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

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorPharmAccess Foundationen
cg.contributor.donorHealth Insurance Funden
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierBerber Kramer: 0000-0001-7644-6613
cg.creator.identifierMike Murphy: 0000-0002-0293-1621
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133514en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorJanssens, Wendyen
dc.contributor.authorKramer, Berberen
dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Mikeen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:10:55Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:10:55Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147062
dc.titleGender and resilience to health shocks: Evidence from financial and health diaries in rural Kenya and Nigeriaen
dcterms.abstractHealth 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.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationJanssens, 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/10568/147062en
dcterms.extent6 pagesen
dcterms.isPartOfProject Noteen
dcterms.issued2019-12-11
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147965en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.12.011en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.07.004en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1257/app.20170438en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.09.036en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz172en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/133514en
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjecthealthen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjecthealth servicesen
dcterms.subjectmenen
dcterms.subjectsavingsen
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.subjecthealth hazardsen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.typeBrief

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