Women's (health) work: A population-based, cross-sectional study of gender differences in time spent seeking health care in Malawi.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been a notable expansion in routine health care in sub-Saharan Africa. While heath care is nominally free in many contexts, the time required to access services reflects an opportunity cost that may be substantial and highly gendered, reflecting the gendered nature of health care guidelines and patterns of use. The time costs of health care use, however, have rarely been systematically assessed at the population-level.

Methods

Data come from the 2015 wave of a population-based cohort study of young adults in southern Malawi during which 1,453 women and 407 men between the ages of 21 and 31 were interviewed. We calculated the time spent seeking health care over a two-month period, disaggregating findings by men, recently-pregnant women, mothers with child

SUBMITTER: Yeatman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303093 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature