Bryant et al. - Unmet healthcare need, gender, and health inequalities in Canada

Arguments

• Examines unmet healthcare need associations with social factors:

  • Income

  • Housing tenure

  • Community issues → social networks + social support

  • Traditional lifestyle/behavioural risk factors

  • Gender

    • Reliable predictor of having an unmet health

• Suggestions to reduce unmet healthcare needs in women:

  • Increasing federal transfers to healthcare

  • Providing childcare and community supports