Women's Empowerment and Global Health: A Twenty-First-Century Agenda
Shari Dworkin, "Women's Empowerment and Global Health: A Twenty-First-Century Agenda"
English | ISBN: 0520272889 | 2016 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0520272889 | 2016 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What is women’s empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women’s health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health Institute’s (UCGHI) Center of Expertise (COE) on Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment aimed to answer with this book. Since 2009 the COE has brought together a multidisciplinary network of experts from across the University of California (UC) campuses and departments, along with their global partners, to advance research and education on what has become a capstone theme in the global health and development agenda: women’s and girls’ empowerment and health. Women’s Empowerment and Global Health demonstrates the outcomes of COE's commitment to advance pedagogy and present the work of thought leaders in this domain.
Despite the rise of a human rights–based approach to health and increasing awareness of the synergies between women’s health and empowerment, a lack of consensus remains as to how to operationalize empowerment in ways that improve health.
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