Lady’s health in India The women’s health in India can be viewed
Verified
Added on 2023/04/21
|1
|447
|197
AI Summary
Contribute Materials
Your contribution can guide someone’s learning journey. Share your
documents today.
Lady’s health in India The women’s health in India can be viewed in a variety of ways which often vary socioeconomically and culturally. In India, women face myriad of problems which range from gender, ethnic and class disparities which affect health outcomes. There is gender bias in access to health care with women being the weaker sex. According to the World economic forum, it signifies that India has the worst forms of gender inequality gaps (Raj, 2011). This gender inequality gaps translates to poor access to health care services thus deteriorating the overall quality of health. The gender inequality against women often depicts poor health outcome. Studies have shown that hospitals rates have more men frequency than women. The observed difference in health care access is often noted due to the women being entitled to limited resources in the household which limits them in access to health resources compared to men, (Sen, 2012). Furthermore, Indian women have been found to frequently underreport illness. The underreporting has often led to the contribution of cultural norms. The gender perspective has often influenced the usage of antenatal care and health care immunizations, (Balarajan et al., 2011). Gender mobility has often affected mobility for access services. They often have difficulty in traveling to public places compared to men, (Mechakra-Tahiriet al., 2012). In conclusion, it is evident that cultural practices and tradition in India greatly affects health outcomes. Women tend to be majorly affected by this aspect more compared to men thus lowering the overall quality of health. References Balarajan, Y., Selvaraj, S., & Subramanian, S. V. (2011). Health care and equity in India.The Lancet,377(9764), 505-515. Mechakra-Tahiri, S. D., Freeman, E. E., Haddad, S., Samson, E., & Zunzunegui, M. V. (2012). The gender gap in mobility: a global cross-sectional study.BMC public health,12(1), 598. Raj, A. (2011). Gender equity and universal health coverage in India.The Lancet,377(9766), 618-619. Sen, G., & Iyer, A. (2012). Who gains, who loses and how: leveraging gender and class intersections to secure health entitlements.Social science & medicine,74(11), 1802- 1811.