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Systemic Advocacy within a Gender and Health Framework Kerrilie Rice Policy Officer Women’s Health Victoria. URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755. A Social View of Health Social factors or social determinants influence health and illness - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Systemic Advocacy within a Gender and Health Framework
Kerrilie Rice
Policy Officer
Women’s Health Victoria
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
A Social View of Health
• Social factors or social determinants influence health and illness
• Key social determinants include: • Socio-economic status, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Geographic location
• Other social determinants are:• Culture, Disabilities, and Sexuality
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Gender and Sex
Sex: biologically determined; sex differences are the biological characteristics that differentiate women and men.
Gender: the social roles, relationships, expectations, power differences, influences, opportunities, constraints, attitudes and behaviours that a society ascribes to women and men
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Systemic Advocacy
Systemic advocacy works to change a situation for a group of people or to change a system.
Systemic advocacy aims to:• Identify a problem experienced by a group of people• Implement a plan to achieve positive outcome for a group of people• Enable social justice for that group• Change power relations between institutions and the group of people• Improve the quality of lives of people within the group
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Gender Advocacy
WHV uses evidence-based research to inform a practice of systemic advocacy aimed at improving women’s health and well-being.
It works on two levels:• With health providers in the translation of evidence and research into health services practice; and,• With public policy makers to ensure healthy public policy for women.
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Gender Mainstreaming
Gender mainstreaming: the (re)organisation, improvement, development and evaluation of processes so that a gendered perspective is incorporated at all levels and at all stages.
Gender mainstreaming is the aim; a gender analysis framework will help achieve it.
Gender mainstreaming focuses on systemic change.
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Gender Analysis Framework
A process of questioning: ‘are things different’? and if so ‘how’? and ‘why?’
It is predicated upon the following: • All policies have an impact on men and women;• Policies and programs affect women and men in different ways; and,• Women and men are heterogenous groups of and within themselves.
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Gender Analysis Framework ~ Cont’d
As a process, mainstreaming gender may be expected to:
• Expand an organisation’s knowledge of and connection with its community of interest• Reduce unintended adverse consequences of policy
and program implementation; and• Extract better value from investment in programs and
services
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Gender Analysis Framework ~ Cont’d
Gender analysis framework will be present in:
• All levels of State and organisational planning;• The organisation’s work culture; and,• The range and imagination shown in their engagement with external partners and communities.
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Elements of a Gender Analysis Framework
• Gendered Data• Gender Impact Assessment• Gender Awareness Training
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Gendered Data
Gender disaggregated statistics are critical in gauging the extent to which women and men benefit differently from programs, research, practice and policies.
Gendered data comes about when we apply a gender analysis to sex disaggregated data.
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Victorian Gendered Data DirectoryA gateway to data sources that provide information on the health and wellbeing of women in Victoria against an agreed set of indicators.
• How healthy are Victoria’s women?
• How well are we promoting healthy women?
• What factors can affect women adversely?
• How safe and secure are Victoria’s women?
• How well are Victoria’s women learning and developing?
• What kind of families and communities do Victoria’s women live in?
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Victorian Gendered Data Directory
Freely accessible at:
http://www.whv.org.au/health_policy/directory.htm
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Gender Impact Assessment
Monitor new and existing policies to gauge the differences experienced by women and men in terms of:
• Representation and participation in decision making; • The distribution of, and their effective access to, resources;• Influences on roles, attitudes, behaviours and others’ expectations; and,• Their rights, freedoms and access to justice.
This is undertaken to neutralise any discriminatory effects, and to enhance those aspects that promote gender equity as an outcome of policy and planning implementation.
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Gender Awareness Training
Visualising and measuring how policies and programs can cause, or lead to, discriminatory effects is essential in assessing gender impacts around existing and new policy initiatives. These conceptual and technical skills can be imparted through awareness training.
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
The Need for Gendered Analysis FrameworkAlcohol: A case study
• Alcohol consumption accounts for 4.9% of burden of disease• Research shows increased consumption and high-risk binge
drinking among females• Women consumers of alcohol have higher rates of depression,
anxiety, and neuroticism compared to males• Correlations made between women’s adult excess consumption
of alcohol and experiences of childhood abuse and family/domestic violence• Women with alcohol related problems are more likely to suicide,
have alcohol-related accidents, circulatory disorders and cirrhosis of the liver
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Alcohol Case Study ~ cont’d
• Alcohol research generally does not take gender into account• Research that has reveals a number of influencing factors, including, social and work roles, cultural norms, family and peer-group pressures, personal motives and values, and psychosocial
and physical health reasons• Alcohol services and support models designed for both men and
women are found inappropriate for women• Women respond better to female-only treatment programs• Policy documents generally fail to recognise impact of gender on
alcohol usage
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
10 Point Plan for Victorian Women’s Health: 2006 - 2010
Seventeen organisations collaborated in: • A 10 Point Plan for Women’s Health with accompanying background paper;• A set of resources that highlight gender impact on health issues; and,• A statewide summit to advance a gender in health framework.
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
10 Point Plan for Victorian Women’s Health: 2006 - 2010
1. A Social Determinants of Health Approach2. Gender as a Determinant of Health3. Overarching Values4. Priority Issues5. High Level Cross-government Leadership6. An Inclusive Approach7. Honesty and Transparency8. Resourcing and Accountability9. Women’s Specific Services10. Collaborative Frameworks
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
10 Point Plan Statewide Summit
• The Women’s Health Matters 10 Point Plan Setting an Agenda background paper sent to 450 individuals
• The Plan was also sent to all major Victorian political parties as well as influential organisations in health promotion action
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
10 Point Plan Statewide SummitOutcomes and ImpactThis work allowed organisations to:
• Connect to women’s health priorities;• Understand policy and practice potential of gender as a
social determinant of health;• Develop integrated health promotion plans; • Advocate for a statewide women’s health policy;• Share learnings that successful health promotion requires
support at all levels and across different sectors; and,• Broaden the potential for intersectoral collaboration.
URL: http://www.whv.org.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 9662 3755
Outcomes and Impact ~ Cont’dOn a practical level outcomes included:
• Acknowledgement of influence in ‘Women’s Health – Everyone’s Business: Victorian Women’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy Stage Two 2006-2010. Launched in 2006 it had 3 priority areas:
• Mental health and wellbeing;• Sexual and reproductive health; and,• Social connectedness.
• Work that links the mental health promotion priority action plan with the broader Victorian mental health strategy; and,
• A statewide sexual and reproductive health strategy is being developed.