TY - JOUR
T1 - Intersections between gender approaches, migration and health in Latin America and the Caribbean
T2 - a discussion based on a scoping review
AU - Cabieses, Baltica
AU - Velázquez, Benelli
AU - Blukacz, Alice
AU - Farante, Sofia
AU - Bojórquez, Ietza
AU - Mezones-Holguín, Edward
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s)
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Gender is a sociocultural construct that assigns forms of behaviour, power, and roles to individuals based on their sexual differentiation. There are multiple gender approaches that help distinguish risks, health conditions and behaviours related to the body, health-disease processes, and differential opportunities to access health care. Based on a scoping review of scientific and grey literature in LAC, we discuss existing understandings of international migrants’ health in LAC with a focus on gender approaches. Our discussion covers the following seven dimensions: gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health, barriers to healthcare services, and emerging patterns of health and healthcare among men and LGBTIQA+. The evidence indicates the urgent need to adopt gender approaches when addressing migrant and refugee health in LAC. Including gender approaches into ongoing strategies for promoting and protecting the health and rights of migrants and refugees is a pending challenge in the region.
AB - Gender is a sociocultural construct that assigns forms of behaviour, power, and roles to individuals based on their sexual differentiation. There are multiple gender approaches that help distinguish risks, health conditions and behaviours related to the body, health-disease processes, and differential opportunities to access health care. Based on a scoping review of scientific and grey literature in LAC, we discuss existing understandings of international migrants’ health in LAC with a focus on gender approaches. Our discussion covers the following seven dimensions: gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health, barriers to healthcare services, and emerging patterns of health and healthcare among men and LGBTIQA+. The evidence indicates the urgent need to adopt gender approaches when addressing migrant and refugee health in LAC. Including gender approaches into ongoing strategies for promoting and protecting the health and rights of migrants and refugees is a pending challenge in the region.
KW - Gender
KW - Health
KW - Latin America and the Caribbean
KW - Migration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85167974178&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100538
DO - 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100538
M3 - Artículo de revisión
AN - SCOPUS:85167974178
SN - 2667-193X
JO - Lancet Regional Health - Americas
JF - Lancet Regional Health - Americas
M1 - 100538
ER -