Abstract:

Gender equality or inequality is a major determinant of poverty and poor health. Women may face gender discrimination in all spheres of social life: utilization of health services, education, employment, social and economic, political rights and moral obligation. Some socially regressive beliefs or poverty of families can lead to keeping of girls away from school. Untrained or inadequately trained women who are forced to work in jobs that do not require special qualifications or underpaid. Above mentioned restrictions and inequalities have direct or indirect effects on women’s health and well-being.Women who are in education and welfare are particularly useful for improving health of women, their children, their family, and even entire communities. The purpose of this paper is to discuss firstly the relationship between poverty of women and their health, followed by an evaluation of the current situation in Turkey done on the basis of statistical relation of women’s poverty vs. health

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