IMPACT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS ON WOMEN’S WELL-BEING

The existing social cleavages based on class, caste, gender, religion, and ethnicity have differential impact on health. Our paper focuses on how health status reflects gender imbalance both in traditional and complex societies, in developing and developed countries. The correlation between gender and health status is intricate and contentious, thus our aim is to investigate it, highlighting why and where women’s social status is low, also their health conditions, compared to the male ones, and how they are threatened by a long series of social and environmental factors. In order to prove such assumption we use different case studies concerning malnutrition, complications with pregnancies and Sexual Transmitted Diseases (STDs), short and long-term consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), as well as restricted access to modern health care. These issues affect women in different ways depending on their social and economic status, but also on the area where they live (developing/developed; rural/urban; and so on). Furthermore, they allow us to move from local to global in the age of globalisation and mediatisation. Our paper presents a range of data gathered mainly through secondary sources giving evidence of the fact that health risk factors are more gender biased against women

Daniela Salvucci, Donne pastore, gauchos e figli del vento: Ecologie andine e reti di parentela nel nord ovest argentino, Padova, CLEUP, 2016, pp. 262

Book review of Daniela Salvucci, Donne pastore, gauchos e figli del vento: Ecologie andine e reti di parentela nel nord ovest argentino, Padova, CLEUP, 2016, pp. 262.Recensione di Daniela Salvucci, Donne pastore, gauchos e figli del vento: Ecologie andine e reti di parentela nel nord ovest argentino, Padova, CLEUP, 2016, pp. 262

Le incognite demografiche nel Corno d'Africa

In the last decade, European considerations and narratives about the Horn of Africa have been conveyed by the desire to contain the mobility that characterizes the region. However, a more inclusive and less Eurocentric analysis would lead to comprise - and therefore to discuss - the role played by the population growth rates in the different countries of the region in terms of stability and security, potentiality and risk. With this in mind, the family planning programs implemented to control fertility engage local governments, often in partnership with international donors, in long-term challenges. The positive outcomes of such programs are partial, and a stronger action to reach the “demographic peripheries”, where the services and the control of the state diminish, should be implemented. Indeed, the region is facing an interesting population age structure that opens the possibility of a demographic dividend. Nevertheless, it is the management of the population growth, even before mobility control, that may determine, together with an investment in human capital, the positive consequences offered by the demographic bonus, whose potential is influenced by the political, socio-cultural and environmental context.In the last decade, European considerations and narratives about the Horn of Africa have been conveyed by the desire to contain the mobility that characterizes the region. However, a more inclusive and less Eurocentric analysis would lead to comprise - and therefore to discuss - the role played by the population growth rates in the different countries of the region in terms of stability and security, potentiality and risk. With this in mind, the family planning programs implemented to control fertility engage local governments, often in partnership with international donors, in long-term challenges. The positive outcomes of such programs are partial, and a stronger action to reach the “demographic peripheries”, where the services and the control of the state diminish, should be implemented. Indeed, the region is facing an interesting population age structure that opens the possibility of a demographic dividend. Nevertheless, it is the management of the population growth, even before mobility control, that may determine, together with an investment in human capital, the positive consequences offered by the demographic bonus, whose potential is influenced by the political, socio-cultural and environmental context