Engendering international health : the challenge of equity / edited by Gita Sen, Asha George, and Piroska Ostlin.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002], ©2002.

xii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographgical references (p. [373]-438) and index.

Engendering health equity: a review of research and policy / Gita Sen, Asha George, and Piroska Östlin -- Communicable diseases: outstanding commitments to gender and poverty / Pamela Hartigan, Janet Price, and Rachel Tolhurst -- Examining work and its effects on health / Piroska Östlin -- Reproductive health: conceptual mapping and evidence / Jane Cottingham and Cynthia Myntti -- Violence against women: consolidating a public health agenda / Claudia García-Moreno -- Mental health: gender bias, social position, and depression / Jill Astbury -- Reorienting public health: exploring differentials in hip fracture / Rachel Snow -- Health and environment: moving beyond conventional paradigms / Jacqueline Sims and Maureen Butter -- Social discrimination and health: gender, race, and class in the United States / Nancy Breen -- Policy environments: macroeconomics, programming, and participation / Maggie Bangser -- Class, gender, and health equity: lessons from liberalizing India / Gita Sen, Aditi Iyer, and Asha George -- Measuring up: gender, burden of disease, and priority setting / Kara Hanson -- Frameworks for understanding health sector reform / Hilary Standing.