Project
In all European countries, social inequalities in health remain high. Numerous research studies have identified various social factors that affect health. However, gender, as a social power relation 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 of class and “race” 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 fifteen researchers, including doctoral and post-doctoral students.
The Gendhi community is enlarged by practitioners and associated researchers.
Understanding how structural, social and psychosocial factors come to affect our health resulting in health inequalities is more relevant now than ever as trends in mortality gaps between rich and poor appear to have widened over the past decades. To...