Internet Resources on Gender & Health

Internet has considerable resources on ‘Gender and Health’, Gender analysis and related issues. But one needs time, patience, discrimination and search skills to get to what one is actually looking for. We list the best (in our estimation) ten sites here for beginners. Let us also remember that information changes, shifts and gets outdated quite rapidly on the web. Also the boundary between what is free and what is for a fee, is blurred sometimes.

 

1. PAHO (Pan American Health Organization)

http://www.paho.org/genderandhealth/

http://www.paho.org/English/DPM/GPP/GH/Mainstreaming.htm

 

2. UNDP

http://learning.undp.org

 

3. WHO

http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/pages_resources/listing_gender.en.html

http://www.who.int/gender/other_health/en/

http://www.who.int/gender/en/

 

4. Tropical School of Medicine, Liverpool, UK

http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/hsr/GG-1.html

 

5. Women’s Health Bureau, Health Canada

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/women/exploringconcepts.htm

 

6. ELDIS

http://www.eldis.org/gender/

 

7. Institute of Development Studies - BRIDGE

http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/page2.html

 

8. Harvard School of Public Health

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/

 

9. Women’s Health, New Zealand

http://www.womens-health.org.nz/

 

10. Worldbank

http://www.worldbank.org/gender/

 

When looking for something unusual (gender differences in Malaria for example), try following search engines. Start with a broad query (Malaria), then search with in results, and refine the search by using key words like – gender, gender analysis, differences, women, sexual, vulnerability etc.

http://www.google.com/

http://hotbot.lycos.com/

http://www.metacrawler.com/

 

The pages, which one opens, may not highlight the key words one is looking for. If it is a long document, press ‘Control + F’ (in Internet explorer, other browsers have equivalent shortcuts) and use the key word to do a rapid textual search, to confirm relevance of the document. At poor connectivity, it helps to switch off graphics and focus exclusively on text in most browsers.