Health Equity in Brazil : Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy /

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"This project examines how structural and institutional factors contributed and continue to contribute to poor health outcomes for scores of nameless Afro-Brazilian women and men. Despite having the second largest African-descendant population in the world, Brazil failed to develop policies to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Caldwell, Kia Lilly, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public health.
Women > Health and hygiene.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Femmes > Sante et hygiene.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Sante publique > Bresil.
Blacks
Health Policy > history
Racism
Sexism
Socioeconomic Factors > history
Women's Health
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Health Equity > history
Public health > Brazil.
Brazil.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Feminist Dreams and Nightmares: The Struggle for Gender Health Equity in Brazil; 2 Black Women's Health Activism and the Development of Intersectional Health Policy; 3 Mapping the Development of Health Policies for the Black Population: From the Centenary of Abolition to the Statute of Racial Equality; 4 Strategies to Challenge Institutional Racism and Color Blindness in the Health Sector; 5 The Alyne Case: Maternal Mortality, Intersectional Discrimination, and the Human Right to Health in Brazil.
  • 6 Making Race and Gender Visible in Brazil's HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Policy, Advocacy, and ResearchConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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