Santosh Jatrana

TL;DR: Research based on 2004 data clearly showed that while 7% of respondents deferred picking up a prescription in the previous 12 months because they could not afford the cost, a much higher proportion of Māori and Pacific people reported putting off paying for prescription medication.

TL;DR: Gender significantly associated with reporting cost barriers to primary health care, regardless of individual deprivation or income levels, is suggested, suggesting thatPrimary health care policies targeting gender-specific factors are warranted.

TL;DR: The authors examines the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in urban India and examines whether their working status is breaking gender stereotypes or reaffirming them, arguing that whether women are working in offices or from home, contributing to the IT sector or labouring as petty producers, they are unable to break out of the gendered codes that place them at the lower rungs of the occupational ladder.

TL;DR: It is found that socio-economic mortality gradients persist into old age, and individual-level measures of socio- economic status are more closely related to mortality in older women than older men.