Final Report.CDR - National Institute of health and family welfare

PROCEEDINGS OF TRAINING SESSIONS
Session: Concept of Gender Development and Main-streaming in
health sector
Resource Person: Dr. Poonam Khattar, NIHFW, and Dr. Jagdish Kaur,
Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health & Family
Welfare, Government of India.
Sessional Objectives
Explain meaning of different terminologies: gender, unequal
gender relations, gender equity, gender disparities, gender
inequalities, gender mainstreaming, gender sensitive and
gender balance.
Describe social, economic and political perspectives of
development in relation to gender equity.
Identify and describe importance of gender equity issues in
relation to economic and human development of respective
states
Dr. Poonam Khattar explained in brief the different terminologies used in the
context of gender especially in an Indian context. Dr. Jagdish Kaur started by
neglect of female child, the health problems of women throughout the life till
they become old. She discussed the social and economic dependence in the
context of family. The gender relations vary from place to place and from one
community to the other. There is an emerging need to provide community
geriatric care to the elderly women. The plight of abandoned or mentally ill
Participants in the training session
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