Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context [electronic resource] /
Gideon, J.author.
Using a political economy of health, Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context demonstrates how the development of health systems in Latin America was closely linked to men's participation in formal labor. This established an inherent male bias that continues to shape health services today. While economic liberalization has created new jobs that have been taken up mainly by women, these jobs fail to offer the same health entitlements. Author Jasmine Gideon explores the resultant tensions and gender inequalities, which have been further exacerbated in the context of health care commercialization.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Latin American Social Policy: Challenging Gender Inequalities?; Chapter 2 A Gendered Political Economy of Health; Chapter 3 The Development of Gendered Health Systems; Chapter 4 Engendering Governance in Health?; Chapter 5 Gender, the Changing Nature of Work and Health; Chapter 6 Gender, Migrant Labor, and Health; Chapter 7 Concluding Comments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Using a political economy of health, Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context demonstrates how the development of health systems in Latin America was closely linked to men's participation in formal labor. This established an inherent male bias that continues to shape health services today. While economic liberalization has created new jobs that have been taken up mainly by women, these jobs fail to offer the same health entitlements. Author Jasmine Gideon explores the resultant tensions and gender inequalities, which have been further exacerbated in the context of health care commercialization.
Social policy.
Latin America—Politics and government.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Political science.
Social service.
Sociology.
Social Policy.
Latin American Politics.
Latin American Culture.
Political Science.
Social Work and Community Development.
Sociology, general.