Resumen

GONZALEZ MORENO, María Cristina. Ecohealth: A gender sensitive outlook. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.2, suppl., pp.46-54. ISSN 1690-3293.

To recognize the interdependence between human health and the environment from the perspective of ecohealth, involves a look from the complexity which incorporate the gender category, has represented an epistemological rupture with the universalizing essentialism. The article is divided into three major sections. A first development, which attempts to make visible as it has been the construction of the feminine as an expression of social and sexual division of work impacting relations of knowledge- power -submission and thus, differential forms of living, sick, dying women and their relationships with the ecosystem. The World Health Organization, points out that women are which support larger the impact of climate change and its effects on health, representing almost all of the global deaths from preventable diseases. A second aspect that has to do with the challenges of the approach of eco health, in relation to the construction of knowledge, involving a look ecosystem, transdisciplinary social, gender equity and the community actively participating. Finally, some key moments which allow to specify how have been the advances that have been achieved thanks to the feminist movement, who have been insisting on the need to empower women in such a way that the State and the health sector, to become aware of their right to participate in public affairs.

Palabras clave : Gender; ecohealth; interdiscipline; health- environment.