Gender EURO - World Health Organization (WHO) Gender identity refers to a person’s internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond to their sex at birth Gender influences health outcomes, exposure to risk, access to information and resources, access to and experiences of health-care, participation in the health-care workforce, and many relevant social determinants of health and well-being
Gender and health - World Health Organization (WHO) Gender is hierarchical and produces inequalities that intersect with other social and economic inequalities Gender-based discrimination intersects with other factors of discrimination, such as ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, age, geographic location, gender identity and sexual orientation, among others
Gender and health - World Health Organization (WHO) Gender norms, roles and relations, and gender inequality and inequity, affect people’s health all around the world This Q A examines the links between gender and health, highlighting WHO’s ongoing work to address gender-related barriers to healthcare, advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity, and achieve health for all
Gender incongruence and transgender health in the ICD Gender incongruence of adolescence or adulthood: Gender Incongruence of Adolescence and Adulthood is characterised by a marked and persistent incongruence between an individual´s experienced gender and the assigned sex, which often leads to a desire to ‘transition’, in order to live and be accepted as a person of the experienced gender, through hormonal treatment, surgery or other health
Gender Inequality Index (GII) - World Health Organization (WHO) The GII varies between 0 (when women and men fare equally) and 1 (when men or women fare poorly compared to the other in all dimensions) It is designed to reveal the extent to which national human development achievements are eroded by gender inequality, and to provide empirical foundations for policy analysis and advocacy efforts
Sexual health - World Health Organization (WHO) The working definition of sexuality is: “…a central aspect of being human throughout life encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction
Female genital mutilation - World Health Organization (WHO) Overview Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons
Violence against women - World Health Organization (WHO) Gender inequality and norms on the acceptability of violence against women are a root cause of violence against women Health consequences Intimate partner (physical, sexual and psychological) and sexual violence cause serious short- and long-term physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health problems for women
Strengthening health sector response to gender-based violence in . . . Gender is hierarchical and produces inequalities that intersect with other social and economic inequalities Gender-based discrimination intersects with other factors of discrimination, such as ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, age, geographic location, gender identity and sexual orientation, among others