Gender Analysis of Public Spending for Health Care in the Republic of Moldova

Abstract

The gender statistics is used as a main instrument for the analysis of the current situation, in order to keep track of the gender characteristics, as specific socio-demographical groups, for the elaboration of optimal socio-demographical politics and the realization of the equality of rights and possibilities of men and women. Also we can use it for the identification of the groups that benefit the most from the current budget expenditures for healthcare and social programs implemented by government in this sector. In order to analyze the gender sensitive budgeting regarding the healthcare in the Republic of Moldova, should be identified the diseases and health risks that mostly affect one or another gender. Due to the fact that different financing is required for the prevention of those risks, and for the cure of the respective diseases the state allocates different amount of funds for one or another gender. In such a way, the main goal of the current analysis is to identify which are the health risks and diseases that affect predominantly one gender, in this way requiring more state funds for health care. Also, the identification of the main drawbacks regarding this matter can help finding out some solutions for the improvement of the current situation regarding the healthcare budgeting.