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Excluded from Health? Informal Workers’ Access to Health Care in Chile
Author(s) -
GIDEON JASMINE
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2007.00222.x
Subject(s) - informal sector , latin americans , inequality , health care , economic growth , health insurance , health equity , political science , sociology , business , demographic economics , development economics , economics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , law
The Pan American Health Organisation recently highlighted the increased exclusion of low income households in Latin America from health care. The rise in informal employment and sub‐contracting of workers means that many employees lack formal contracts and are excluded from health insurance programmes. Feminist research suggests low income women are often most at risk of exclusion. Simultaneously, deeply entrenched inequalities within health systems across the region have not been addressed by health sector reforms. Drawing on the case of Chile, this paper examines the extent to which informal workers have indeed been excluded and how far these processes are gendered.