Hilary Standing
Biographic Data
| ID | 193028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Standing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary |
| FAMILY NAME | Standing |
| SIGNATURE | STANDING H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9823-9479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 260 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Dependence and autonomy
‘We have the internet in our hands’
BACKGROUND: Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) which enable people to access, use and promote health information through digital technology, promise important health systems innovations which can challenge gatekeepers' control of information, through processes of disintermediation. College students, in pursuit of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information, are particularly affected by gatekeeping as strong social and cultura…
ICTs and the challenge of health system transition in low and middle-income countries
The aim of this paper is to contribute to debates about how governments and other stakeholders can influence the application of ICTs to increase access to safe, effective and affordable treatment of common illnesses, especially by the poor. First, it argues that the health sector is best conceptualized as a 'knowledge economy'. This supports a broadened view of health service provision that includes formal and informal arrangements for the provis…
Whose Knowledge Counts? Development Studies Institutions and Power Relations in a Globalised World
Development studies is an uneasy discipline. It has a relatively short history that is linked particularly to decolonisation and the rise of overseas aid. It is associated almost exclusively with certain geographical locations and a political economy of resource transfer, rather than with a particular body of knowledge or theory. It is thus founded on the very dichotomies it seeks to overcome – of North and South and the massive imbalances in acc…
Introduction
The idea for this supplement arose from discussions among a set of research partners associated with the Realising Rights Research Programme Consortium (RR RPC), an international partnership funded by the UK Department for International Development from 200510 that focused on neglected areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) [1]. In the Consortium, work on rights has been concerned with ways of bridging the gap between internati…
Making health markets work better for poor people
There has been a dramatic spread of market relationships in many low- and middle-income countries. This spread has been much faster than the development of the institutional arrangements to influence the performance of health service providers. In many countries poor people obtain a large proportion of their outpatient medical care and drugs from informal providers working outside a regulatory framework, with deleterious consequences in terms of …
The sexual and reproductive health care market in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the formal public health system provides few services for common sexual and reproductive health problems such as white discharge, fistula, prolapse, menstrual problems, reproductive and urinary tract infections, and sexual problems. Recent research has found that poor women and men resort to informal providers for these problems instead. This paper draws on interviews with 303 providers and 312 women from two rural and one urban ar…
Introduction
This introductory article argues that the interlinked Issues of legal reform, the provision of accessible and affordable services and the strengthening of women's capacities to exercise agency over their own bodies make safe abortion a development issue. Within this understanding, it reviews these intersections through the multiple framings used in the articles in this IDS Bulletin. Public health arguments for safe abortion services speak to incr…
Future health systems
Markets, information asymmetry and health care
Producing effective knowledge agents in a pluralistic environment
Gender, myth and fable
1.I use fable in the sense of a
Gender equity in transitional China's healthcare policy reforms
This paper explores the gendered impact of Chinese healthcare reforms, drawing attention to the complex and changing nature of gender inequities in China's current economic and social transformations. Using official and academic sources, it examines the reforms' impact on access to reproductive healthcare, the gendered effects of changes in health sector financing – particularly the collapse of insurance systems and rising costs of healthcare, an…
Whose Knowledge Counts? Development Studies Institutions and Power Relations in a Globalised World
Development studies is an uneasy discipline. It has a relatively short history that is linked particularly to decolonisation and the rise of\noverseas aid. It is associated almost exclusively with certain geographical locations and a political economy of resource transfer, rather than with a particular body of knowledge or theory. It is thus founded on the very dichotomies it seeks to overcome – of North and South and the massive imbalances in ac…
Engendering the bureaucracy? Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming gender in Ministries of Health under sector-wide approaches
The increasing ascendancy of 'gender mainstreaming' as the central approach to improving gender equity has largely determined strategies to integrate a gender focus in sector-wide approaches (SWAps). This paper explores the impetus for and process of gender mainstreaming in SWAps in the Ministries of Health in Uganda, Ghana, Malawi and Mozambique, and outlines some achievements and challenges. The shifting and contested relationships between the …
Engendering the bureaucracy? Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming gender in Ministries of Health under sector-wide approaches
Health Policy and Planning volume 20, number 3, May 2005, pp. 141–9 The fourth author was erroneously printed as Helen Standing. It should in fact be Hilary Standing as it is printed above. The editors apologize to Dr Standing for this error.
Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes in Nepal
Gender, Myth and Fable
Care for perinatal illness in rural Nepal
BACKGROUND: Maternal, perinatal and neonatal mortality rates remain high in rural areas of developing countries. Most deliveries take place at home and care-seeking behaviour is often delayed. We report on a combined quantitative and qualitative study of care seeking obstacles and practices relating to perinatal illness in rural Makwanpur district, Nepal, with particular emphasis on consultation strategies. METHODS: The analysis included a survey…
An Overview of Changing Agendas in Health Sector Reforms
This paper discusses health sector reforms and what they have meant for sexual and reproductive health advocacy in low-income countries. Beginning in the late 1980s, it outlines the main macro-economic shifts and policy trends which affect countries dependent on external aid and the main health sector reforms taking place. It then considers the implications of successive macro-economic and reform agendas for reproductive and sexual health advocac…
Gender and Equity in Health Sector Reform Rrogrammes
This paper reviews current literature and debates about Health Sector Reform (HSR) in developing countries in the context of its possible implications for women's health and for gender equity. It points out that gender is a significant marker of social and economic vulnerability which is manifest in inequalities of access to health care and in women's and men's different positioning as users and producers of health care. Any analysis of equity mu…
Aids
Dependency and Autonomy
Issues, methods and empirical background employed women - the social and economic background working lives - women in the labour force working lives - the domestic arena employment and autonomy - women's wages and the distribution and management of household income employment and autonomy - ideological struggles dependence and autonomy - women's employment and the family in Calcutta. Appendix - what measures would help employed women
Voices from Within
Dependence and Autonomy
Punjabi Kinship and Marriage
Markets, information asymmetry and health care
Aids
Voices from Within
Producing effective knowledge agents in a pluralistic environment
Dependence and Autonomy
Future health systems
An Overview of Changing Agendas in Health Sector Reforms
This paper discusses health sector reforms and what they have meant for sexual and reproductive health advocacy in low-income countries. Beginning in the late 1980s, it outlines the main macro-economic shifts and policy trends which affect countries dependent on external aid and the main health sector reforms taking place. It then considers the implications of successive macro-economic and reform agendas for reproductive and sexual health advocac…
Making health markets work better for poor people
There has been a dramatic spread of market relationships in many low- and middle-income countries. This spread has been much faster than the development of the institutional arrangements to influence the performance of health service providers. In many countries poor people obtain a large proportion of their outpatient medical care and drugs from informal providers working outside a regulatory framework, with deleterious consequences in terms of …
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer
To the extent that peasants, particularly Indian peasants, are ever considered to be economically mobile, they are generally seen from one of two perspectives: either the Malthusian perspective, which predicts that most landholdings will shrink over time, due to partitioning among multiple heirs; or the Marxian perspective, which predicts that a few landholdings will increase in size at the expense of the vast majority-the latter diminishing, in …
Gender, Myth and Fable
Introduction
This introductory article argues that the interlinked Issues of legal reform, the provision of accessible and affordable services and the strengthening of women's capacities to exercise agency over their own bodies make safe abortion a development issue. Within this understanding, it reviews these intersections through the multiple framings used in the articles in this IDS Bulletin. Public health arguments for safe abortion services speak to incr…
Indian Women and Patriarchy
Engendering the bureaucracy? Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming gender in Ministries of Health under sector-wide approaches
The increasing ascendancy of 'gender mainstreaming' as the central approach to improving gender equity has largely determined strategies to integrate a gender focus in sector-wide approaches (SWAps). This paper explores the impetus for and process of gender mainstreaming in SWAps in the Ministries of Health in Uganda, Ghana, Malawi and Mozambique, and outlines some achievements and challenges. The shifting and contested relationships between the …
Gender equity in transitional China's healthcare policy reforms
This paper explores the gendered impact of Chinese healthcare reforms, drawing attention to the complex and changing nature of gender inequities in China's current economic and social transformations. Using official and academic sources, it examines the reforms' impact on access to reproductive healthcare, the gendered effects of changes in health sector financing – particularly the collapse of insurance systems and rising costs of healthcare, an…
Life Stages
The sexual and reproductive health care market in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the formal public health system provides few services for common sexual and reproductive health problems such as white discharge, fistula, prolapse, menstrual problems, reproductive and urinary tract infections, and sexual problems. Recent research has found that poor women and men resort to informal providers for these problems instead. This paper draws on interviews with 303 providers and 312 women from two rural and one urban ar…
Whose Knowledge Counts? Development Studies Institutions and Power Relations in a Globalised World
Development studies is an uneasy discipline. It has a relatively short history that is linked particularly to decolonisation and the rise of overseas aid. It is associated almost exclusively with certain geographical locations and a political economy of resource transfer, rather than with a particular body of knowledge or theory. It is thus founded on the very dichotomies it seeks to overcome – of North and South and the massive imbalances in acc…
Whose Knowledge Counts? Development Studies Institutions and Power Relations in a Globalised World
Development studies is an uneasy discipline. It has a relatively short history that is linked particularly to decolonisation and the rise of\noverseas aid. It is associated almost exclusively with certain geographical locations and a political economy of resource transfer, rather than with a particular body of knowledge or theory. It is thus founded on the very dichotomies it seeks to overcome – of North and South and the massive imbalances in ac…
Engendering the bureaucracy? Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming gender in Ministries of Health under sector-wide approaches
Health Policy and Planning volume 20, number 3, May 2005, pp. 141–9 The fourth author was erroneously printed as Helen Standing. It should in fact be Hilary Standing as it is printed above. The editors apologize to Dr Standing for this error.
