Gender perspectives and quality of care in underdeveloped countries: Disease, gender and contextuality

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 721-730

  Zaidi, S Akbar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Contextuality; Disease; Gender inequalities

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; SOCIAL CLASS;

CONTEXTUALITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE; GENDER ISSUES; GENDER STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0030222646     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(96)00116-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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