THE PATHWAYS MANIFESTO
What’s needed for everyone in the world to have an equal chance of living well? Gendered Health Pathways, and its ability to reimagine data, gives us the opportunity to answer this together. With a more complete and connected view of our health journeys, we can reveal the disparities, remedy the inequalities and begin to realise better health and wellbeing for all. Will you join us?
Reimagine data
- Demonstrate the power of data when it’s collected and understood in a more complete and connected way
- Make data more accessible and useable for public policymakers right through to community changemakers, as a resource for advocacy, action and accountability for all
- Catalyse a more connected approach to collecting data and make useful connections between sex and health (biology) and gender and health (sociology), making data more informative, inclusive and impactful
Reveal & remedy inequalities
- Reveal inequalities along the health pathway, as well as the dangerous data gaps — to identify who is falling away at each point of the health pathway, and pinpoint strategic intervention
- Stimulate discussion and deeper research on gender-driven power structures and hidden inequalities influencing people’s health — to redress gaps not only in prevention and care, but also in wider public policy in relation to the health-related sustainable development goal (SDG) targets
- Explore opportunities for national health policies to be tailored, targeted and gender-responsive, so that they have the greatest possible positive impact on people’s health
- Empower countries and communities to drive social change for the people and causes they represent
What works?
Read about interventions that are already remedying gender inequalities along the health pathway.
Realise better health & wellbeing for all
- Test and develop new gender-responsive policy, at local, national and global levels
- Track and measure the outcomes and impact it’s having, refining policy and interventions to reflect the needs of society
- Co-create public policy for equal health, with all groups representing the communities and people it affects
JOIN US ON OUR JOURNEY
Co-create more pathways
We want to collaborate with health data communities to create additional pathway visualisations with sex-disaggregated data representing all countries, genders and age groups for the 20 leading causes of death.
Partner on an in-country pilot
We’re inviting ministries of health and public health schools to partner with us on in-country pilot schemes. Work with us to adapt the Pathways tool using your country’s own data-sets.
Help us develop a universal resource
Could you help us further develop Gendered Health Pathways as a resource for advocacy, action and accountability for all? One way we plan to do this is by creating an open-source version of the tool for users across health and gender communities globally to input their own data.
Catalyse conversations
Use Gendered Health Pathways, share our animation and explore our Pathways stories to stimulate discussion around how gender affects people’s journeys on the health pathway — and what we can do to remedy the inequalities. Also, follow our progress by signing up and joining us on social media.
PATHWAY STORIES
What can we learn when we look more closely at the deeply rooted differences dividing men’s and women’s journeys along the health pathway — from exposure to risks to rate of survival.
