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A call to action for universal health coverage: Why we need to address gender inequities in the neglected tropical diseases community
- Source :
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 14, Iss 3, p e0007786 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2020.
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Abstract
- The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and pledge to leave no one behind have raised the importance of ensuring equitable health outcomes and healthcare delivery. Multisectoral approaches to tackling neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and healthcare, have had a limited focus on gender. Yet, gender roles and relations shape vulnerability to NTDs, access to prevention and treatment, and experience of living with NTDs [1]. Understanding the similarities and differences of disease vulnerability and experience between genders can support NTD actors to deliver equitable prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services. The NTD community, including researchers and practitioners, needs to better understand these dynamics and take action to advance gender equality, meet the NTD roadmap 2020 goals, and contribute towards the SDGs and universal health coverage (UHC). The UHC movement is advocating for clear action to address the gender determinants of health. This viewpoint synthesizes evidence from a discussion paper [2] developed by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and TDR (Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, and WHO) in partnership with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to support governments and nongovernment organizations to understand how to recognize and address gender inequities within NTD programs and improve delivery through gender analysis.
- Subjects :
- Male
Economic growth
RC955-962
Vulnerability
Social Sciences
0302 clinical medicine
5. Gender equality
Sociology
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
Health care
Medicine and Health Sciences
Schistosomiasis
Psychology
Public and Occupational Health
030212 general & internal medicine
Disease management (health)
10. No inequality
Disease Management
Neglected Diseases
16. Peace & justice
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
3. Good health
Call to action
Viewpoints
Infectious Diseases
Health Education and Awareness
Helminth Infections
General partnership
Neglected tropical diseases
Female
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health
Neglected Tropical Diseases
congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities
030231 tropical medicine
Sexual and Gender Issues
03 medical and health sciences
Sex Factors
Political science
Tropical Medicine
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Parasitic Diseases
Gender analysis
Humans
Social determinants of health
Healthcare Disparities
Behavior
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Biology and Life Sciences
Tropical Diseases
Health Care
Universal Health Care
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19352735 and 19352727
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6a765e0cc9ffe9a7988377763b2dc2a2