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Enhancing Gender-Responsive Health Services Through Open and Digital Learning in India
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Building gender-responsive health services is essential not only for improving health outcomes but also for achieving universal health care, promoting effective health governance and ensuring resilient healthcare systems. Given the disproportionate vulnerability of women and girls to disasters, communicable diseases (HIV, TB, STIs, Hepatitis C), non-communicable diseases (cancers, thyroid disorders, hormonal imbalances, weight gain), and other health risks, it is essential that quality health care services are equally accessible to women across all classes. To overcome gendered vulnerabilities and disadvantages, digital health can play important role both from supply side as well as demand side. India's healthcare landscape is undergoing a digital transformation through integration of digital technology, digital finance, online education, web-based learning, and mobile applications in advancing health care system. It has initiated numbers of innovative and ambitious programmes on the supply side like Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), e-Sanjeevani for telemedicine, U-Win Portal for vaccination services, and Aarogya Setu App for registration for an Ayushman Bharat Health Account(ABHA), e-Hospital facilitating for ensuring hospital appointments and National Tele Mental Health Programme (Tele MANAS) for mental health counselling, On the demand side , online training, continued medical education (CME) , web based health education and Public health communication play indispensable role in improving women's awareness , thereby increasing access to preventive, promotive, and curative health services. This paper examines the digital tools and innovations with the gender lens to understand how far these programmes are gender friendly and gender accessible to make desirable difference in the lives of women as beneficiaries as well as service providers.
PCF11 Plus: Beyond the Forum
Sub-Theme: Gender, technology and innovation in open education
Paper ID: 8164
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India
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Asia
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2025-09
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)