Breaking barriers: Towards more gender-responsive and equitable health systems

Overview

This report draws attention to gender as a powerful determinant of health care access and outcomes. By analysing universal health coverage (UHC) indicators from a gender perspective, including indicators disaggregated by sex, the report exposes how people’s gender intersects with their socioeconomic backgrounds and other aspects of their identities and circumstances to produce health inequities. 

It shows how health systems and UHC policies, by increasing gender responsiveness, can improve equity and it recommends ways to incorporate gender in the UHC framework for monitoring country progress.