Gender and Inequality in Access to Healthcare Facilities in India: Evidence from NSSO’s 75th Round on Health

IF 1.3 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Millennial Asia Pub Date : 2023-10-29 DOI:10.1177/09763996231195663

Harpreet Singh, Rana Amanat Singh

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Abstract

The present study attempts to explore gender-based gaps in access to quality healthcare at the pan-India level. To undertake our analyses using National Sample Survey Office’s secondary data, we prepared a Gender Parity Index to understand the nature and extent of gender differential in access and direct utilization of quality healthcare services. The results validate the proposed objective of the study, that is, females suffer from innate accessibility gaps in rural as well as urban India. Females not only lack access to general healthcare but are also devoid of quality healthcare. Males, often, have better access to general healthcare through private hospitals and clinics in conjunction with other sources. On the other hand, females are predominantly confined to the government and charitable medical institutions. Additionally, the results show that the brunt of these gaps in healthcare is borne relatively more by rural females than their urban female counterparts.

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印度获得医疗保健设施的性别和不平等:来自NSSO第75轮健康问题的证据

本研究试图探讨在全印度一级获得高质量医疗保健方面基于性别的差距。为了利用国家抽样调查办公室的二手数据进行分析，我们编制了一个性别均等指数，以了解在获得和直接利用优质医疗保健服务方面性别差异的性质和程度。研究结果验证了本文提出的研究目标，即印度农村和城市女性都存在先天的可及性差距。妇女不仅得不到一般保健，而且也得不到高质量的保健。通过私立医院和诊所以及其他渠道，男性往往能更好地获得一般保健服务。另一方面，女性主要局限于政府和慈善医疗机构。此外，研究结果表明，农村女性比城市女性在医疗保健方面承受的这些差距相对更大。

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Millennial Asia AREA STUDIES-

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4.50

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Millennial Asia: An International Journal of Asian Studies is a multidisciplinary, refereed biannual journal of the Association of Asia Scholars (AAS)–an association of the alumni of the Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF). It aims to encourage multifaceted, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on Asia, in order to understand its fast changing context as a growth pole of global economy. By providing a forum for Asian scholars situated globally, it promotes dialogue between the global academic community, civil society and policy makers on Asian issues. The journal examines Asia on a regional and comparative basis, emphasizing patterns and tendencies that go beyond national borders and are globally relevant. Modern and contemporary Asia has witnessed dynamic transformations in cultures, societies, economies and political institutions, among others. It confronts issues of collective identity formation, ecological crisis, rapid economic change and resurgence of religion and communal identifies while embracing globalization. An analysis of past experiences can help produce a deeper understanding of contemporary change. In particular, the journal is interested in locating contemporary changes within a historical perspective, through the use of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. This way, it hopes to promote comparative studies involving Asia’s various regions. The journal brings out both thematic and general issues and the thrust areas are: Asian integration, Asian economies, sociology, culture, politics, governance, security, development issues, arts and literature and any other such issue as the editorial board may deem fit. The core fields include development encompassing agriculture, industry, regional trade, social sectors like health and education and development policy across the region and in specific countries in a comparative perspective.