Hindu Shrines of Chotanagpur
Understanding Indian Civilisation
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer
To the extent that peasants, particularly Indian peasants, are ever considered to be economically mobile, they are generally seen from one of two perspectives: either the Malthusian perspective, which predicts that most landholdings will shrink over time, due to partitioning among multiple heirs; or the Marxian perspective, which predicts that a few landholdings will increase in size at the expense of the vast majority-the latter diminishing, in …
Aspects of Tribal Life in South Asia. 1. Strategy and Survival
Indian Women and Patriarchy
Women, work and property in north-west India
Punjabi Kinship and Marriage
Punjabi Kinship and Marriage
All Day Every Day
The Changing Division of Labor in South Asia
Life Stages
Dependence and Autonomy
Aids
Dependency and Autonomy
Issues, methods and empirical background employed women - the social and economic background working lives - women in the labour force working lives - the domestic arena employment and autonomy - women's wages and the distribution and management of household income employment and autonomy - ideological struggles dependence and autonomy - women's employment and the family in Calcutta. Appendix - what measures would help employed women
Voices from Within
Dependence and Autonomy
Gender and Equity in Health Sector Reform Rrogrammes
This paper reviews current literature and debates about Health Sector Reform (HSR) in developing countries in the context of its possible implications for women's health and for gender equity. It points out that gender is a significant marker of social and economic vulnerability which is manifest in inequalities of access to health care and in women's and men's different positioning as users and producers of health care. Any analysis of equity mu…
An Overview of Changing Agendas in Health Sector Reforms
This paper discusses health sector reforms and what they have meant for sexual and reproductive health advocacy in low-income countries. Beginning in the late 1980s, it outlines the main macro-economic shifts and policy trends which affect countries dependent on external aid and the main health sector reforms taking place. It then considers the implications of successive macro-economic and reform agendas for reproductive and sexual health advocac…
Care for perinatal illness in rural Nepal
BACKGROUND: Maternal, perinatal and neonatal mortality rates remain high in rural areas of developing countries. Most deliveries take place at home and care-seeking behaviour is often delayed. We report on a combined quantitative and qualitative study of care seeking obstacles and practices relating to perinatal illness in rural Makwanpur district, Nepal, with particular emphasis on consultation strategies. METHODS: The analysis included a survey…
Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes in Nepal
Gender, Myth and Fable
Engendering the bureaucracy? Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming gender in Ministries of Health under sector-wide approaches
The increasing ascendancy of 'gender mainstreaming' as the central approach to improving gender equity has largely determined strategies to integrate a gender focus in sector-wide approaches (SWAps). This paper explores the impetus for and process of gender mainstreaming in SWAps in the Ministries of Health in Uganda, Ghana, Malawi and Mozambique, and outlines some achievements and challenges. The shifting and contested relationships between the …
Engendering the bureaucracy? Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming gender in Ministries of Health under sector-wide approaches
Health Policy and Planning volume 20, number 3, May 2005, pp. 141–9 The fourth author was erroneously printed as Helen Standing. It should in fact be Hilary Standing as it is printed above. The editors apologize to Dr Standing for this error.
Gender, myth and fable
1.I use fable in the sense of a
Gender equity in transitional China's healthcare policy reforms
This paper explores the gendered impact of Chinese healthcare reforms, drawing attention to the complex and changing nature of gender inequities in China's current economic and social transformations. Using official and academic sources, it examines the reforms' impact on access to reproductive healthcare, the gendered effects of changes in health sector financing – particularly the collapse of insurance systems and rising costs of healthcare, an…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Economics (16 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (10 works) · Health care (10 works) · Population (9 works)