ABSTRACT
This chapter examines gender, health and population. We begin by discussing how population and health are quantified and calculated by states and global organizations, such as the World Health Organization. We then discuss how gender and health are incorporated into development initiatives through public health programs and attempts to mitigate and improve access to quality healthcare, specifically reproductive health. This leads into a discussion of population management by governments and how measures to control populations privilege certain individuals (based social and gender identities) over others. Reproductive technologies and the link to population control measures by governments are further explored through two case studies, India and the Czech Republic. This chapter also addresses the ways in certain professions as an outgrowth of economic development increases ill health, disease, and even death caused by dangerous and unregulated work conditions.
