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Gender and Health Promotion - Coggle Diagram
Gender and Health Promotion
Violence against women (VAW) is inherently gendered, rooted in harmful social norms and structures that disproportionately victimize women.
1.1. Emerges through the interaction of multiple factors
Genetic endowment
Developmental experience
Household structures
Relationship dynamics
1.2. Leads to distinct patterns of VAW
Intimate partner violence
Family violence
Non-partner sexual violence
1.3. Difficult to determine scope
Various terms used to discuss
Cannot always compare data sources
Stigma/risk with disclosure
Intersectionality plays a crucial role in understanding variations in women's vulnerability to violence, as factors can intersect to increase or decrease the likelihood of victimization, which has direct effects on health.
2.1. Gender is a determinant of health
Gender-specific health risks
Gender-specific access to resources
2.2. Different dimensions of social life can intersect with each other and gender
Age
Disability
Income
Ethnicity/race
Sexual orientation
2.3. Intersectionality can be a useful tool at both the micro and macro level
Effects of structural inequities on individuals' health
How power systems maintain these inequities
Traditional health promotion efforts have often overlooked gender inequities by adopting gender-blind strategies, leading to misallocated resources and weakened outcomes in addressing health disparities.
3.1. Prescribes unrealistic health behaviours
Strenuous physical activity interventions based on male-centered sports
Encourage conformity to societal expectations of appearance
3.2. Relies on inappropriate evidence
Research largely conducted on men
Evidence often neglects influence of gender
3.3. Focuses on stereotypes
Attractiveness is important to all women
Overemphasize women’s reproductive role
Women smoke to control appetite/manage weight
Gender-transformative health promotion seeks to challenge rigid gender norms and power imbalances to promote positive health and social outcomes that contribute to gender equity.
4.1. Addresses the underlying and structural causes of violence against women
Gender inequality
Discrimination
4.2. Empower women to reach their health potential
Increase self-determination
Utilize a strengths-based approach
4.3. Ensures resources are appropriate
Women-centered
Trauma-informed
Harm-reducing
Effective gender-transformative health promotion emphasizes the importance of engaging with various structural and social determinants of health and accounts for the complexity of these systems.
5.1. Engage multi-level stakeholders
Economic
Political
Social
5.2. Recognize interconnectedness of gender-related determinants with broader factors
Gender wage gap
Participation of women in leadership
Investment in research funding women-specific health concerns
Safe housing
5.3. Implement complexity-informed strategies
Systems-level thinking
Consider gender norms as barriers
Acknowledge contextual-dependency