Project
In all European countries, social inequalities in health remain high. A wide body of research has highlighted various social factors that affect health. However, gender, as a system of power relations between women and men, is rarely considered as a key determinant of health inequalities. The purpose of GENDHI is to understand how gender intersects with other social relations systems of power relations, such as class and race (racism), to construct social inequalities in health, throughout the life course.
Presentation
The project is led by four scientific leaders. The team is composed of about twenty researchers, including doctoral and post-doctoral students.
The Gendhi community is enlarged by practitioners and associated researchers.
In metropolitan France, estimates suggest that more than one in three adults has hypertension. Low-cost treatments are available, yet fewer than one in four hypertensive adults has a controlled level of hypertension below 140/90 mmHg. T
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For its first edition, the Gendhi residential seminar brought together the entire team (PhD students, post-docs and PIs) and researchers associated with the Gender and health inequalities ERC project at Royaumont Abbey on 11 and 12 July 2023.
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It is widely recognised that the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted individuals’ mental health. However, little emphasis has been put on the possible influence of socio-economic factors in the relationship. In the contex
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Seth Holmes, anthropologist and physician, is Chancellor's Professor at UC Berkeley. He works on the social uses and variations of the body, and social inequalities in health and medicine, issues that are at the heart of the Gendhi ERC.
He took pa...
The principal aim of this study was to explore if biological differences between men and women can be explained by gendered mechanisms.
We used data from the 1958 National Child Development Study, including all the l
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