Gendered discrimination in the Australian health care system has a profound impact on all aspects of women’s health and wellbeing.
Delayed access to care, misdiagnosis and neglect caused by gendered discrimination can lead to medical trauma and poorer health outcomes.
This is especially the case for women facing intersectional discrimination.
In the lead up to the UN’s 2024 World Health Day, on Sunday 7 April, we are proud to launch a new policy brief Eliminating Gendered Health Discrimination.
This brief builds a deep understanding of how gendered discrimination operates in health care delivery and describes what it looks like and how it impacts health equity.
Eliminating gendered discrimination fits well with the theme for World Health Day: ‘My health, my right’, which advocates for the rights of ‘everyone, everywhere to have access to health services, education and information as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions, and freedom from discrimination.
This new policy brief highlights ways to boost the capacity of the health system and health care professionals to provide equitable care, which is free from gendered discrimination.
We argue that adhering to anti-discrimination practice is just as important for prevention action as preventing and treating disease.
Download and read the full brief on the Women’s Health Hub and please share widely with your networks: Policy Brief: Eliminating Gendered Health Discrimination – Australian Women’s Health Alliance (australianwomenshealth.org)
