HEALTH POLICIES

Gender, Poverty and Health Policies

Gender, Poverty and Health Policies

Introduction

The study relates to health care policy, which particularly focuses gender and poverty. Health policy is a summary of the political and social activities that have an impact on health and quality of life of people and social groups. It exceeds the activities of medical services and includes both intended and unintended public meetings, public, private and voluntary organizations and individuals who have an impact on health. Moreover, gender and poverty are the factors that should be in consideration while developing the health care policy, as it is important and right of both genders and people who cannot afford to have good health care facilities should be provided with health care facilities.

Discussion

It is important to note that if gender is one dimension of organizing social relations that produces inequalities, then the health policy must recognize the existence of these inequalities and answer them with a view to promoting equality in gender. By assigning meanings to sexual difference, categorizing and valuing unlike male and female attributes, the most diverse cultures and societies transform the difference in sexual inequalities that will express themselves in all dimensions of human existence, including modes of illness and death (Baird, 1998).

In relation to gender and poverty, public policy can be defined as the state answers to problems that emerge in society. They are consolidated in sets of guidelines, measures and procedures which explain the political positioning of the problems facing that are considered in the public interest. In the field of social work, public health policies in relation to gender and poverty are designed to function that define the government's response to the health needs of the population, aiming actions promotion, protection and recovery of health at the individual and collective level of gender and poverty issues (Banerjee, Benabou & Mookherjee, 2006).

In addition to this, the process of building and consolidating these health care policies must be understood in its dynamics, given not only by the social changes that result in new generation of health needs. With reference to poverty, gender and health care policy, it is also crucial to note the fact that the materialization policies only happens through the action of several concrete social actors that particularly include poverty and gender equality in health care policies.

Gender and Health Care Policies

Breaking with the idea of ??gender equality in relation to woman, give visibility to the dimension of sexuality as a health issue and power mainstreaming gender as an important issue for public health are the goals of the health policies. For case in point, thinking cancer treatment in a gender perspective is not equal to the action of preventing cervical cancer. It is important to do this work of prevention of cervical cancer, but lung cancer, for example, is completely different between men and women. Men and women relate differently with chronic illnesses that require care, such as cancer (Bird & Rieker, 2008).

Importance of Gender in the Public Health

All human beings are gendered that is male ...