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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Sprague, Courtenay (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Global Research in Gender, Sexuality and Health,
• Θέματα: Social justice.; Human rights.; Economic development.; Sociology.; Africa-Politics and government.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Development and Health.; Gender Studies.; African Politics.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.