Maria Angeles Duran: "health care has always been women's work". (Opinion).

From: Women's Health Journal | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Gomez, Adriana | Copyright information

Under the auspices of Chile's National Health Fund (FONASA) and the Pan American Health Organization, Spanish expert Maria Angeles Duran recently presented a course in Chile entitled "The Invisible Costs of Health Care," a subject which she has addressed in numerous specialized publications. The "invisible costs" to which Ms. Duran refers are those produced outside the institutionalized health-care system: the labor of health care that generally fails to women in the home. Over the...

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