Sushan Acharya|Anna Robinson?Pant
Women, literacy and health: comparing health and education sectoral approaches in Nepal
Tribhuvan University|University of East Anglia
functional adult literacy interventions regarded many decades policy makers effective way imparting health knowledge supported research statistical relationships womens literacy rates health indicators dominant policy discourse based assumptions nonliterate women lack understanding confidence formal programmes institutions constitute main sites learning proposing broader conceptualisation literacy social practice health connected social justice article draws policy analysis authors earlier research nepal reexamine relationship gender literacy health comparing health literacy approaches used within education health sectors taking account new indigenous informal learning practices article points ways investigating complex interaction factors influence inequalities gender health community level