By the end of module one, Awareness, you will understand: - Why considering gender issues in health is important. - The concepts of gender equality, gender equity, and health equity. - The differences between sex and gender, and develop an understanding about how gender norms are constructed, maintained and reinforced. - Why and how gender and gender inequity are social determinants of health, and their relationship with other determinants.

- Increase knowledge and awareness of how outcomes in health are related to sex, gender norms, roles, relations and other determinants of health. - Initiate the building of core analytical skills for gender analysis and its application in a public health context. - Understand how the health sector can use gender analysis tools to effectively reduce health inequities.

By the end of module two, Analysis, you will understand: - Outline the principles of gender analysis of a health problem. - Define the interrelated factors that need to be examined during a gender analysis. - Understand the steps of a gender analysis and their relation to institutional mechanisms such as budgets and human resource plans. - Conduct gender analysis of the problem, - Use gender analysis in institutional planning processes.

By the end of module three, Action, you will understand: - Apply and gender assessment methods to a new or existing project or programme. - Identify key elements for developing gender-responsive actions. - Develop gender-responsive activities, work, plans, programs, or policies. - Classify top tasks and products by using the WHO GSM gender classification or AMRO/PAHO Biennial Work Plan and monitoring system.

Through this course, the Gender, Ethnicity and Health Office of PAHO/WHO seeks to promote an analysis of the health situation and access to services with proper attention given to differences in health indicators that reveal unfavorable circumstances faced by indigenous people, Afro-descendants, Romani people and migrants. Adopting an ethnic approach will create opportunities to redesign health program, plans and policies, with the aim to overcome unjust social conditions that affect those people within a framework that promote: social equity, social participation and respect for human rights.

This module you will learn how to:
understand ethnicity as a social health determinant; identify the mechanisms of exclusion; identify and locate indigenous people afro-descendants, Romani people, migrants on the American continent; identify poverty and health disparities affecting these populations in the region.

This module you will learn how to:
identify the tools to be considered when making a health analysis with an ethnic approach; distinguish the basic methodological tools use to carry out an appropriate health analysis with an ethnic approach; value the importance of the health analysis with an ethnic approach in health.