Resources and Links
Men’s Health
A Gender Perspective in Medicine
A paper demonstrating that gender competence improves rigour from our colleagues in Umea, Sweden, “Gender perspective in medicine: a vital part of medical scientific rationality. A useful model for comprehending structures and hierarchies within medical science.”
Andrology Australia http://www.andrologyaustralia.org
Robert Hall writes about Masculinity and its impact on men’s health, treatment seeking behaviour and health promotion needs. http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/downloads/pdf/june2003/20030601hall.pdf
XY: Men, Masculinities and Gender Politics http://www.xyonline.net
Vicnet Men's Issues Page http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mens_issues
MANNET - Men's Awareness Network http://www.mannet.com.au
Women’s Health
Society for Women’s Health Research http://www.womens-health.org/
Women’s Health Victoria http://www.whv.org.au/
WHO Women and Health http://www.who.int/topics/womens_health/en/
Reproductive Health Matters , formerly the International Journal On Women's Health http://www.rhmjournal.org.uk
WHO Reproductive Health and Research http://www.who.int/rht
BC Centre Of Excellence For Women's Health http://www.bccewh.bc.ca
Women Health Project, Witts University South Africa http://www.witts.ac.za/whp/
Women Doctors
MWIA http://www.mwia.net
The Medical Women’s International Association, an international peak-body for female doctors.
Women in Surgery web links http://www.surgeons.org/Content/NavigationMenu/FellowshipandStandards/FellowshipServices/WomeninSurgery/default.htm
Rural & Remote Practice
Rural and Remote Health Journal http://rrh.deakin.edu.au/
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine http://www.acrrm.org.au/
Universities
Monash University http://www.monash.edu.au/
Monash University , Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences http://www.med.monash.edu.au/
Monash University , Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education (CHMSE) http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cmhse
Gender Issues Committee of the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine http://www.genderandhealth.ca/
Partnership for Gender-specific Medicine at Columbia University http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/partnership/index.html
Uppsala University Centre for Gender Research http://www.gender.uu.se/
University of Cincinnati Medical School ’s Gender-specific Medicine Bibliography http://womenshealth.uc.edu/biblio.cfm
University of Newcastle , Australia Research Centre for Gender and Health http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/centres/gender.html
University of Copenhagen , Department of Women and Gender in Medicine http://pubhealth.ku.dk/mkk_en
Government and NGO
US National Institutes of Health http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
American College of Cardiology Foundation http://www.acc.org/index.htm
Canadian International Development Agency Gender integration Framework http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/acdicida.nsf/En/8525711600526F0A852571370070A406?OpenDocument
Canadian Institute of Gender and Health http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/institutes/igh/8673.shtml#?
Wonca is the peak body for family doctors world-wide http://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/
Wonca 5 th World Conference on Rural Health held in Melbourne in 2002 http://www.globalfamilydoctor.com/aboutWonca/working_groups/ruralconf_2002/index.html
Medical Research Council of the UK , Social and Public Health Sciences Unit http://www.msoc-mrc.gla.ac.uk/CurrentResearch/Gender/Gender_MAIN.html
The Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society http://www.kcwh.unimelb.edu.au/
Office for the Status of Women, Australia http://ofw.facs.gov.au/
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Guidelines for the Analysis of Gender and Health http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/hsr/GG-1.html
Journals
Journals that regularly publish gender competent medical and public health research:
The Journal of Gender-specific Medicine http://www.gendermedjournal.com/
British Medical Journal http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/
New England Journal of Medicine http://content.nejm.org/
Journal of the American College of Surgeons http://www.facs.org/jacs/index.html
Medical Education http://www.med-ed-online.org/
Academic Medicine http://www.academicmedicine.org/
International Journal for Equity in Health http://www.equityhealthj.com/home
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts http://www.tandf.co.uk/swa
Journal of Gender Studies http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09589236.asp
Rural and Remote Health http://rrh.deakin.edu.au/
National Library of Medicine (USA) (for free Medline searches) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
UN & WHO
World Health Organisation (WHO) http://www.who.int/en
WHO Gender and Health Technical Paper 1998 Reference WHO/FRH/WHD/98.16 http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/WHD_98_16_gender_and_health_technical_paper/WHD_98_16_table_of_contents_en.html
WHO Gender Links http://www.who.int/gender/links/en
United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ecosoc/index.html
UN Expert Group Meeting on Women and Health http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/papers1.htm
Women's Fund At The United Nations (UNIFEM) http://www.unifem.undp.org/
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