Cross Cutting Priorities

PURPOSE

To provide PAHO/WHO staff with basic skills on gender mainstreaming in health. The elearning builds familiarity with how gender operates as a determinant of health, guides.

OBJECTIVES

1. Increase knowledge and awareness of how outcomes in health are related to sex, gender norms, roles, relations and other determinants of health.
2. Initiate the building of core analytical skills for gender analysis and its application in a public health context.
3. Understand how the health sector can use gender analysis tools to effectively reduce health inequities