Abstract
ABSTRACT Conditions of poverty in Third World countries affect the health of most people; however, recent literature on gender relations points to links between women's lower social position and disadvantages in accessing health care. Some indicators are utilization of fewer high technology facilities, with more use of local and home remedies, and lower expenditures on health care consultations by women as opposed to men. This research, focusing on health care utilization by men and women in a rural area of the Philippines, found that factors such as reliance on male wages for family survival (involving higher expenditures for men's health than women's) and gender differences in illness were influential in health care decisions.
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