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Yale researchers dig into EHR use data – and gender differences

Yale researchers dig into electronic health record use data – and gender differences

June 17, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

While the shift to electronic health records (EHR) in the medical profession was supposed to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare for doctors and patients alike, many physicians have given the technology low grades. A new Yale study digs into the data on how physicians are using EHRs, including how time spent using the […]

Gender Matters - A Gender Analysis of Healthcare Workers%u2019 Experiences during COVID-19

Gender matters: A gender analysis of healthcare workers’ experiences during the first COVID-19 pandemic peak in England

March 22, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

COVID-19 arrived in the United Kingdom (UK) in February 2020, placing an unprecedented burden on the National Health Service (NHS). Literature from past epidemics and the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of using a gender lens when considering policy, experiences, and impacts of the disease. Researchers are increasingly examining the experiences of healthcare workers (HCWs), […]

A pandemia de COVID-19 e (os) as profissionais de saúde pública: uma perspectiva de gênero e raça sobre a linha de frente

January 16, 2021 No CommentsHeang-Lee

A discussão sobre as consequências da pandemia de COVID-19 tem sido acompanhada, também, de um forte debate sobre o exacerbamento de desigualdades estruturais no Brasil e no mundo. Enquanto a rápida disseminação da doença e o grande número de mortes demonstra que o vírus em si não discrimina quem será infectado, diferentes grupos sociais têm […]

COVID-19 pandemic and health professionals: gender and race on the front line

January 16, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The discussion on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has also been accompanied by a strong debate on the exacerbation of structural inequalities in Brazil and in the world. While the rapid spread of the disease and the large number of deaths demonstrate that the virus itself does not discriminate who will be infected, gender, […]

After six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

November 9, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

To mark the six months of Covid-19 in Brazil, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) has published a special edition of its Covid-19 Observatory Bulletin with an assessment of the pandemic that has been having effects on the health of populations and challenging science all over the world. Made by a multidisciplinary team of researchers of […]

BMJ Series: Women’s Health and Gender Inequalities

October 29, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on Women was a landmark global policy framework to promote the human rights of women and girls and gender equality. These were also identified as a prerequisite for women’s health and wellbeing. Over the past 25 years there has been important progress in several areas of women’s […]

COVID-19 and gender research in low- and middle-income countries

October 29, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Research on COVID-19 and the social, economic and health ramifications of this pandemic is rapidly emerging from many disciplines. Concerns about losses to gender equality and the gendered impacts of the pandemic have been raised from its early stages, and research is increasingly beginning to consider the role gender plays in these relationships. Gendered impacts […]

Gender and COVID-19 in Africa

October 7, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

In Africa, as in other settings pandemics and their resultant effects are not gender blind and have the potential to exponentially magnify existing gender inequalities and the plight of other vulnerable populations; such as those with disabilities, refugees, and internally displaced persons. This is especially the case for less-resourced countries where limited social protection measures […]

Community health workers reveal COVID-19 disaster in Brazil

July 17, 2020 No Commentsmaggie

Brazil has become one of the epicentres of the COVID-19 pandemic. The failure of President Jair Bolsonaro and his administration to recognise the severity of the pandemic is being compounded by the neglect of Brazil’s community health workers (CHWs). In Brazil, there have been no nationwide guidelines for primary health care services in the COVID-19 […]