Descripción del proyecto
Desvelar la relación entre las desigualdades de género y salud en Europa
En todo el mundo se producen desigualdades de género y salud. En la Unión Europea (UE), el cambio hacia la igualdad de género avanza con gran lentitud. En lo que respecta a las diferencias en cuanto al estado de salud, existen tanto en el seno de los Estados miembros de la UE como entre ellos. En el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos GENDHI se investigará la situación actual para explicar cómo se interrelacionan el género y otras jerarquías sociales (clase social y raza/origen étnico) para dar lugar a desigualdades sociales en la salud. Los investigadores analizarán las características sociales de quienes disfrutan (o no) de buena salud y cómo varían en función del sexo los patrones de atención sanitaria y los hábitos relativos a la demanda de asistencia sanitaria. En el proyecto se desarrollará un análisis de triangulación basado en análisis cuantitativos y datos cualitativos de monografías familiares, entrevistas, pacientes y médicos. Las principales afecciones analizadas serán la hipertensión y el infarto de miocardio, además de la depresión, la enfermedad de Alzheimer y el cáncer colorrectal.
Objetivo
"In all European countries, social inequalities in health remain pervasive. Much research has identified a number of social stratifiers of health while others have specified the role of the health care system in contributing to the evolution of health inequalities. However, gender, as a social relation of power between men and women, is rarely considered as a key determinant of health inequalities, and when it is, theoretical frameworks are rarely relevant. Furthermore, while social science studies generally ignore biological processes, sex differences in biomedical research are often interpreted as biologically irreducible.
Our objective is to document and explain how gender intersects with other social hierarchies (social class and race/ethnicity) to produce social inequalities in health from early childhood to late adulthood. Adopting a life course perspective, we will examine two complementary research questions 1)""gendered embodied health"" or how (un)healthy bodies are socially constructed, and 2) ""gendered health care cascade"" or how health-seeking behaviours and patterns of care are shaped by gender. Within this framework, we focus on hypertension and myocardial infarction, depression, Alzheimer’s disease and colorectal cancer.
Our approach is resolutely multidisciplinary, associating social sciences and epidemiology, in close collaboration with clinicians. We develop triangulation analysis based on (i) secondary quantitative analysis of six large cross-sectional and cohort survey including biological markers and (ii) family monographies, interviews with youth, patients and health professionals and ethnographic observations of medical visits.
The multiple working meetings to develop this project has firmed our conviction over the strength, innovative value and feasibility of this multidisciplinary, multi-method and multi-pathology project supported by four experienced researchers who are leaders in their field and internationally recognised.
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Ámbito científico
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicineneurologydementiaalzheimer
- social sciencessociologyanthropologyethnology
- social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalities
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncologycolorectal cancer
- social sciencessociologyanthropologyscience and technology studies
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-SyG - Synergy grantInstitución de acogida
75654 Paris
Francia