This "Self-learning Virtual course on Gender and health: awareness, analysis, and action" seeks to provide participants with the knowledge and basic skills for gender mainstreaming in health. The course outlines how gender operates as a determinant of health and guides participants through the basic steps of applying gender-sensitive planning to their work, as well as introducing some basic techniques on integrating a gender perspective in public health practice.
General objectives:
Increase knowledge and awareness of how health outcomes are influenced by sex, gender norms, roles and relations, and other determinants of health.
Start to develop a set of analytical skills on how to conduct a gender analysis and how such skills might be applied in a public health context.
Understand how the health sector can use gender analysis tools to effectively reduce health inequities.
