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Jody Heymann
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 167
Citations - 5681
Jody Heymann is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Sick leave. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 148 publications receiving 4359 citations. Previous affiliations of Jody Heymann include Montreal Chest Institute & University of British Columbia.
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Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development
Linda Richter,Bernadette Daelmans,Joan Lombardi,Jody Heymann,Florencia López Bóo,Jere R. Behrman,Chunling Lu,Jane E. Lucas,Rafael Pérez-Escamilla,Tarun Dua,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Karin Stenberg,Paul Gertler,Gary L. Darmstadt +13 more
TL;DR: New analyses show that the burden of poor development is higher than estimated, taking into account additional risk factors, and national programmes are needed to support early childhood development.
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Gender inequality and restrictive gender norms: framing the challenges to health
Lori Heise,Margaret E. Greene,Neisha Opper,Maria Stavropoulou,Caroline Harper,Marcos Nascimento,Debrework Zewdie,Gary L. Darmstadt,Margaret Eleanor Greene,Sarah Hawkes,Sarah Henry,Jody Heymann,Jeni Klugman,Ruth Levine,Anita Raj,Geeta Rao Gupta +15 more
TL;DR: This Series paper raises the parallel question of whether discrimination based on gender likewise becomes embodied, with negative consequences for health, as well as how gender-biased health research and health-care systems reinforce and reproduce gender inequalities, with serious implications for health.
The Widening Gap: Why America's Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done about It.
TL;DR: This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups.
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Gender norms and health: insights from global survey data
Ann M. Weber,Beniamino Cislaghi,Valerie Meausoone,Safa Abdalla,Iván Mejía-Guevara,Pooja Loftus,Emma Hallgren,Ilana Seff,Lindsay Stark,Cesar G. Victora,Romina Buffarini,Aluísio J D Barros,Benjamin W. Domingue,Devika Bhushan,Ribhav Gupta,Jason M. Nagata,Holly B. Shakya,Linda Richter,Shane A. Norris,Thoai D. Ngo,Sophia Chae,Nicole Haberland,Katharine McCarthy,Mark R. Cullen,Gary L. Darmstadt,Margaret E. Greene,Sarah Hawkes,Lori Heise,Sarah Henry,Jody Heymann,Jeni Klugman,Ruth Levine,Anita Raj,Geeta Rao Gupta +33 more
TL;DR: Evidence that gender norms impact the health of women and men across life stages, health sectors, and world regions is generated and recommendations for optimising and advancing research on the health impacts of gender norms are made.
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Disrupting gender norms in health systems: making the case for change
Katherine Hay,Lotus McDougal,Valerie Percival,Sarah Henry,Jeni Klugman,Jeni Klugman,Haja Wurie,Joanna Raven,Fortunate Shabalala,Rebecca Fielding-Miller,Arnab Dey,Nabamallika Dehingia,Rosemary Morgan,Yamini Atmavilas,Niranjan Saggurti,Jennifer Yore,Elena Blokhina,Rumana Huque,Edwine Barasa,Nandita Bhan,Chandani Kharel,Jay G. Silverman,Anita Raj,Gary L. Darmstadt,Margaret E. Greene,Sarah Hawkes,Lori Heise,Jody Heymann,Ruth Levine,Geeta Rao Gupta +29 more
TL;DR: It is found that institutional support and respect of nurses improves quality of care, and that women's empowerment collectives can increase health-care access and provider responsiveness and propose action to systematically identify and address restrictive gender norms and gender inequalities in health systems.