Gender mainstreaming and health policy

Rachel Hammersley-Mather

Chapter 22 in Research Handbook on Gender Mainstreaming, 2026, pp 287-298 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Thirty years after the Beijing Declaration, the gendered implications of health policy continue to ripple across all areas of the sector; from frontline health workers to health leadership, and ultimately the health and well-being of individuals. While the backdrop of HIV/AIDS provided context to the gendered nature of health inequities at the Beijing Declaration, public health responses to recent infectious disease outbreaks, including Zika, the COVID-19 pandemic and MPox, highlighted and accentuated the persistence of inequalities under the dominant paradigm of global health security. COVID-19 spotlighted the field epidemiology community and opportunities to gender mainstream related programs. The continued implementation of the Global Gag Rule by American Republican governments, most recently by Trump, highlights the precarity of access to sexual and reproductive health rights in much of the Global South. The disproportionate effects such policies have on women ultimately affect the health and development of communities around the world.

Keywords: Gender; Women; Gender Mainstreaming; Health; Feminist Global Health Security; Health Equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035353415
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