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Gender-Transformative Health Promotion, Weekly Mind Map Activity-week…
Gender-Transformative Health Promotion
Violence against women is a gendered issue because there are distinct patterns in which women are more likely to be victimized and men are more likely to be the perpetrators.
It is important to recognize that violence against women is not solely a personal problem but an issue of human rights and social justice.
Various forms of violence such as domestic violence, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and dating violence, etc.
The root causes of violence against women are gender inequality and discrimination.
Gender inequality shaped by social norms, practices, and structures at various levels of society.
A gender-transformative health promotion approach seeks to shift gender norms and relations in order to enhance gender equity.
It is one end of a continuum of action on gender and health, moving from gender-unequal approaches to gender-sensitive approaches and finally to gender-transformative approaches that goes beyond simply accommodating or sensitizing to gender differences.
Addressing the root causes of gender inequality essential for promoting health and preventing violence against women.
Challenging biased and harmful norms that limit and disempower women and girls while fostering stifling notions of masculinity.
There are potential opportunities for health promotion action on violence against women in Canada and Gender-Transformative Health Promotion initiatives can contribute to reducing and preventing violence against women.
Canada is a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW), which recognizes violence against women as a human rights violation.
The federal government has made policy commitments to address violence against women, including a strategy on gender-based violence and funding for the Family Violence Initiative.
In Canada, there are initiatives that involve men and boys as change agents to reduce violence against women and girls.
For example, the Ending Violence Association of BC established the Be More than a Bystander campaign in partnership with the BC Lions football club, aiming to raise awareness of violence against women and encourage men to be allies in preventing violence.
The two-year National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, established in 2016 in Canada, addresses the disproportionate vulnerability of Indigenous women and girls to violence.
This initiative aims to explore the conditions that foster violence and work towards prevention.
The Gender-Transformative Framework guides researchers, policymakers and developers to understand gender inequity's effect on health and social outcomes as it promotes reflection on gender's health impact and the creation of interventions to lessen gender inequity and enhance health.
Principles such as fostering empowerment, pursuing equity, and being evidence-based are important in gender-transformative health promotion.
Interventions should be women-centered, trauma-informed, and embrace harm reduction approaches.
The four guiding principles for gender-transformative health promotion can be applied to health promotion efforts across contexts and outcomes.
Gender-Transformative Health Promotion must address gender norms as part of its work to impact on health outcomes.
Aim to replace negative gender norms with positive alternative norms.
Gender-Transformative Health Promotion should move away from a sole focus on individual-level Change to also engage explicitly with structural and social determinants of health.
Empower individuals and communities to address these determinants in order to achieve health equity.
Gender-Transformative Health Promotion should aim to influence multiple interrelated health outcomes by addressing underlying gender-related determinants.
Focus on addressing the root causes of health disparities related to gender.
Gender-Transformative Health Promotion requires complexity-informed design, implementation, and evaluation strategies.
Consider the complexity of social norms and personal beliefs, and use evaluation methods that can detect shifts in these norms and beliefs.
Weekly Mind Map Activity-week eight