Questioning gender norms with men to improve health outcomes: Evidence of impact

Global Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 539-553

  Barker, G ^a   Ricardo, C ^b   Nascimento, M ^b   Olukoya, A ^c   Santos, C ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN   (United States)

^b Instituto Promundo an NGO based in Rio de Janeiro   (Brazil)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatherhood; Gender; Health; Masculinity; Sexual health; Violence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH; EVALUATION; FATHER; HEALTH CARE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MASCULINITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL HEALTH; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FATHERS; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPING; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955262022     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441690902942464     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Barker, G., 2000. What about boys? A review and analysis of international literature on the health and developmental needs of adolescent boys. Geneva: WHO.
2. Barker, G. and Ricardo, C., 2005. Young men and the construction of masculinity in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for HIV/AIDS, conflict and violence. Social Development Papers. Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction. Paper No. 26, June 2005. Washington, DC: World Bank.
3. Bruce, J., 2006. A note on the social and economic development and reproductive health of vulnerable adolescent girls. United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) in collaboration with UNICEF. Expert Group Meeting: elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. Florence, Italy, 25 28 September 2006.
4. Campbell, C.A., 1995. Male gender roles and sexuality: implications for women's AIDS risk and prevention. Social Science & Medicine, 41 (2), 197-210.
5. Cohen, S.I. and Burger, M., 2000. Partnering: a new approach to sexual and reproductive health. Technical paper no. 3. New York: UNFPA.
6. Connell, R., 1987. Gender and power. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
7. Courtenay, W.H., 1998. Better to die than cry? A longitudinal and constructionist study of masculinity and the health risk of young American men. Dissertation Abstracts International, 59 (08A). (Publication number 9902042).
8. Elwy, A.R., Hart, G., Hawkes, S., and Petticrew, M., 2002. Effectiveness of interventions to prevent STI/HIV in heterosexual men: a systematic review. Archives of Internal Medicine, 162, 1818-1830.
9. Gupta, G.R., Whelan, D., and Allendorf, K., 2003. Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes: review paper for expert consultation. Geneva: WHO. Available from: http://www.who.int/gender/hiv_aids/en/Integrating%5B258KB%5D.pdf [Accessed 12 October 2007].
10. Kaufman, M., 1993. Cracking the armour: power, pain and the lives of men. Toronto, ON: Viking.
11. Kimmel, M., 2000. The gendered society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
12. Kimmel, M.S. and Messner, M.A., 1989. Men's lives. New York: Macmillan.
13. Marsiglio, W., 1988. Adolescent male sexuality and heterosexual masculinity: a conceptual model and review. Journal of Adolescent Research, 3 (3-4), 285-303.
14. Marston, C. and King, E., 2006. Factors that shape young people's sexual behaviour: a systematic review. The Lancet, 368, 1581-1586.
15. Pleck, J.H., 1995. The gender role strain paradigm: an update. In: R.F. Levant and W.S. Pollack, eds. A new psychology of men. New York: Basic Books, 11-32.
16. Pulerwitz, J. and Barker, G., 2008. Measuring attitudes toward gender norms among young men in Brazil: development and psychometric evaluation of the GEM scale. Men and Masculinities, 10, 322-338.
17. Rivers, K. and Aggleton, P., 1998. Men and the HIV epidemic, gender and the HIV epidemic, HIV and development programme. Geneva: United Nations Development Programme.
18. Rothman, E., Butchart, A., and Cerdá, M., 2003. Intervening with perpetrators of intimate partner violence: a global perspective. Geneva: WHO. Available from: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/publications/violence/intervening/en/index.html [Accessed 12 October 2007].
19. Sallis, J.F. and Owen, N., 2002. Ecological models of health behaviour. In: K. Glanz, B.K. Rimer and F.M. Lewis, eds. Heath behaviour and health education: theory, research and practice. 4th ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 462-484.
20. Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2007. South Africa country report: progress on commitments made at the 2004 United Nations Commission on the status of women on implementing recommendations aimed at involving men and boys in achieving gender equality. Johannesburg: Sonke Gender Justice Network.
21. Sternberg, P. and Hubley, J., 2004. Evaluating men's involvement as a strategy in sexual and reproductive health promotion. Health Promotion International, 19, 389-396.
22. Valdimarsdóttir, F., 2006. Nordic experiences with parental leave and its impact on equality between women and men. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers.
23. Way, N., 1998. Everyday courage: the stories and lives of urban teenagers. New York: New York University Press.