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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Gender and health"”.
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Three Essays on Social Stratification, Gender and Health
This dissertation consists of three essays on health inequalities that arise from interactions between education, gender, and socio-cultural context: gender disparities in the educational gradients in weight status, the gender-specific relationship between mortality of parents and offspring's …
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Understanding gender and health: systematically comparing the health and health experiences of men and women
Gender differences in health are the product of a complex interaction between biology and the social world. Our ascribed sex and how this is interpreted in the culture within which we live (gender) have life-long consequences for our life chances, including our health. For many years the aphorism …
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IMPERILED FEMININITY:RECONFIGURING GENDER IN A CONTEXT OF HEIGHTENED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
… women is implicated in the re-constitution of gender in Chihuahua. Using data collected with a mixed methods, multi-staged protocol, this dissertation investigates how the routine threat of gender violence and the common presence of gender violence in women’s lives impacts the manner in which …
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Masculinities, generations and health: Men's sexual health in Bangladesh
Together, men, masculinities and health comprise an emerging area of research, activism and policy debate. International research on men’s health demonstrates how men’s enactment of masculinity may be linked to their sexual health risk. However, little research to date has explored men’s enactment …
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Work and family roles, gender, socioeconomic status and health : a study of employed Canadian men and women
… from Statistics Canada's National Population Health Survey, the present study investigated the psychosocial determinants of health status among employed Canadian adults. The results are presented in three interrelated papers. The first paper highlights the patterning of health among Canadians …
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Everyday geographies of girls' experiences of physical activity: gender, health and bodies
As part of the UK government focus on health and concern over girls’ drop out from and lack of participation in physical activity (PA) and physical education (PE) policy makers are funding girl-specific school-based programmes of physical activity. Despite the addition of girl-specific and …
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DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH-SEEKING BEHAVIOR IN GHANA
Health can be described as both a product and a process of life, and is necessary for human wellbeing, overall quality of life and productivity. While health is generally desirable, many factors affect health and health outcomes of individuals and populations the world over. Virtually all …
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Gender and work challenges in the informal sector of Uganda : a study of disabled men and women in Mubende and Mityana districts
Compared to disciplines like gender and health, fewer studies have been done on disabled men and women's participation in the informal sector. This may be explained by the fact that for a long time, few disabled men and women in Uganda engaged or participated openly in income generating activities …
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Physical Activity Initiatives: Implications for Physical Activity Promotion
The Exercise is Medicine (EiM) initiative and the National Physical Activity Plan (NPAP) are structured to promote an increase of physical activity at the population level. The primary vision of the EiM initiative is the assessment and prescription of exercise in a primary care clinical setting. …
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Stress Proliferation and Disability over the Life Course
<p>For decades, life course and stress process scholars have documented that negative, stressful experiences have consequences for health across the life course. However, less attention has been paid to hearing impairment, a highly prevalent functional limitation that has significant implications …
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‘Where there is a caring teacher, there is a compassionate school’: poor children's experiences of wellbeing and teacher-child relationships in Mumbai, India
… children's lived experiences of ‘wellbeing’ and 'care' in an Indian school, in order to offer fresh perspectives on child wellbeing in resource-constrained settings and children's own views on teacher support for vulnerable learners. On a small scale, this study aims to help fill three gaps …
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A critical geography of physical activity: Investigating the role of gender in gym environments
… scale of the everyday exercise environment for gendered inequities. Around the world, men are more active than women. Meeting recommended physical activity guidelines significantly reduces risk of a range of chronic conditions and premature death; yet, on the whole, women are missing out on …