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. 2020 Oct 27:371:m3384.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.m3384.

Employment based health financing does not support gender equity in universal health coverage

Lavanya Vijayasingham  1 , Veloshnee Govender  2 , Sophie Witter  3 , Michelle Remme  4
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Employment based health financing does not support gender equity in universal health coverage

Lavanya Vijayasingham et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Health financing and entitlement systems linked to employment can disadvantage women, argue Lavanya Vijayasingham and colleagues

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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article, which do not necessarily represent the views, decisions, or policies of the institutions with which the authors are affiliated.

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Gendered work trajectories and continuous universal health coverage
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