Description du projet
Révéler la relation entre les inégalités de genre et de santé en Europe
Les inégalités de genre et de santé sont présentes dans le monde entier. Dans l’UE, le mouvement vers l’égalité des sexes avance à pas de tortue. Quant aux différences d’état de santé, elles sont une réalité à la fois entre et au sein des États membres de l’UE. Le projet GENDHI, financé par l’UE, étudiera la situation actuelle afin d’expliquer comment le genre recoupe d’autres hiérarchies sociales (classe sociale et race/ethnicité) pour produire des inégalités sociales en matière de santé. Les chercheurs examineront comment les corps (mal)sains sont construits socialement et comment les comportements favorisant la bonne santé et les modèles de soins sont façonnés par le genre. Le projet développera une analyse de triangulation basée sur une analyse quantitative et des données qualitatives provenant de monographies familiales, d’entretiens, de patients et de médecins. L’accent sera mis sur l’hypertension et l’infarctus du myocarde ainsi que sur la dépression, la maladie d’Alzheimer et le cancer colorectal.
Objectif
"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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Champ scientifique
- 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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ERC-SyG - Synergy grantInstitution d’accueil
75654 Paris
France