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CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN
TO HEALTH AND THE HEALTH SECTOR
Women and Health
The key to sustainable development
University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine
October 1, 2015
Outline
Women in transition
The framework: measuring myriad
contributions of women to health and the
health sector
The economic value of women's
contributions to health & the health sector
Global & Mexico
Ireland
UK
Germany
Hungary
Norway
Poland
Bulgaria
Netherlands
France
Romania
Spain
Greece
1950
Canada
Czech Republic
Cuba
South Africa
Argentina
Panama
Italy
Mexico
14
Peru
Uruguay
Portugal
China
Nicaragua
Turkey
India
Pakistan
Benin
12
10
Panama
Jamaica
Ecuador
Paraguay
Trinidad & T.
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Colombia
United States
Argentina
Men
Uruguay
200
Guyana
Canada
Dominican Rep.
Peru
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Honduras
Venezuela
Brasil
Mexico
(Latin
America, 1960 2010)
300
Women
Average
100
40
Canada
Czech
Republi
c
Denmark
30
Israel
20
Portugal
United
Kingdom
United States
2012
2010
2005
2000
1995
1990
1985
10
1980
60
Men
No.
No.
1901 - 1920
101
4%
1921 - 1940
99
5%
1941 - 1960
113
4%
1961 - 1980
176
3%
1981 - 2000
11
286
4%
2001 - 2014
17
147
10%
Period
47
922
women/t
otal
Women
6%
9%
6%
4%
6%
32%
% DALYs
65%
64%
71%
80%
90%
62%
29%
27%
23%
14%
Injuries
Non-communicable
Source: Estimates based on Global Burden od Disease Study, 2013. IHME, 2015.
6%
Communicable, maternal
and nutritional
In just over 40
years, LAC will
71%
achieve the aging
rates that most
58%
European countries
Communicable
took over two
centuries to reach.
NonLife expectancy has 35%
Communicable
increased from 30+
Injuries
in 1920, to 75+
23%
today
In a very short time
7%
6%
period, the causes
of death have
1990
2013
reversed
Source: Cepal, 2012. The epidemiologic profile of Latin America and teh Caribbean: challenges, limits, and actions.; and IHME GBD Study 2013.
Outline
Women in transition
Discriminati
on
Data: 32 countries
Employment and time use survey data for
Canada, Spain, Turkey, Mexico and Peru
Published reports of results of Time Use
Surveys for 27 countries
Represents 52% of the global population
Low income, 4%
Lower middle income, 91%
Upper middle income, 17%
High income, 33%
Salaried/
Paid
Public
Heckman
Voluntar
y/unpaid
Work in
Health
and the
Health
Sector
Net (1)
DF
Gross
(2)
Net (3)
Witho
ut DF
Gross
(4)
Minimum
wage
By
occupation
DF
Heckman
Private /
Unpaid
Witho
ut DF
Gross
(6)
Net(7)
Gross
(8)
Net (9)
Minimum
wage
By
occupat
ion
Net (5)
DF
Witho
ut DF
Gross
(10)
Net
(11)
Gross (12)
Net
(13)
Gross
(14)
Outline
Women in transition
The framework: measuring myriad
contributions of women to health and the
health sector
PAID:
51.2%
UNPAID:4
8.8%
3.5%
Wages reported in
the survey
2.35%
T$1.5
1.8%
2.47%
T$1.6
$T3.3
T$3.1
Unpaid
Based on Country
Minimum Wage
1.1%
0
2.5%
2
$T2.8
Paid
6
Adjusted by social
Benefits package
and sex differences
Wages reported
in the survey
Canada
1.6
Spain
1.3
Turkey 0.4 0.4
Mexico
1.6
Peru
0.3
Paid
Unpaid
0.7
0.2
6.2
2.9
Canada
Spain
Turkey
Mexico
Peru
1.8
2.1
0.9 0.9
3.1
2.2
0.5 0.5
10
Paid
20
0.045
10
What
are the
men
doing?
0.032
5.8
7.8
0.026
10.9
1.0% GDP
15
Men: B$8.7
8.1
1.6% GDP
USD $ BILLIONS
Women: B$13.6
Voluntary
4.9
3.8
0
Wages
reported in
survey
Women
Wages
reported in
survey
Men
Health care
7.2
2.3
2.3
Average hours per week
3.4%
GDP
B$14
1.1%
GDP
4.5% GDP
MEN
Domestic work
20
Rest and
relaxation
Work outside
of the home
9
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41
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Women's Contributions
to Health and the Economy - the choice:
Do we aspire to a Virtuous or a Vicious Cycle?
Virtuous Cycle
Healthy women
invest time
effectively in
producing health
and preventing
disease
Healthy and more
education
women women
produce more
health care
More economic
growth means
more money to
invest in health
and human
development
More health is
produced for men,
women and children
Vicious Cycle
Unhealthy women
invest time ineffectively
in an attempt to prevent
disease and loss of life
Unhealthy, poor,
More equal
disenfranchised
opportunitie
women produce
s
Children learn
less health care
better and adults
are more
productive
Less
health for
men,
women
and
children
Unhealthy children
learn less and
adults are less
productive
Suboptimal
development
of human
capital
Inequality of
opportunities
More
poverty
Less money to
invest in health
and human
development
2.43%
2.85%
Unpaid
Paid
Wages reported
in the survey
Lower bound
2.35%
2.47%
$1.49
$1.56
2.27%
0
2.17%
2
3.13
3.12
1.83
1
0
Lower
income
High
income