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5 Health & Hum. Rts. 46 (2000-2001)
Evaluating the Role of Gender Inequalities and Rights Violations in Women's Mental Health

handle is hein.journals/harhrj5 and id is 52 raw text is: Abstract This article examines the concept of women's mental health articulated as a human right in international documents and the current public health concern regarding the contribution of depressive and related anxiety disor- ders-which disproportionately affect women-to the global health burden. There is a growing awareness, supported by health research and accepted in recent international documents such as the Beijing Platform for Action, that gender inequalities and rights violations such as economic depen- dence, lack of decision-making power, conflicting gender roles, dispropor- tionate domestic responsibilities, and violence are closely linked to mental health problems of women. The article argues that governments and inter- national agencies, as well as women's health and rights advocates, must place more emphasis on women's mental health and its relationship to underlying gender discrimination and rights violations. Cet article examine le concept de sante mentale des femmes exprime comme droit fondamental dans les documents internationaux et la preoc- cupation actuelle de sante publique concernant la contribution des troubles de depression et d'angoisse - qui affectent de fa~on disproportionnee les femmes - la charge de la sante globale. 11 existe une conscience grandis- sante, soutenue par la recherche et acceptee dans les documents interna- tionaux recents (Plate-forme d'Action de Beijing), que les inegalites entre les sexes et les violations de droits telles que la dependance economique, le manque de prise de decision, la contradiction des r6les entre les hommes et les femmes, la disproportion des responsabilites domestiques et la violence, sont fortement liees aux problemes de sante mentale des femmes. L'article affirme que les gouvernements et les agences internationales, de meme que les defenseurs de la sante et des droits des femmes, doivent mettre davan- tage l'accent sur la sante mentale des femmes et sa relation a la discrimi- nation sous-jacente entre les sexes et aux violations de droits. En este articulo se examina el concepto de la salud mental de la mujer declarado como un derecho humano en documentos internacionales y la preocupacion actual por parte de las entidades de salud piblica en cuanto a la contribucion a la carga mundial sobre la salud debida a desordenes depresivos y de ansiedad relacionados, que afectan a la mu/er de manera desproporcionada. Hay una creciente conciencia, impulsada por la investi- gacion en salud y reconocida en documentos internacionales recientes tales como la Plataforma de Accion de Beijing, en que las desigualdades de genero y las violacion de los derechos tales como la dependencia economi- ca, falta de poder en la toma de decisiones, papeles conflictivos de los generos, responsabilidades domesticas desproporcionadas y la violencia, se encuentran intimamente ligados a los problemas de salud mental de la mu/er. En el articulo se argumenta que los gobiernos y las agencias interna- cionales, asi como los defensores de la salud y de los derechos de la muer, deben poner mayor enfasis en la salud mental de la mu/er y en su relaci6n con la discriminacion latente de genero y la violacion de los derechos. Vol. 5 No. 1

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