Intersectionality and gender mainstreaming in international health: Using a feminist participatory action research process to analyse voices and debates from the global south and north

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1825-1832

  Tolhurst, Rachel ^a   Leach, Beryl ^b   Price, Janet ^c   Robinson, Jude ^d   Ettore, Elizabeth ^d   Scott Samuel, Alex ^d   Kilonzo, Nduku ^e   Sabuni, Louis P ^f   Robertson, Steve ^g   Kapilashrami, Anuj ^h   Bristow, Katie ^d   Lang, Raymond ⁱ   Romao, Francelina ^j   Theobald, Sally ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Panos   (United Kingdom)

^c Independent Activist and Academic   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e Liverpool VCT   (Kenya)

^f The Leprosy Mission International   (Congo)

^g LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j Ministry of Health of the Government of Mozambique   (Mozambique)

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Author keywords

Africa; Disability; Gender; Global North; Global south; India; International health; Intersectionality; Mainstreaming; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; DISABILITY; FEMINISM; GENDER ISSUE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SEXUALITY;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; FEMINISM; GENDER; GENDER EQUALITY; GENDER MAINSTREAMING; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERSECTIONALITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; POLITICS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; ORGANIZATIONS; SEX FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

AUSTRALIA; CANADA; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; INDIA; KENYA; MOZAMBIQUE;

EID: 84860229821     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.08.025     Document Type: Article

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