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Resources for Promoting Health in Women

This website offers practical tools, online training, and information about gender transformative health promotion.
These resources have been developed for a range of health and social service professionals, as well as students, researchers, program managers, policy makers, and anyone concerned with improving health promotion.
Using the resources on this website will help in developing the skills to design, plan and evaluate a wide range of health promotion activities that also aim to reduce gender inequities.

Unit 1 – Key Points

Gender transformative health promotion focuses on the dual goals of improving health as well as gender equity.
Evidence increasingly demonstrates that health care interventions—including health promotion—are more effective if they are designed with gender in mind
Gender transformative health promotion also encourages examining the links between sex, gender and determinants such as income, education, occupation and the social and built environments, as well as processes such as discrimination, marginalization, racism etc
Gender transformative health promotion is concerned with women’s empowerment and recognizes that this requires examining how gender inequity also affects boys and men