Towards a better tomorrow: addressing intersectional gender power relations to eradicate inequities in maternal health.

ABSTRACT: An equity lens to maternal health has typically focused on assessing the differences in coverage and use of healthcare services and critical interventions. While this approach is important, we argue that healthcare experiences, dignity, rights, justice, and well-being are fundamental components of high quality and person-centred maternal healthcare that must also be considered. Looking at differences across one dimension alone does not reflect how fundamental drivers of maternal health inequities-including racism, ethnic or caste-based discrimination, and gendered power relations-operate. In this paper, we describe how using an intersectionality approach to maternal health can illuminate how power and privilege (and conversely oppression and exclusion) intersect and drive inequities. We pr

SUBMITTER: Bohren MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10837533 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature