INTERSECTIONALITY AND WOMEN’S HEALTH: CHARTING A PATH TO ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES

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Advances in Gender Research

ISSN: 1529-2126
Series editor(s): Professor Vasilikie Demos, Professor Marcia Segal

Subject Area: Sociology and Public Policy

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Title:	INTERSECTIONALITY AND WOMEN’S HEALTH: CHARTING A PATH TO ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES
Author(s):	Lynn Weber, Deborah Parra-Medina
Volume:	7 Editor(s): Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, and J.J. Kronenfeld ISBN: 978-0-76231-058-6 eISBN: 978-1-84950-239-9
Citation:	Lynn Weber, Deborah Parra-Medina (2003), INTERSECTIONALITY AND WOMEN’S HEALTH: CHARTING A PATH TO ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES, in Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, and J.J. Kronenfeld (ed.) Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine (Advances in Gender Research, Volume 7), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.181-230
DOI:	10.1016/S1529-2126(03)07006-1 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Extract:	Scholars and activists working both within and outside the massive health-related machinery of government and the private sector and within and outside communities of color address the same fundamental questions: Why do health disparities exist? Why have they persisted over such a long time? What can be done to significantly reduce or eliminate them?