Santé et inscription territoriale des populations - apports et enjeux autour des notions de genre, territoire et santé

Abstract

This special report of the RFST journal is linked to a one-day seminar held in January 2014 in Paris by the College international des sciences du territoire (CIST), area of work “health and territorial inclusion of populations”. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the aim of the seminar was to better understand the relationship between gender, territory and health. In geography and sociology, inequalities between men and women has been widely documented in terms of occupation, ownership or avoidance of space (private or public) or in terms of access to knowledge, power and resources. A lot of studies in the field of public health also show significant differences between men and women in terms of life expectancy, mortality, morbidity but also representation of health, and more generally health behaviors. But despite these observations, considerations on relationship between gender, territory and health still remain innovative. The contributions of this special report bring original insights by their disciplinary anchor and their own field research, and lead to two central questions: how differences between men and women in spatial practices reflect on their health and their health behaviors? And, what is the role of gender, among other determinants, in the health care pathways and the health of the population? The special reports of the RFST remain open permanently. It means that new texts will be added in the future and will provide answers to these questions and probably will submit new questions.

Keywords

• genre
• inégalités sociales et territoriales de santé