Asma Shamseldin Hassan Saeed 2009. Gender sensitivity in health education messages in Sudan.

AbuBaker, Hwiada

Asma Shamseldin Hassan Saeed 2009. Gender sensitivity in health education messages in Sudan. Supervised by Setna Ahmed Alseed

The study has been undertaken in Sudan in the federal Ministry of Health in the Immunization department. The aim of the study is to review and analyze the Health education posters and messages of the expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) from a gender perspective. In order to examine the gender sensitivity of these messages in term of words and images. The study has come out with results, findings and recommendations to help designing gender sensitive posters. The research objectives are:

1. To examine the vaccination posers clarity and representation to the targeted categories of the Sudanese community.

2. To examine the gender sensitivity of the vaccination poster images and messages and to review and analyze them from a gender perspective.

3. To develop recommendations that can help for applying gender sensitive approach in the health education messages in vaccination posters.

The researcher applies is a qualitative method which provides for developing a gender analysis framework, in order to analyze the sample of the research study. The researcher adopts purposive sampling to choose a sample of "thirteen posters" which are then analyzed and the researcher has come out with some findings and recommendations