Gender and HIV in South Africa

Advancing Women's Health and Capabilities
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-349-71941-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

This book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity. Importantly, it argues that this urgent problem of justice is changeable. Sprague uses the capabilities approach to bring a theory of health justice, together with multiple sources of evidence, to investigate the complex problem of HIV and accompanying poor health outcomes in black South African women. Motivated by a concern for application of knowledge, this work discusses how to better conceptualise what health justice demands of state and society, and how to mobilise available evidence on health inequities in ways that compel greater state action to address problems of gender and health. 
HIV in women, and possible responses, are investigated on four distinct levels: conceptual, social structure, health systems, and law. The analysis demonstrates that this problem is indeed modifiable with long-term interventions and an enhanced state response targeted at multiple levels.  This book will be of interest to academics and students in the social health sciences, gender and development studies, and global health, as well as HIV/health activists, government officials, policy makers, HIV clinicians and health providers interested in HIV.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sprague, Courtenay

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HIV, AIDS
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Part I. HIV, Gender and Health for Black South African Women.- 1. Health Outcomes, Social and Biological Factors Influencing Women’s HIV Acquisition in Social Context.- 2. HIV Care: Prevailing Trends, Barriers and Paradoxes.- 3. Conceptualising Justice in Health as Opportunities to be Healthy (Capabilities).- Part II. Capabilities for Black South African Women: Gender as a Structural Health Determinant.- 4. Methodological Considerations and Research Methods to Advance Social Justice.- 5. Capabilities for Women Living with HIV: Linking Health Systems to Social Structure.- Part III. Moving from Evidence to Action.- 6. Gender-Transformative Structural Interventions to Advance South African Women’s Capabilities.- 7. Assessing Equity in Health and Women’s Opportunities to be Healthy.- Concluding Reflections: From Research to Policy and Practice.

Über Autor(innen)

Courtenay Sprague is Associate Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security & Global Governance, and the Department of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She holds a joint appointment with the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.