Gender and Health: Awareness, Analysis and Action

Gender and Health: Awareness, Analysis and Action
PURPOSE
This "Virtual Course Gender and Health: Awareness, Analysis and Action" provides basic skills on gender mainstreaming in health. The elearning builds familiarity with how gender operates as a determinant of health, guides participants through basic steps of applying gender responsive planning to their work, and introduces the basic skills to integrate gender concerns into public health practice.
OBJECTIVES
- Increase knowledge and awareness of how outcomes in health are related to sex, gender norms, roles, relations and other determinants of health.
- Initiate the building of core analytical skills for gender analysis and its application in a public health context.
- Understand how the health sector can use gender analysis tools to effectively reduce health inequities.