Cecilia Benoit and Leah Shumka
Editors: Jacqueline Larson and Ann Pederson, 2009
This primer aims to clarify the concepts in the health determinants framework and to examine its usefulness in understanding the health of a unique population group — girls and women — who face disadvantage due to structural inequities that limit their access to, and control over, material and symbolic resources, and over their bodies and lives.