Empowering older women in Malaysia: Understanding their health care demand

• 主要な著者: Abdullah, Norehan, Samsudin, Shamzaeffa, Majid, Rahimah
• フォーマット: 論文
• 言語: English
• 出版事項: School of Government, College of Law, Government and International Studies (COLGIS), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) 2014
• 主題: HQ The family. Marriage. Woman; RA Public aspects of medicine
• オンライン･アクセス: http://repo.uum.edu.my/12450/1/5%2093-108.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/12450/; http://jgd.uum.edu.my/

Understanding factors that affect health care demand by elderly women is vital for a health system to be more supportive towards women’s empowerment.This paper presents the medical care utilization of the elderly women; identify the existence of income-related inequity in health care utilization and...