Women as providers of health care

Abstract

Explores the many factors governing the role and status of women as providers of health care. Drawing upon information gathered at two large WHO-sponsored consultations, the book considers the contribution of women within both the formal health care system and the informal setting of health care to families, neighbours, and communities. The objective is to make health planners and women themselves more conscious of the importance of women as resources for the solution of health problems while also promoting efforts to enhance, facilitate, and recompense the work of women in health development