A gendered human rights analysis of Ebola and Zika
Locating Gender in Global Health Emergencies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4031482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara E Davies (0000-0002-7637-2252, Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and Associate Professor at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy and Griffith Asia Institute, School of Government and International Relations; Griffith University; Australia), Belinda Bennett (0000-0003-0912-5662, Professor of Health Law in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane; Australia) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1041-1060 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2346.12704 |
| OpenAlex | W2508283833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 98 |
| References cited | 1 |
Globally gender remains a key factor in differing health outcomes for men and women. This article analyses the particular relevance of gender for debates about global health and the role for international human rights law in supporting improved health outcomes during public health emergencies. Looking specifically at the recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks, what we find particularly troubling in both cases is the paucity of engagement with human rights language and the diverse backgrounds of women in these locations of crisis, when women-specific advice was being issued. We find the lessons that should have been learnt from the Ebola experience have not been applied in the Zika outbreak and there remains a disconnect between the international public health advice being issued and the experience of pervasive structural gender inequalities among those experiencing the crises. In both cases we find that responses at the outbreak of the crisis presume that women have economic, social or regulatory options to exercise the autonomy contained in international advice. The problem in the case of both Ebola and Zika has been that leaving structural gender inequalities out of the crisis response has further compounded those inequalities. The article argues for a contextual human rights analysis that takes into account gender as a social and economic determinant of health
Autonomy · Criminology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Global health · Human rights · Inequality · Outbreak · Political science · Public health · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Zika virus · Global Security and Public Health · Human Rights and Development · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Virology
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| Unique citing works | 98 |
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| Citations per year | 10,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 89 |