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LOCATION:Université de Montréal - Pavillon Marguerite-d'Youville\, 2375\,
  chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine\, Montréal\, QC\, canada\, H3T 1A8
SUMMARY:Women's health in India: Emergent Issues & Challenges to Public Hea
 lth
DESCRIPTION:Ce séminaire scientifique est co-organisé par l'Institut de r
 echerche en santé publique de l'Université de Montréal (IRSPUM) et le P
 ôle de recherche sur l'Inde et l'Asie du Sud (PRIAS) du CÉRIUM. Il sera 
 donné par Lingam Lakshmi.  Conférencière Dr. Lakshmi is Dean\, Research
  & Development and Professor of Women Studies at the Tata Institute of Soc
 ial Sciences in Mumbai\, India. Her research interests include the social 
 and gender-specific implications of health sector reforms and other macro 
 economic policies\; urban poverty and women livelihoods\; studying women a
 nd other social movements in the period of globalization\; understanding w
 omen health and reproductive rights\; and exploring issues of culture\, wo
 men identity and agency. She has undertaken several research projects and 
 published extensively on gender\, health\, development\; structural adjust
 ment & urban poverty\; micro credit & women empowerment and public policie
 s. She is on the Curriculum Advisory Boards of several Women Studies Depar
 tments in Indian Universities as well as Technical and Ethical Advisory Bo
 ard member of NGOs. In addition to her outstanding teaching and research 
 activities\, she has contributed to gender and equity mainstreaming activi
 ties of Government departments in a number of states in India.  Résumé P
 rovision of health care services implicitly factor in the understanding of
  social and economic disadvantage and vulnerability. However\, the underst
 anding of gender as an important contributor for poor/negative health outc
 omes has still not been addressed in public health programmes. Focus on wo
 men still continues to be women-specific and maternal health oriented.This
  talk attempts to throw light on understanding the gender issues in societ
 y that throw fresh challenges to health care services delivery.
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