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Gender Gaps in Research on Health Services in India

Shelley Saha

CEHAT, Flat no. 3 and 4, Aman Terrace, Dahanukar Colony, Kothrud, Pune 411029. E-mail: sahashelley{at}rediffmail.com

T.K. Sundari Ravindran

WHO, Geneva. E-mail: ravindrans{at}usa.net.

This paper covers a review of studies on health services conducted in India in the last decade through a gender lens. Here, we have tried to see the interplay of gender and social position in accessibility, acceptability, cost and effectiveness of health services for reproductive health concerns of women and men. It can be seen that since the mid-1980s health research has undergone a major shift as it went beyond the con ventional framework to understand linkages between the health care service system, and the socio-economic and cultural factors vis-à-vis access and utilisation, and in turn the health status of people. This was an important paradigm shift from under standing people's health status in terms of medical determinants alone to under standing it in terms of sociocultural determinants. The paper brings into light that in general health services research has not been sensitive to the specific health services need of women. It concludes with a series of unexplored issues in this regard, which could help undertake meaningful research that is informed by a gender and social perspective.

Journal of Health Management, Vol. 4, No. 2, 185-214 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/097206340200400207
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