Gender-based analysis and health policy: The need to rethink outdated strategies

Women's Health in Canada: Critical Perspectives on Theory and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 143-168

  Hankivsky, Olena ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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