• Login
    View Item 
    •   EI Resource Hub
    • 1. Health Equity
    • 1.01 Frameworks & Analysis
    • 1.01.05 Intersectionality
    • View Item
    •   EI Resource Hub
    • 1. Health Equity
    • 1.01 Frameworks & Analysis
    • 1.01.05 Intersectionality
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of EI Resource HubCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateBy Submit DateResource TypesAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateBy Submit DateResource TypesAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    Login

    10 Best resources on… intersectionality with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries

    Larson, Elizabeth
    George, Asha
    Morgan, Rosemary
    Poteat, Tonia
    2016-10-01
    Health Policy and Planning

    Intersectionality has emerged as an important framework for understanding and responding to health inequities by making visible the fluid and interconnected structures of power that create them. It promotes an understanding of the dynamic nature of the privileges and disadvantages that permeate health systems and affect health. It considers the interaction of different social stratifiers (e.g. ‘race’/ ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, class, sexuality, geography, age, disability/ability, migration status, religion) and the power structures that underpin them at multiple levels. In doing so, it is a departure from previous health inequalities research that looked at these forms of social stratification in isolation from one another or in an additive manner. Despite its potential use and long history in other disciplines, intersectionality is uncommonly used in health systems research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To orient readers to intersectionality theory and research, we first define intersectionality and describe its role in public health, and then we review resources on intersectionality. We found that applications in public health mostly increased after 2009, with only 14 out of 86 articles focused on LMICs. To arrive at 10 best resources, we selected articles based on the proportion of the article that was devoted to intersectionality, the strength of the intersectionality analysis, and its relevance to LMICs. The first four resources explain intersectionality as a methodology. The subsequent six articles apply intersectionality to research in LMIC with quantitative and qualitative analysis. We provide examples from India, Swaziland, Uganda and Mexico. Topics for the studies range from HIV, violence and sexual abuse to immunization and the use of health entitlements. Through these 10 resources, we hope to spark interest and open a needed conversation on the importance and use of intersectional analysis in LMICs as part of understanding people-centred health systems.

    Intersectionality
    Inequalities
    Race
    Gender
    Class
    Sexual orientation
    journalArticle
    964-969 p.
    © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserve
    https://resources.equityinitiative.org/handle/ei/434
    Show full item record
    2016 HPP 10 Best resources on intersectionality with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries.pdf

    This item appears in the following Collection(s)

    Collections
    • 1.01.05 Intersectionality [5]

    DISCOVER

    WHO WE ARE

    WHAT WE DO

    HOW TO APPLY

    COMMUNITY

    OUR FELLOWS

    OUR NEWS

    HOW TO JOIN

    CONTACT US

    BANGKOK

    CMB USA

    © The Equity Initiative is a program of CMB Foundation. Copyright 2016 All rights reserved.

    ‹›×