Gender and Health : Barriers and Opportunities for Women's Participation in the Private Health Sector in Africa
Despite their strong contribution to the overall world economic growth, gender gaps are wide in many countries in sub Saharan Africa and low representation of women in the private health sector is wider than in other sectors. While women and youth...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25161146/gender-health-barriers-opportunities-womens-participation-private-health-sector-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22965 |
| Summary: | Despite their strong contribution to the
overall world economic growth, gender gaps are wide in many
countries in sub Saharan Africa and low representation of
women in the private health sector is wider than in other
sectors. While women and youth use the majority of health
services both private and public, women are underrepresented
as private health care providers and have limited access to
financing to open their own private practices. This
landscape has prompted the HNP Global Practice to take a
critical look at the factors which hamper the growth of
female and young private health practitioners vis a vis
their male counterparts (usually older and more experienced
in their profession). This assessment provides information
on ways to close the gap which exists between male private
service providers and female providers as well as recommends
ways in which the existing gaps can be addressed. The
assessment also provides the basis for further developing a
strong public- private dialogue in health while providing
avenues for building capacities for women to fully
contribute to the development of the private health sector
through the development of training module to be
administered in private training schools as a pilot in
Burkina Faso and Mali. |
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