Abstract

ESTRADA MONTOYA, John Harold. Gender and health articulation: a challenge that can't be postponed. Rev. Gerenc. Polit. Salud [online]. 2009, vol.8, n.17, pp.106-122. ISSN 1657-7027.

This article gives a gender perspective of the analysis of the health situation, as well as the articulation between the categories of gender and health, in order to understand the differences between women’s and men’s health and also the specificities that not normative gender identity has, such as the transgender people have. The epidemiological information masks a high proportion of problems with a greater prevalence and incidence on one of the sexes. The recommendations are, to lend special attention to the disparate processes underlying the unhealthy lives of women and men, to transcend biomedical individualism, as well as to study the social and historical forces which generate gender-related health disadvantages, and to pass from the individual to the collective level.

Keywords : Gender Identity; Women’s Health; Men’s Health; Differentials in Health; Stereotypes; Human immunodeficiency virus -HIV-; acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -AIDS-; Gender Identity; Women’s Health; Men’s Health; HIV (Viruses).

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