Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria
Health shocks (unpredictable illnesses and injuries) are an important source of risk for individuals in developing countries. In the absence of formal financial products such as health insurance or health savings accounts, unexpected illness or injury can have severe consequences. The burden of resp...
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| author | Janssens, Wendy Kramer, Berber Murphy, Mike |
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| description | Health shocks (unpredictable illnesses and injuries) are an important source of risk for individuals in developing countries. In the absence of formal financial products such as health insurance or health savings accounts, unexpected illness or injury can have severe consequences. The burden of responding to health shocks often falls disproportionately on women, since they usually act as primary caregivers in households, and as a result are responsible for managing the health of children or elderly dependents. Despite this, much research around the uptake of health insurance or other risk-management products focuses on households instead of individuals, without considering how gender may affect individual preferences for, and access to, these products. To address this issue, this policy brief uses a unique dataset on individuals from rural households in sub-Saharan Africa to demonstrate how the financial lives of men and women differ in important respects, and how these differences may have important implications for policy on universal access to health services. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1470622025-11-06T06:52:16Z Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria Janssens, Wendy Kramer, Berber Murphy, Mike gender health households health services men savings resilience health hazards women Health shocks (unpredictable illnesses and injuries) are an important source of risk for individuals in developing countries. In the absence of formal financial products such as health insurance or health savings accounts, unexpected illness or injury can have severe consequences. The burden of responding to health shocks often falls disproportionately on women, since they usually act as primary caregivers in households, and as a result are responsible for managing the health of children or elderly dependents. Despite this, much research around the uptake of health insurance or other risk-management products focuses on households instead of individuals, without considering how gender may affect individual preferences for, and access to, these products. To address this issue, this policy brief uses a unique dataset on individuals from rural households in sub-Saharan Africa to demonstrate how the financial lives of men and women differ in important respects, and how these differences may have important implications for policy on universal access to health services. 2019-12-11 2024-06-21T09:10:55Z 2024-06-21T09:10:55Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147062 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147965 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.12.011 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.07.004 https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20170438 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.09.036 https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz172 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; and Murphy, Mike. 2019. Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147062 |
| spellingShingle | gender health households health services men savings resilience health hazards women Janssens, Wendy Kramer, Berber Murphy, Mike Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria |
| title | Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria |
| title_full | Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria |
| title_short | Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria |
| title_sort | gender and resilience to health shocks evidence from financial and health diaries in rural kenya and nigeria |
| topic | gender health households health services men savings resilience health hazards women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147062 |
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