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Gender and woman's health politics in Latino America: the case of the Peru

This study includes a presentation and analysis about the woman's problematic. It considers the woman social condition concording to the androgynors ideology of the society. Briefly it presents a historical evolution of the woman in accord with the gender analysis. It presents too, an analysis of the health and the public politics in relation to the woman in Latin America, mainly in Peru, since the Incanato period, justifying the motives of the formulation and implementation of the Family Planning Program, the Responsable Paternity Program and Child and Mother Atention Program. Finally, this study considers the importance of integral projects, programs and health politics and not only considering the women's reproduction.

Ideology; Gender; Family planning; Health politics


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