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17844933

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-9-11
pubmed:abstractText
In the early 1990s, India embarked upon a course of health sector reform, the impact of which on an already unequal society is now becoming more apparent. This study sought to deepen understanding of equity effects by exploring gender and class dynamics vis-à-vis basic access to health care for self-reported long-term ailments. The authors drew on the results of a cross-sectional household survey in a poor agrarian region of south India to test whether gender bias in treatment-seeking is class-neutral and whether class bias is gender-neutral. They found evidence of "pure gender bias" in non-treatment operating against both non-poor and poor women, and evidence of "rationing bias" in discontinued treatment operating against poor women overall, but with some differences between the poor and poorest households. In poor households, men insulated themselves and passed the entire burden of rationing onto women; but among the poorest, men, like women, were forced to curtail treatment. There were economic class differences in continued, discontinued, and no treatment, but class was a gendered phenomenon operating through women, not men.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0020-7314
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
537-54
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
The dynamics of gender and class in access to health care: evidence from rural Karnataka, India.
pubmed:affiliation
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bangalore, India. aditiyer@iimb.ernet.in
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't