Reflections on the Future of Women's Health Research in a Comparative Context: Why More Than Sex and Gender Matters

Kazanjian, Arminée; Hankivsky, Olena

doi:10.1016/j.whi.2008.06.002

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Volume 18, Issue 5 , Pages 343-346, September 2008

Reflections on the Future of Women's Health Research in a Comparative Context:

Why More Than Sex and Gender Matters

Arminée Kazanjian, DrSoc
- Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Arminee Kazanjian, Dr Soc, is an internationally recognized Health Services Researcher whose work incorporates social epidemiology and health technology diffusion, social and cultural dimensions of care seeking and service provision, and health workforce policy. She is author and editor of two national multidisciplinary collaborative reports on women's health surveillance and the development and evaluation of appropriate indicators: “Women's health surveillance: a plan of action for Health Canada,” Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, 1999; and the “Women's Health Surveillance Report,” Canadian Population Health Initiative and Health Canada, 2003. Also, she is the guest editor/author of a special issue of International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 20:2 (2004), on “Health technologies and the life course of women.” Her current research includes equitable and quality cancer care for culturally diverse populations, gender and healthcare utilization, women's health indicators, immigrant health and health care utilization, and understanding rural health and its determinants.
- Correspondence to Arminee Kazanjian, DrSoc, The University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health, James Mather Building, 5804 Fairview Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3; Phone: 604-822-2772; Fax: 604-822-4994
Olena Hankivsky, PhD
- Associate Professor, Public Policy Program, Co-Director, Institute for Critical Studies in Gender and Health, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
- Olena Hankivsky, PhD, is recognized for her contributions in the use of theory (eg, intersectionality and care ethics) in research and policy applications. Her research has been published in journals such as Critical Public Health, Journal of Health and Social Policy, Critical Social Policy, International Journal of Health Services, and Policy and Society. She is also co-editor and leading contributing author of Women's Health in Canada: Critical Perspective on Theory and Policy (University of Toronto Press, 2007) which is the first text on women's health in Canada. Additionally she is the author of Social Policy and the Ethic of Care (University of British Columbia, 2004) and co-author of The Dome of Silence: Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport (2000, Fernwood & Zed Publications). In 2008, Dr. Hankivsky was awarded a Research Chair in New Perspectives in Gender and Health by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a Senior Scholar Career Award in Population Health by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Her research interests include social and health policy, gender mainstreaming, gender and sex-based analysis, health determinants, economic costing and violence against women.