Interpreting Khmer Women’s Health

Contexts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-75
Author(s):  
Mary-Collier Wilks
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
International Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
The U.S

International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) from the U.S. and Japan have a shared aim of improving women’s health yet implement very different programs in Cambodia. The author’s observations and interviews in Tokyo, Washington D.C., and Cambodia suggest that while NGO practitioners in Cambodia can adapt programming to better reflect the concerns of local stakeholders, they have less influence in defining what counts as success.

scholarly journals Women's Health: 30 Years of Progress in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caira M. Woods ◽  
Bethany Applebaum ◽  
Yvonne Green ◽  
Deborah L. Kallgren ◽  
Evelyn Kappeler
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Health And Human Services ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals The Amazon Soy Moratorium: How companies, NGOs and government leveraged market forces to tackle deforestation in the Amazon

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Corporate Policies ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Policies And Practices

This case study describes how companies, nongovernmental organizations, and government leveraged market forces to tackle deforestation in the Amazon. This case study is part of a broader analysis on key lessons women’s health advocates can learn from the environmental movement on effective strategies for driving changes in corporate policies and practices.

scholarly journals Reversing the Trends toward Shorter Lives and Poorer Health for U.S. Women: A Call for Innovative Interdisciplinary Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 1796 ◽  
Author(s):  
April Schweinhart ◽  
Janine Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
The United States ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The U.S

The United States (U.S.) is a leader and innovator in biomedicine, yet trails behind for many key health indicators, especially for women. This paper highlights key evidence indicating that not only is the state of women’s health in the U.S. lagging, but it is at risk for falling off the curve. Women’s health care remains fragmented; research in the field can be disconnected and difficult to integrate across disciplines—silos prevail. Structural obstacles contribute to this lack of cohesion, and innovative, interdisciplinary research approaches which integrate the multidimensional aspects of sex and gender, and race and ethnicity, with a life course perspective are sorely needed. Such synergistic, scientific strategies have the potential to reverse the trend towards shorter life expectancy and poorer health for women in the U.S. The National Institute for Health (NIH) seeks to raise the bar for the health of all women by tackling these issues through enhancing the relevance of biomedical research to the health of women and driving the sustained advancement of women in biomedical careers.

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