Gender and HIV in South Africa Advancing Women's Health and Capabilities /

This book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity. Importantly, it argues that this urgent problem of justice is changeable. Sprague uses the capabilities approach to bring a theory of health justice, together with multiple sources of evidence, to inves...

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Hlavní autor: Sprague, Courtenay (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Global Research in Gender, Sexuality and Health,
Témata:
Social justice.
Human rights.
Economic development.
Sociology.
Africa-Politics and government.
ISBN:9781137559975
ISSN:2523-7683
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Obsah:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. HIV, Gender and Health for Black South African Women
  • 1. Health Outcomes, Social and Biological Factors Influencing Women's HIV Acquisition in Social Context
  • 2. HIV Care: Prevailing Trends, Barriers and Paradoxes
  • 3. Conceptualising Justice in Health as Opportunities to be Healthy (Capabilities)
  • Part II. Capabilities for Black South African Women: Gender as a Structural Health Determinant
  • 4. Methodological Considerations and Research Methods to Advance Social Justice
  • 5. Capabilities for Women Living with HIV: Linking Health Systems to Social Structure
  • Part III. Moving from Evidence to Action
  • 6. Gender-Transformative Structural Interventions to Advance South African Women's Capabilities
  • 7. Assessing Equity in Health and Women's Opportunities to be Healthy
  • Concluding Reflections: From Research to Policy and Practice.

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