Missing female patients: an observational analysis of sex ratio among outpatients in a referral tertiary care public hospital in India.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate gender discrimination in access to healthcare and its relationship with the patient's age and distance from the healthcare facility.

Design and setting

An observational study based on outpatient data from a large referral public hospital in Delhi, India.

Participants

Confirmed clinical appointments.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Estimates from the logistic regression are used to compute sex ratios (male/female) of patient visits with respect to distance from the hospital and age. Missing female patients for each state-a measure of the extent of gender discrimination-is computed as the difference in the actual number of female patients who came from each state and the number of female patients that should have visited the hospit

SUBMITTER: Kapoor M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6687005 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature