Project description
Unveiling the relationship between gender and health inequalities in Europe
Gender and health inequalities exist worldwide. In the EU, the move towards gender equality is proceeding at a snail’s pace. As for differences in health status, these exist both between and within EU member states. The EU-funded GENDHI project will investigate the current situation to explain how gender intersects with other social hierarchies (social class and race/ethnicity) to produce social inequalities in health. Researchers will consider how (un)healthy bodies are socially constructed and how health-seeking behaviours and patterns of care are shaped by gender. The project will develop a triangulation analysis based on quantitative analysis and qualitative data from family monographies, interviews, patients and doctors. The focus will be on hypertension and myocardial infarction as well as depression, Alzheimer’s disease and colorectal cancer.
Fields of science
- natural scienceschemical sciencesanalytical chemistryquantitative analysis
- social sciencessociologyanthropologyethnology
- social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalities
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncologycolorectal cancer
- social sciencessociologyanthropologyscience and technology studies
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Funding Scheme
ERC-SyG - Synergy grant
Host institution
75654 Paris
France
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Beneficiaries (3)
75654 Paris
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75794 Paris
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
75014 Paris
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