RinGs , 2016 Sarah Ssali (Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Makarere in Uganda) gender and poverty in post-conflict countries and its effects on health outcomes. This video is part of the Building Back Better series on health systems in post-conflict settings and gender equity. It draws on her work in Northern Uganda. Multimedia | Cross-cutting
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RinGs , 2016 Asha George, Sarah Ssali, Rosemary Morgan and Sally Theobald talk you through some of the pressing issues in gender and health systems. Multimedia | Cross-cutting
This guide provides an overview of how you can incorporate gender analysis into your health systems research, including: (1) disaggregating your data by sex; (2) organizing your thinking using frameworks; and (3) using gender analysis questions. It also discusses how you can incorporate gender into the overall research process. Many donors now require that health systems […]
Gender analysis is an important component for health systems research. It reveals how power relations create inequalities in health system needs, experiences, and outcomes among women, men, and people of other genders. Incorporating gender analysis into existing programmes can be challenging. Researchers: Struggle to understanding the relevance of gender analysis Assume that a focus on women […]
This editorial discusses a collection of papers examining gender across a range of health policy and systems contexts, from access to services, governance, health financing, and human resources for health. The papers interrogate differing health issues and core health systems functions using a gender lens. Together they produce new knowledge on the multiple impacts of […]
In a webinar in 2015 on health financing and gender, the question was raised why we need to focus on gender, given that a well-functioning system moving towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) will automatically be equitable and gender balanced. This article provides a reflection on this question from a panel of health financing and gender […]
This Reader brings together case studies from the small grants programme. These studies explore some of the core spheres of health systems research: care-seeking; financing and contracting; governance; human resources; and service delivery with a gender lens. Each case study in this Reader demonstrates the importance of using a gender analysis in health systems research. This analysis enabled […]
Adaptive and adequately resourced health systems are necessary to achieve good health outcomes in post-conflict settings, however domains beyond the health system are also critical to ensure broader wellbeing. This paper focuses on the importance of psychosocial support services for adolescent girls in fragile contexts. Its starting point is that adolescence is a pivotal time […]
This commentary accompanies a paper by Tamblyn and colleagues that presents evidence from a cross-sectional study that shows the presence of gender bias in the grant peer review process in Canadian health research funding. Notably, female applicants with past grant success rates equivalent to male applicants were given lower application scores by reviewers, and male […]
This brief explores how the concept and theory of intersectionality has impacted the work within Future Health Systems, one of four Research Project Consortia within the RinGs partnership. Intersectional analysis in health systems research is in its infancy. Future Health Systems’ and RinGs’ work in this area has been pioneering, simultaneously building capacity to understand the thinking that underpins this theory whilst […]
