Who gains, who loses and how: Leveraging gender and class intersections to secure health entitlements

Gita Sen and Aditi Iyer

Social Science & Medicine, 2012, vol. 74, issue 11, 1802-1811

Abstract: This paper argues that a focus on the middle groups in a multi-dimensional socioeconomic ordering can provide valuable insights into how different axes of advantage and disadvantage intersect with each other. It develops the elements of a framework to analyse the middle groups through an intersectional analysis, and uses it to explore how such groups leverage economic class or gender advantages to secure entitlements to treatment for long-term illness.

Keywords: Gender; Economic class; Intersectionality; Middle groups; Leveraging; Treatment; Entitlements; India; Health-seeking; Access to care; Long-term illness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.05.035

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