gender equity is increasingly being acknowledged as an essential aspect of sustainable development and more specifically, of health development. The Pan American Health Organization's Program for Women, Health, and Development has been piloting for a year now a project known as Equidad de géner...
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doaj-342ad4053def473090616100bfb8a7fb2020-11-25T00:12:37ZengPan American Health OrganizationRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública1020-49892002-06-01115-643543810.1590/s1020-49892002000500020S1020-49892002000500020Equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de la salud de América Latina y el CaribeElsa Gómez Gómez0Organización Panamericana de la SaludGender equity is increasingly being acknowledged as an essential aspect of sustainable development and more specifically, of health development. The Pan American Health Organization's Program for Women, Health, and Development has been piloting for a year now a project known as Equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de salud, whose objective is to promote gender equity in the health sector reform efforts in the Region. The first stage of the project is being conducted in Chile and Peru, along with some activities throughout the Region. The core of the project is the production and use of information as a tool for introducing changes geared toward achieving greater gender equity in health, particularly in connection with male-female disparities that are unnecessary, avoidable, and unfair in health status, access to health care, and participation in decision-making within the health system. We expect that in three years the project will have brought about changes in the production of information and knowledge, advocacy, and information dissemination, as well as in the development, appropriation, and identification of intersectoral mechanisms that will make it possible for key figures in government and civil society to work together in setting and surveying policy on gender equity in health.http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892002000500020&lng=en&tlng=enreforma del sector de la saludpolíticas de saludequidadgénero |
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Elsa Gómez Gómez Equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de la salud de América Latina y el Caribe Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública reforma del sector de la salud políticas de salud equidad género |
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Equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de la salud de América Latina y el Caribe |
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Equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de la salud de América Latina y el Caribe |
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Equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de la salud de América Latina y el Caribe |
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Equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de la salud de América Latina y el Caribe |
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Equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de la salud de América Latina y el Caribe |
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equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de la salud de américa latina y el caribe |
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Pan American Health Organization |
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública |
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Gender equity is increasingly being acknowledged as an essential aspect of sustainable development and more specifically, of health development. The Pan American Health Organization's Program for Women, Health, and Development has been piloting for a year now a project known as Equidad de género en las políticas de reforma del sector de salud, whose objective is to promote gender equity in the health sector reform efforts in the Region. The first stage of the project is being conducted in Chile and Peru, along with some activities throughout the Region. The core of the project is the production and use of information as a tool for introducing changes geared toward achieving greater gender equity in health, particularly in connection with male-female disparities that are unnecessary, avoidable, and unfair in health status, access to health care, and participation in decision-making within the health system. We expect that in three years the project will have brought about changes in the production of information and knowledge, advocacy, and information dissemination, as well as in the development, appropriation, and identification of intersectoral mechanisms that will make it possible for key figures in government and civil society to work together in setting and surveying policy on gender equity in health. |
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reforma del sector de la salud políticas de salud equidad género |
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