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Throughout the world, women suffer a greater burden of ill-health than men and are further disadvantaged by inequality of access to health care. During the last three decades, efforts to address this discrimination have formed part of the overall movement to achieve equality for women. Under the broad approach of ‘Women in Development’, programmes have successively emphasised women's rights to welfare, equity and the alleviation of poverty, the contributions that women can make to development and have called for their empowerment and the integration of their concerns into mainstream activities in all sectors.
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This course will provide an introductory framework for understanding the influence of gender on mental and physical health across a range of different communities. It will provide an overview of gender differences in patterns of health and illness as well as a set of concepts for explaining them. The relationship between sex, gender and health will be explored as will their links with other social and economic factors such as race and class.
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