Women, disasters, epidemics and healthA selection of full-text links on this subject.
Note: Canadian Women’s Health Network (CWHN) closed down. For more detailed information see http://www.cwhn.ca/en/node/46597
"What are the connections between women’s inequality and our health during a disaster? For example, why are women more likely to be victims of violence after an earthquake? Why is it better to put emergency food aid directly into the hands of women, instead of men? And why is preventing sexual assault against women crucial in the fight against HIV/AIDS? In this primer we explore these and other questions. Gender, health and disaster is a growing area of study that is enabling aid workers and others striving to help all people - women, men, girls and boys – survive during catastrophes.
“Disaster” can refer to a multitude of terrible events: from hurricanes to oil spills to stock market crashes. We focus in this Primer on natural disasters, epidemics and pandemics, and war. We also look at the ‘collateral damage’ of disaster, such as how violence against women rises in its aftermath. Not least, we examine why marginalized women – poor women, women of colour, Aboriginal women, disabled women – are the most vulnerable when calamity occurs."