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Description of  Women's Empowerment and Global Health: A Twenty-First-Century Agenda

0520272889 pdf What is womens empowerment, and how and why does it matter for womens health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health Institutes (UCGHI) Center of Expertise (COE) on Womens Health, Gender, and Empowerment aimed to answer with this book. Since 2009 the COE has brought together a multidisciplinary network of experts from across the University of California (UC) campuses and departments, along with their global partners, to advance research and education on what has become a capstone theme in the global health and development agenda: womens and girls empowerment and health. Womens Empowerment and Global Health demonstrates the outcomes of COE's commitment to advance pedagogy and present the work of thought leaders in this domain. Despite the rise of a human rightsbased approach to health and increasing awareness of the synergies between womens health and empowerment, a lack of consensus remains as to how to operationalize empowerment in ways that improve health. Read more