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Revista Gerencia y Políticas de Salud

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HERNANDEZ BELLO, Amparo. Unpaid care in health: Naturalization and gender inequality. Rev. Gerenc. Polit. Salud [online]. 2009, vol.8, n.17, pp.173-185. ISSN 1657-7027.

Health care often takes place at home. By acquiring feminine characteristics and connotations as an unpaid domestic activity, it implies gender discrimination in time distribution and its compensation for women. In order to contribute to the discussions in health and gender equality, this essay aims to reexamine power asymmetries and positions that emerge from the gender biased historical division of labor, where a significant amount of policies and social programs are based on naturalized patriarchal relations and this division of labor, a phenomenon that contributes to maintain or even deepen social inequalities.

Keywords : Gender equality in health; unpaid domestic work; informal health care; division of labor; public policies; Colombia; Gender and health; domestic work; public policy.

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