… be redressed (WHO, 2020g). Although women make up 70 % of health professionals and 80 % of health associate professionals in the EU (EIGE, 2018b), this … majority does not translate into leadership roles in the health sector, or in politics. During the pandemic and until …
… Gender inequalities in health Gender differences in health status Overall, women tend to report worse health than men. In the 27 Member States of the EU (EU-27), …
… in the sector. By March 2021, only one in four EU health ministers and 4 out of 10 junior/vice ministers were women. Domain of health The domain of health, although having the highest score of all six domains, …
… Centre for Disease Prevention and Control EHIS European Health Interview Survey EIGE European Institute for Gender … Labour Force Survey EU-OSHA European Agency for Safety and Health at Work Eurofound European Foundation for the … FTE full-time equivalent GBD Global Burden of Disease HBSC Health Behaviour in School-aged Children HIV human …
… Gender inequalities in health The conditions in which women and men live, work and spend their time affect their health. Gender and other factors, such as age, education, … to environmental risks, their options for tackling ill health and the support they can receive from public …
… that the crisis would be short-lived. As the toll on human health and lives has grown, the intertwined social, economic and health dimensions of our lives have come into sharp relief. Although health was designated the thematic focus of the Gender …
… income, education, power distribution, unpaid care and health. Therefore, it has an essential place in gender … inequalities experienced by women in the fields of work, health, money, power, education and time use. From this point …
… in all areas, despite progress in recent decades. In the health domain [1] , these include major disparities in life expectancy and self-assessed health status. There are also large gender differences in health-impacting behaviour. Men tend to engage more in risky …
… now more frequently included among social determinants of health (SDH) (Bhui, 2018; Gerry McCartney et al., 2021), and … are sometimes referred to as a political determinant of health (Ottersen et al., 2014). A 2020 WHO report found that …
… many other aspects of a person’s life. This includes their health. The burden of unpaid care is increasingly regarded as a determinant of health. Policies promoting women’s participation in the … link to lower levels of gender inequality in health (Palència et al., 2017). As discussed in Section 9.1., …
… upwards trend in the proportion of men studying education, health and welfare, humanities and the arts has plateaued, as … empirical evidence highlights how education impacts health by affecting behaviour, including the use of preventive health services (OECD, 2006). It has been found that …
… income, are crucial social determinants of the health of both women and men. A higher income supports improvement in health, and better health enables an individual to earn a higher income (Deaton, …
… between paid and unpaid work, and between the economic and health spheres. Critical to people’s lives, work also impacts well-being and health through social, physical and psychosocial hazards, … Better quality of work is related to better individual health (Barnay, 2016; Henseke, 2018), and precarious …
… serious challenges. We are living not just a public health crisis, but also an economic and social crisis. … in the domains of work, money, knowledge, time, power and health. It also addresses the spike in violence against women … and men in society have borne the brunt of the impact. Health, the thematic focus of this report, explores an …