Gender norms and health: insights from global survey data

Despite global commitments to achieving gender equality and improving health and wellbeing for all, quantitative data and methods to precisely estimate the effect of gender norms on health inequities are underdeveloped. Nonetheless, existing global, national, and subnational data provide some key op...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) Jg. 393; H. 10189; S. 2455 - 2468
Hauptverfasser: Weber, Ann M, Cislaghi, Beniamino, Meausoone, Valerie, Abdalla, Safa, Mejía-Guevara, Iván, Loftus, Pooja, Hallgren, Emma, Seff, Ilana, Stark, Lindsay, Victora, Cesar G, Buffarini, Romina, Barros, Aluísio J D, Domingue, Benjamin W, Bhushan, Devika, Gupta, Ribhav, Nagata, Jason M, Shakya, Holly B, Richter, Linda M, Norris, Shane A, Ngo, Thoai D, Chae, Sophia, Haberland, Nicole, McCarthy, Katharine, Cullen, Mark R, Darmstadt, Gary L, Greene, Margaret Eleanor, Hawkes, Sarah, Heise, Lori, Henry, Sarah, Heymann, Jody, Klugman, Jeni, Levine, Ruth, Raj, Anita, Rao Gupta, Geeta
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: England Elsevier Ltd 15.06.2019
Elsevier Limited
Schlagworte:
Children & youth
Data collection
Datasets
Delivery of Health Care
Domains
Equality
Female
Gender equity
Gender Identity
Girls
Health
Health disparities
Health policy
Humans
Male
Men
Norms
Parents
Polls & surveys
Qualitative research
Social factors
Social Norms
Womens health
United Arab Emirates
ISSN:0140-6736, 1474-547X, 1474-547X
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Zusammenfassung:Despite global commitments to achieving gender equality and improving health and wellbeing for all, quantitative data and methods to precisely estimate the effect of gender norms on health inequities are underdeveloped. Nonetheless, existing global, national, and subnational data provide some key opportunities for testing associations between gender norms and health. Using innovative approaches to analysing proxies for gender norms, we generated evidence that gender norms impact the health of women and men across life stages, health sectors, and world regions. Six case studies showed that: (1) gender norms are complex and can intersect with other social factors to impact health over the life course; (2) early gender-normative influences by parents and peers can have multiple and differing health consequences for girls and boys; (3) non-conformity with, and transgression of, gender norms can be harmful to health, particularly when they trigger negative sanctions; and (4) the impact of gender norms on health can be context-specific, demanding care when designing effective gender-transformative health policies and programmes. Limitations of survey-based data are described that resulted in missed opportunities for investigating certain populations and domains. Recommendations for optimising and advancing research on the health impacts of gender norms are made.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30765-2