International Women's Health and Human Rights
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Approx. 58 hours to complete
Course Summary
This course explores the intersection of women's health and human rights, examining health from a human rights perspective and exploring the various ways in which gender affects health outcomes. Students will learn about the social determinants of health, the politics of reproductive health, and the challenges women face in accessing healthcare services.Key Learning Points
- Understand the relationship between women's health and human rights
- Explore the social determinants of health and how they affect women's health outcomes
- Examine the politics of reproductive health and the challenges women face in accessing healthcare services
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- USA: $50,000 - $75,000
- India: ₹5,00,000 - ₹7,50,000
- Spain: €25,000 - €35,000
- USA: $50,000 - $75,000
- India: ₹5,00,000 - ₹7,50,000
- Spain: €25,000 - €35,000
- USA: $40,000 - $60,000
- India: ₹3,00,000 - ₹5,00,000
- Spain: €20,000 - €30,000
- USA: $50,000 - $75,000
- India: ₹5,00,000 - ₹7,50,000
- Spain: €25,000 - €35,000
- USA: $40,000 - $60,000
- India: ₹3,00,000 - ₹5,00,000
- Spain: €20,000 - €30,000
- USA: $70,000 - $100,000
- India: ₹10,00,000 - ₹15,00,000
- Spain: €40,000 - €60,000
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the relationship between women's health and human rights
- Gain knowledge of the social determinants of health and how they impact women's health outcomes
- Examine the challenges women face in accessing healthcare services
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- No prerequisites required
- Basic understanding of healthcare and human rights recommended
Course Difficulty Level
IntermediateCourse Format
- Online self-paced course
- Video lectures
- Interactive quizzes and assignments
Similar Courses
- Gender, Health, and Rights
- Reproductive Health
Related Education Paths
Notable People in This Field
- Co-founder of Partners In Health
- Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Related Books
Description
This course focuses on women’s health and human rights issues from infancy through old age, including information about positive interventions relating to those issues. Learners are encouraged to interact with each other through interactive discussions.
Outline
- Introduction
- Welcome to the Course
- Welcome!
- Who we are
- Our Textbook
- Assignments
- Complete a brief pre-course survey
- What resources are available to you?
- Visit internationalwomenshealth.org
- Sharing your work
- Create a local group
- Complete the survey
- Women's Rights = Human Rights
- Why do we take a human rights lens?
- Akila Radhakrishnan on Women & Human Rights
- Helen Stacy on Women's Health, Human Rights, and International Law
- Son Preference & Demography
- Son Preference Conclusion
- Week 1 Final Remarks
- About this Module
- Women's Health, Poverty and Rights [Textbook]
- About Akila Radhakrishnan
- About Helen Stacy
- (optional) Additional Resources
- WHO: Women and Health - Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda
- [Optional] We Women Worry a Lot about our Husbands (Ghana)
- A Deadly Preference
- Check Your Learning: Women's Rights = Human Rights
- Check Your Learning: A Deadly Preference
- Education
- Introduction to Education
- Lynn Murphy on "Learning vs. Schooling"
- Professor Wu Qing from China
- Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg from Kenya
- Week 2 Final Remarks
- About this Module
- Chapter 3. Childhood: the Hope of Education and the Persistence of Discrimination
- (optional) Additional Resources
- New Lessons: the Power of Educating Adolescent Girls
- (optional) Additional Resources on Girls' Education
- What Works in Girls’ Education
- About Lynn Murphy
- About Wu Qing
- About Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Check Your Learning: Education
- Childhood & Adolescence: Female Genital Mutilation
- Female Genital Mutilation
- UNICEF: Speaking out on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- Isha Daramy on FGM in Sierra Leone
- UNICEF: FGM in Côte d'Ivoire
- Into a New World: Young Women's Sexual and Reproductive Lives
- About this Module
- A Violent Practice: Female Genital Mutilation [Textbook]
- World Health Organization
- UNICEF
- (optional) UNICEF Data
- Female Genital Mutilation: Guide to Laws and Policies
- Introduction to FGM in Sierra Leone
- [Optional] Cultural Perspective on FGM
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Check Your Learning: Female Genital Mutilation
- Check-in on FGM
- Childhood & Adolescence: HIV/AIDS
- Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS
- Dr. Gene Richardson on Gender & HIV/AIDS
- Why South Africa?
- What is 'structural violence'?
