5 episodes
Unburdened DAI
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- Government
We all know health issues weigh us down.
And when we think about health, we probably think about our individual health issues and wellbeing, or a disease we’ve had, or past surgery, or some other personal burden.
But in fact, much of what ails us is connected with the world around us. Where we live, our environment, our communities, our relationships—even our social status deeply affects our health and wellbeing, in many cases including our life expectancy.
Bad environments, poor relationships, marginalization, and poverty weigh down our health and shape our lives. Have you ever felt crippled by financial instability or poverty? Choked by polluted air or the garbage on your streets? Have you been effectively cut off from health services because of your race, class, or gender? Perhaps you have had to flee your home because of conflict or violence…
What can we do about these things? How can we collectively live healthier lives and alleviate some of these factors weighing on our health? Join us this October as we kick off Unburdened, DAI’s podcast about what it really takes to shape a healthier, more livable world.
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Where do we go from here?
What’s next and where do we go from here? As development practitioners and public health professionals, how do we make our work more gender equal?
- Wild Network: https://www.wildleadershipforum.org/ -
Can better reproductive health make us more equal?
How society treats a woman during pregnancy and childbirth is a signal of women’s status in society. Do we value maternal health as integral to the health of our communities?
- DHS Survey Nigeria 2008: https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-fr222-dhs-final-reports.cfm
- DHS Survey Nigeria 2013: https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-fr293-dhs-final-reports.cfm -
Can Female Politicians Make us Healthier?
For a long time, women in politics wasn’t a thing. People like Merkel, Marin, May, Sirleaf, and Arden have given us a vision for women as decision makers. Will more female politicians in positions of power make our societies healthier?
- Maternal Mortality & Political Participation Reserach:
https://docs.iza.org/dp11590.pdf
- Yentl Syndrome: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199107253250408
- Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/CSW/PFA_E_Final_WEB.pdf
- Consolidating Democracy in Pakistan: https://www.dai.com/our-work/projects/pakistan-consolidating-democracy-in-pakistan-cdip
- DHS Survey Pakistan 2012-13: https://www.biomedcentral.com/search?query=author%23Khalifa%20Elmusharaf
-DHS Survey Pakistan 2017-18: https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR354/FR354.pdf -
Why aren’t men and women equal?
If there’s a gap between men and women, how do we know that empirically? How can we measure it? And what stands in the way of men and women being more equal?
- The most recent GII was published in the 2021 Human Development Index report, p.291 https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/global-report-document/hdr2021-22pdf_1.pdf
- Gender & Social Norms Index: https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/hdperspectivesgsnipdf_1.pdf -
Can Gender Equality Make Us Healthier?
Most of us agree that equality is a good thing, but is there more than a moral argument for making our societies more equal? Can gender equality actually make our communities and countries healthier?
- Violence Against Women During COVID-19, UN Women: https://data.unwomen.org/publications/vaw-rga
- World Inequality Report, 2022, from the World Inequality Lab: https://wir2022.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2022/03/0098-21_WIL_RIM_RAPPORT_A4.pdf
- Association between gender inequality and population-level health outcomes: Panel data analysis of organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, the Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00331-X/fulltext
The GINI Index, World Bank: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI