a / Shelly Grabe, Anjali Dutt, and Carlos Arenas -- Conclusions : a twenty-first-century agenda for women's empowerment and health / Shari L. Dworkin and Lara Stemple. culinities-based HIV prevention and antiviolence program in Limpopo and Eastern Cape, South Africa / Shari L. Dworkin ... [et al.]-- Structural (legal/policy, economic) interventions as tools of empowerment. Introduction / Shelly Grabe ... [et al.] ; Empowering adolescent girls and women for improved sexual health in Zimbabwe : lessons learned from a combined livelihoods and life skills intervention (SHAZ!) / Megan S. Dunbar and Imelda Mudekunye-Mahaka ; Is microfinance coupled with gender training empowering for women? Lessons from the IMAGE process evaluation in rural South Africa / Abigail M. Hatcher ... [et al.] ; Older U.S. women's economic security, health, and empowerment : the fight against opponents of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid / Carroll L. Estes ; Women's health and empowerment after the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City / Gustavo Ortiz Millán ; Impact of a grassroots property rights program on women's empowerment in rural Kenya / Kate Grünke-Horton and Shari L. Dworkin ; Land tenure and women's empowerment and health : a programmatic evaluation of structural change in Nicaragu a / Shelly Grabe, Anjali Dutt, and Carlos Arenas -- Conclusions : a twenty-first-century agenda for women's empowerment and health / Shari L. Dworkin and Lara Stemple.
Summary:
"What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? Despite the rise of a human rights-based approach to women's health and increasing awareness of the synergies between women's health and empowerment, a lack of consensus remains as to how to measure empowerment and successfully intervene in ways that improve health. Women's Empowerment and Global Health provides thirteen detailed, multidisciplinary case studies from across the globe and through the course of a woman's life to show how science and advocacy can be creatively merged to enhance the agency and status of women. Accompanying short videos provide background about programs on the ground in India, the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Women's Empowerment and Global Health explores the promises and limits of programmatic, scientific, and rights-based work in real-world settings and provides the next generation of researchers and practitioners, as well as students in global and public health, sociology, anthropology, women's studies, law, business, and medicine, with cutting edge and inspirational examples of programs that point the way toward achieving women's equality and fulfilling the right to health."--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.