title: Health care reform in New Zealand: the diversity of gender experience.
abstract: Women are a heterogeneous group with varying experiences and needs of health care systems. It is important that we recognise not only differences between women, but also that individual women may have different, even contradictory, health care issues and needs. These may vary according to women's different roles, identities, contexts, and resources (financial, social, etc.). This paper explores situated ideas about identity, gender, and place and how these relate to perceptions of accessibility of health care services in the context of New Zealand's restructured health care system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., Canada K7L 3N6. 7jlw@qsilver.queensu.ca
authors.forename: Janine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wiles
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009520:New Zealand; D011050:Policy Making; D012423:Rural Health; D012737:Sex Factors; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014504:Urban Health; D014932:Women's Health Services