An Implication of Health Sector Reform for Disadvantaged Women's Struggle for Birth Control: A Case of Kurdish Rural-Urban Migrant Women in Van, Turkey

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2015-09-02

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HİM, MİKİ
Hoşgör, Hatice Ayşe

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In this article, we examine how socioeconomically disadvantaged women are affected by health sector reform and family planning policy changes in Turkey through a case study of Kurdish women's struggles for birth control. In Turkey, a family planning program became relatively marginalized in primary health care services as a result of health sector reform as well as a shift of population policy toward a moderately pronatal approach. We argue that an emerging health care system would leave disadvantaged women unable to benefit from contraceptives and would perpetuate reproductive health inequalities between women in the country.

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Turkish, Care

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44106

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HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL

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https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2013.827196

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Department of Sociology, Article

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M. HİM and H. A. Hoşgör, “An Implication of Health Sector Reform for Disadvantaged Women’s Struggle for Birth Control: A Case of Kurdish Rural-Urban Migrant Women in Van, Turkey,” HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL, pp. 969–987, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44106.