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Shared research priorities for engaging men and boys in sexual and reproductive health and rights in accountable ways. 1 May 2024 09:30 – 11:00 ET. Integrating the Social Determinants of Health into Health Workforce Education and Training: What Relevance for Planetary Health and Climate Action? 8 December 2023 13:00 – 14:00 UTC Time.
Sex and gender interact in complex ways to affect health outcomes. Sex can affect disease risk, progression and outcomes through genetic (e.g. function of X and Y chromosomes), cellular and physiological, including hormonal, pathways. These pathways can produce differences in susceptibility to disease, progression of disease, treatment and ...
Gender. Gender refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes norms, behaviours and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with others. As a social construct, gender varies from society to society and can change over time.
ICD-11 has redefined gender identity-related health, replacing outdated diagnostic categories like ICD-10’s “transsexualism” and “gender identity disorder of children” with “ gender incongruence of adolescence and adulthood ” and “ gender incongruence of childhood ” respectively. Gender incongruence has been moved out of the ...
Overview. The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life" (1).
The Gender mainstreaming for health managers: a practical approach manual addresses how gender norms, roles and relations affect health-related behaviours and outcomes as well as health sector responses. At the same time, it recognizes that gender inequality is a cross-cutting determinant of health that operates in conjunction with other forms of discrimination based on factors such as age ...
The working definition of sexuality is: “…a central aspect of being human throughout life encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction. Sexuality is experienced and expressed in thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviours, practices, roles and ...
Our work is articulated around three areas: 1) Health inequities are systematically identified, monitored and addressed; 2) Gender-specific and gender-transformative approaches to health are implemented at scale; and 3) The human right to health and health-related human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled. The department leverages and ...
The Gender, Equity and Human Rights (GER) Team catalyses, supports and coordinates the mainstreaming of gender, equity and human rights approaches in health at all levels of WHO in coordination with the Regional Offices. Activities and publications: Reviewing national health programmes to leave no one behind.
WHO's Departments of Gender, Rights and Equity - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (GRE-DEI), Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes (HHS), and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH) are developing a Guideline on the health of trans and gender diverse people.