Primers

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Our primers help you learn the basics about women's health and gender analysis. Each primer gives you a brief explanation of the key issues followed by concrete illustrations and recommended readings which are easily available on line.

• Chronic disease: What do sex and gender have to do with it?
• HPV (Human Papilloma Virus)
• How well are we caring for women? Thinking about gender in evaluating health care
• Prescription drugs for women: How safe? How effective? How necessary?
• Sex and gender-based analysis (SGBA)
• Women, gender and mental health and addictions
• Women’s health and the environment 
• Aging, women and health
• Women, housing and health
• Women, disasters, epidemics and health
• Women, gender and obesity
• Women, gender and medical screening
• Hypersexualization of young girls