Gender Analysis of Demand for Health Services in Rural Areas of JAVA Indonesia

Abstract

There is a hypothesis that women in rural area have less access to health services than men because of social and cultural factors. This study aims to examine gender discrimination, which is measured using demand for health services. The results indicate that women and men are equal in terms of accessing health services when tested using a Chowtest. When demand is tested using a Hausman-test, there is an indication of different structural demand. Women tend to have more access to health services than men because of specific characteristics in terms of health problems. For these two villages, the hypothesis of which women have less access to health services than men is not the case. Policy implication is that the local government ought to pay more attention to other villages to imitate a condition at which the human-right of women and men are practically equal.