Public Policy, Intersectionality, and Healthy Cities

Producción CyT

Capítulo de Libro

Autoría

Verdonk, Petra ; van Marlen, Josefien ; TUMAS, NATALIA ; van Valkengoed, Irene

Fecha

2024

Editorial y Lugar de Edición

Dutch Society Gender & Health, Amsterdam UMC

Libro

Coloring Connections: Researching Gender, Intersectionality, and Health in the Climate Crisis (pp. 80-89)
Dutch Society Gender & Health, Amsterdam UMC

ISBN

0-1234-5678-9

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Public policy focuses on identifying problems, determining their solvability, exploring potential solutions, assessing the costs of these solutions, and evaluating their effectiveness. Health care policy pertains to decisions, plans, and actions within the health sector aimed at achieving specific health care goals, concentrating on the health system. Public health policy encompasses regulations, laws, and policies implemented in society to promote well-being and to ascertain that health-specif... Public policy focuses on identifying problems, determining their solvability, exploring potential solutions, assessing the costs of these solutions, and evaluating their effectiveness. Health care policy pertains to decisions, plans, and actions within the health sector aimed at achieving specific health care goals, concentrating on the health system. Public health policy encompasses regulations, laws, and policies implemented in society to promote well-being and to ascertain that health-specific goals are met. Additionally, a wide range of public policy issues influences health determinants, such as the regulation of natural resources, education, agriculture, and transportation. The concept of “healthy cities” describes a process rather than a static state. It involves a “commitment to health”, “a continuous striving to improve physical and social environments”, and “expanding community resources that enable people to support one another”. Cities continuously confront emergencies attributed to among other issues gender- and race-based violence, social inequities, poverty, crises of care, epidemics or pandemics, and extreme weather events related to the climate crisis. A healthy city is defined as “a place to deliver for the people as well as for the planet”. Consequently, cities are increasingly viewed as sites for solutions, rather than merely as locations where problems originate. In this chapter we showcase three examples of interdisciplinary policy research. In these examples, frameworks that incorporate gender and intersectional approaches and center equity are applied to studying public policies: (I) an Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis of an urban planning Participatory Action Research project in Barcelona, which, while not explicitly focusing on health, demonstrates health benefits from the implemented policies (Amorim-Maia et al., 2022); (II) a comparative case study policy analysis in Spain and Austria examining Gender Mainstreaming and intersectional approaches in policy documents (Charafi, 2023); and (III) a systematic review on gender and Intersecting Inequalities in climate change adaptation policy studies (Djoudi et al., 2016).

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CITIESINTERSECTIONALITYPUBLIC POLICYHEALTH