Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria

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dc.creatorJanssens, Wendy
dc.creatorKramer, Berber
dc.creatorMurphy, Mike
dc.date2019-12-11
dc.date2024-06-21T09:10:55Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:10:55Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:26:49Z
dc.descriptionHealth shocks (unpredictable illnesses and injuries) are an important source of risk for individuals in developing countries. In the absence of formal financial products such as health insurance or health savings accounts, unexpected illness or injury can have severe consequences. The burden of responding to health shocks often falls disproportionately on women, since they usually act as primary caregivers in households, and as a result are responsible for managing the health of children or elderly dependents. Despite this, much research around the uptake of health insurance or other risk-management products focuses on households instead of individuals, without considering how gender may affect individual preferences for, and access to, these products. To address this issue, this policy brief uses a unique dataset on individuals from rural households in sub-Saharan Africa to demonstrate how the financial lives of men and women differ in important respects, and how these differences may have important implications for policy on universal access to health services.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147062
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/104630
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147965
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.12.011
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.07.004
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1257/app.20170438
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.09.036
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz172
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceJanssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; and Murphy, Mike. 2019. Gender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147062
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjecthealth services
dc.subjectmen
dc.subjectsavings
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjecthealth hazards
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleGender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeria
dc.typeBrief

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