Gender blind? An analysis of global public-private partnerships for health
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19534516 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Hawke (0000-0003-1062-3538, Institute of Child Health, corresponding author), Katherine Buse (0000-0002-5485-0110, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), Kent Buse, Anuj Kapilashrami (0000-0002-6719-9216, University of Edinburgh) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-26 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Globalization and Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-8603 • E-ISSN: 1744-8603 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1186/s12992-017-0249-1 |
| PMID | 28494775 |
| OpenAlex | W2612921051 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 26 |
BACKGROUND: The Global Public Private Partnerships for Health (GPPPH) constitute an increasingly central part of the global health architecture and carry both financial and normative power. Gender is an important determinant of health status, influencing differences in exposure to health determinants, health behaviours, and the response of the health system. We identified 18 GPPPH - defined as global institutions with a formal governance mechanism which includes both public and private for-profit sector actors - and conducted a gender analysis of each. RESULTS: Gender was poorly mainstreamed through the institutional functioning of the partnerships. Half of these partnerships had no mention of gender in their overall institutional strategy and only three partnerships had a specific gender strategy. Fifteen governing bodies had more men than women - up to a ratio of 5:1. Very few partnerships reported sex-disaggregated data in their annual reports or coverage/impact results. The majority of partnerships focused their work on maternal and child health and infectious and communicable diseases - none addressed non-communicable diseases (NCDs) directly, despite the strong role that gender plays in determining risk for the major NCD burdens. CONCLUSIONS: We propose two areas of action in response to these findings. First, GPPPH need to become serious in how they "do" gender; it needs to be mainstreamed through the regular activities, deliverables and systems of accountability. Second, the entire global health community needs to pay greater attention to tackling the major burden of NCDs, including addressing the gendered nature of risk. Given the inherent conflicts of interest in tackling the determinants of many NCDs, it is debatable whether the emergent GPPPH model will be an appropriate one for addressing NCDs
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| Citations per year | 1.88 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |