Overview
- Unique interdisciplinary group of policy-makers, advocates, and researchers worked together to systematically consider how gender impacts HIV/STI spread in China
- The underappreciated role of how surplus men could impact HIV spread in China is quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed
- Little empiric data exist regarding the connection between gender inequality and the spread of HIV/AIDS
Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 22)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
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Chinese Population Dynamics and HIV/STD Risk
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China’s Surplus Males and HIV/STD
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HIV/STD Risk in China for Males and Females
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Commercial SexWorker Policies and the Law
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About this book
China’s concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat. Social factors relating to gender and gender inequality exacerbate the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI) in China. A better understanding of the proximate social determinants of HIV related to gender will be crucial to effectively curbing HIV and other STIs in China. Aspects of China’s governance - including administrative procedures, the developing legal system, social institutions, and the public health infrastructure – are instrumental in shaping strategies and responses to HIV. International studies suggest that women who are more economically and socially vulnerable may also have a greater risk of HIV infection, yet few initiatives have focused on discrete areas where achievable and sustainable gender policy measures could be linked to the public health response. This study presents perspectives ranging from criminology to social psychology to better understand how gender perspectives can inform HIV policy in the context of China.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender Policy and HIV in China
Book Subtitle: Catalyzing Policy Change
Editors: Dudley L. Poston, Joseph Tucker, Qiang Ren, Baochang Gu, Xiaoying Zheng, Stephanie Wang, Chris Russell
Series Title: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9900-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9899-4Published: 28 May 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8219-0Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9900-7Published: 08 May 2009
Series ISSN: 1877-2560
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 226
Topics: Demography, Public Health, Infectious Diseases, Sexual Behavior, Sociology, general, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention