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Who gains, who loses and how: Leveraging gender and class intersections to secure health entitlements

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  • Sen, Gita
  • Iyer, Aditi

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This paper argues that a focus on the middle groups in a multi-dimensional socioeconomic ordering can provide valuable insights into how different axes of advantage and disadvantage intersect with each other. It develops the elements of a framework to analyse the middle groups through an intersectional analysis, and uses it to explore how such groups leverage economic class or gender advantages to secure entitlements to treatment for long-term illness.

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  • Sen, Gita & Iyer, Aditi, 2012. "Who gains, who loses and how: Leveraging gender and class intersections to secure health entitlements," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(11), pages 1802-1811.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:74:y:2012:i:11:p:1802-1811
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.05.035
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