title: Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health Programs: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals.
abstract: Evidence increasingly shows that poverty and gender inequalities are important determinants of health and influence the opportunity for timely and appropriate health care. These findings suggest that health professionals need to have a sound understanding of health inequalities and their causes, as well as of how they can be addressed. However, through surveys to health ministries and educational institutions in 2001, the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific found that awareness of, and capacity to respond to, poverty and gender concerns in health was weak. In response, the Regional Office initiated a project to develop materials to support the integration of poverty and gender concerns into health professional education curricula. The multimodule publication, Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health Programmes: A Sourcebook for Health Professionals, supports evidence-based and participatory learning. The experience to date suggests that the publication might be meeting a long-felt need for such a response.
authors.affiliation: Regional Office for the Western Pacific, World Health Organization, Manila, The Philippines.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Coll-Black
authors.forename: Anjana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhushan
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fritsch
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D046688:Child Mortality; D003479:Curriculum; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D006285:Health Planning; D006291:Health Policy; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008297:Male; D020380:Needs Assessment; D044349:Oceania; D011203:Poverty / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D012723:Sex; D013664:Teaching Materials; D014944:World Health Organization