Gender differences in health expenditure of rural cancer patients: Evidence from a public tertiary care facility in India
Published By: Indian Statistical Institute | Published Date: January, 01 , 2014This paper investigates if there are gender differences in health expenditures and treatment seeking behavior among cancer patients and finds that the results are consistent with gender discrimination. Using a longitudinal survey on rural patients suffering from cancer in a public tertiary health center in Odisha, a poor state of India, the study finds that expenditures on female patients are significantly lesser than those on males.
Author(s): Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Indrani Gupta, Akansha Batra | Posted on: Jan 01, 2016 | Views() | Download (121)