- Changing Paradigms
- About TeachAIDS
- TeachAIDS India
- Orphans in Africa
- About this Module
- Adolescence, Change & Vulnerability [Textbook]
- Women, Poverty, and AIDS
- Women Are Not Just Transmitters
- About Dr. Gene Richardson (Stanford)
- (optional) Additional Resources
- About TeachAIDS
- About G.R.A.C.E
- (optional) Additional Resources
- About this Quiz
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Check Your Learning: (Practice Quiz) HIV/AIDS
- HIV/AIDS
- Reproductive Health
- Introduction to Reproductive Health
- Dr. Caitilin Gerdts on Reproductive Health
- Unwanted Pregnancy, Contraception, and Abortion
- Safe abortion in Nepal - a success story
- Why Did Mrs. X Die?, Retold
- Final Remarks on Sexual Health
- About this Module
- Why Child Marriage Persists
- Adolescent Pregnancy and Its Outcomes Across Countries
- About Dr. Caitlin Gerdts (UCSF)
- The Maternity Death Road: Reproductive and Sexual Health [Textbook]
- Spiraling Discourses of Reproductive and Sexual Rights
- Activism for Sexual and Reproductive Rights
- Advancing women's reproductive and sexual health rights: Using the International Human Rights system
- (optional) Additional Resources
- About Ipas
- Outcomes in Nepal
- READINGS ON CERVICAL CANCER & HPV
- Lesbians, Health and Human Rights
- The Maternity Death Road
- (optional) "Birth of a Surgeon" documentary film (Mozambique)
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Check Your Learning: Reproductive Health
- Engage Your Community - Assignment #1
- Engage Your Community - Assignment #1
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Violence Against Women in the Home and Community
- Violence Against Women
- Jacqueline Pitanguy on Violence Against Women
- From Fear to Freedom
- About this Module
- "Violence against Women: Abuse or Terrorism?" [Textbook]
- WHO: Intimate partner and sexual violence against women
- (optional) Additional Resources
- About Jacqueline Pitanguy (Brazil)
- WHO: Going in Depth
- (Optional) Reflections on Violence, Subordination & Sexual Control (India)
- About the Film
- (Optional) Survey
- About the Women's Learning Partnership
- Impacts on Empowerment (Mexico)
- An Obstacle to Development (Global)
- WHO: Primary prevention strategies
- Ending Violence Against Women
- Conclusion
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Check Your Learning: Violence Against Women
- Women in War and Refugee Settings
- War & Refugee Settings
- LGBTI Refugees
- LGBIT Refugees (bonus)
- Zainab Bangura
- Marjan Sax on Refugees in Europe
- Final Remarks on Women in War and Refugee Settings
- About this Module
- Women Caught in Conflict and Refugee Situations [Textbook]
- Defining "What is a refugee?"
- Female refugees
- (optional) Additional Resources on "Rape as a Weapon of War"
- About Tiela Chalmers
- War and the Health of Women
- Forced Evictions in Situations of Armed Conflict (Middle East)
- Women, Violence and War (Balkans)
- About UN Special Representative Zainab Bangura
- (optional) Additional Resources
- About Marjan Sax
- About the Series "Women, War, and Peace" (2011)
- (optional) Film: "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Optional Reading Quiz
- Check Your Learning: Women in War and Refugee Settings
- Women's Quest to Escape Poverty: Work & Economic Empowerment
- Women in Poverty
- Violeta Krasnic on Women and Work
- The Global Gender Gap
- Violeta's Comments on the Video
- About this Module
- Laboring in a Globalized World
- UN WOMEN: Facts & Figures on Economic Empowerment
- (optional) Additional Resources
- About Violeta Krasnic
- The Global Gender Gap
- UN WOMEN: Decent Work and Women's Economic Empowerment
- UNDP: "Valuing Women's Work"
- UN Special Rapporteur: Unpaid Care Work and Women's Human Rights
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Check Your Learning: Women's Work and Economic Empowerment
- Women's Quest to Escape Poverty: Sex Work & Sex Trafficking
- Introduction to Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
- Katherine Jolluck on Human Trafficking
- Voluntary & Involuntary Sex Work
- About this Module
- Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
- About Katherine Jolluck
- Trading women into sex and slavery
- International Trafficking in Women in the United States
- Women in the Sex Trade in Calcutta (India)
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Trading women into sex and slavery
- International Trafficking in Women in the United States
- Women in the Sex Trade in Calcutta (India)
- Check Your Learning: Sex Work and Sex Trafficking
- Women, Aging, and End of Life
- Introduction to Women Aging
- Dr. Carol Hutner Winograd on Aging and Demographic Change
- Final Remarks
- About this Module
- Aging in a Man's World [Textbook]
- UN WOMEN: Between Gender & Aging
- About Dr. Carol Hutner Winograd (Stanford)
- (optional) Additional Resources
- Aging in a Gendered World & Special Problems in Developing Countries
- Who Cares for the Caregivers?
- Dying and Death
- Grandmother Power
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Aging in a Gendered World & Special Problems in Developing Countries
- Who cares for the caregivers?
- Check Your Learning: Women, Aging and End of Life
- Engage Your Community - Assignment #2
- Engage Your Community - Assignment #2
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Choosing Priorities, Making a Difference
- Women's Rights - Looking Back, Looking Ahead
- Dr. Iman Bibars (Egypt)
- Ana MarÃa EnrÃquez (Colombia)
- Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro (Kenya)
- Anne Firth Murray (New Zealand)
- About this Module
- About Dr. Iman Bibars (Egypt)
- Turning the World Right-side Up [Textbook]
- About Ana MarÃa EnrÃquez (Colombia)
- How to Proceed from Concept to Action
- About Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro (Kenya)
- Women's Political Action (India)
- About Anne Firth Murray
- (optional) Add to Your Portfolio
- Post-Course Survey
- Our alumni community: internationalwomenshealth.org
- Check Your Learning: Choosing Priorities, Making a Difference
Summary of User Reviews
Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
The course provides a comprehensive understanding of women's health and human rights issues.Pros from User Reviews
- Well-structured and informative course content
- Engaging and knowledgeable instructors
- Practical applications and case studies provided
- Interactive and collaborative learning environment
- Flexible schedule and self-paced learning
Cons from User Reviews
- Limited focus on cultural and regional differences
- Some technical issues with the online platform
- Lack of personalized feedback from instructors
- Heavy workload and time-consuming assignments
- Not suitable for beginners or those without prior knowledge in the subject area
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