Lori Heise

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.

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.

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.

TL;DR: An agenda for action to reduce gender inequality and shift gender norms for improved health outcomes is proposed, calling on leaders in national governments, global health institutions, civil society organisations, academic settings, and the corporate sector to focus on health outcomes and engage actors across sectors to achieve them.

TL;DR: Eight pitfalls that practitioners must avoid as they plan to integrate a social norms perspective in their interventions, as well as eight learnings that practitioners will develop greater understanding of what works to help people lead change in harmful norms within their contexts.