Equidad y salud desde una perspectiva de género

Abstract

The purposes of this paper is to analyse social inequalities affecting in Chile the poorer and/or most vulnerable population, and the consequences upon health conditions, particularly of women in relation with their process of incorporation into working field. The country faces an increasing social gap, striking over determined categories of workers, in order to their social class and sex. This outlines a regressive health tendency, expressed as marked differences of premature mortality measured in terms of rate of loss in potential life years —focused on women only in this part of the study— for distinct working categories. Both, the tendency of overmortality and the lack of homogeneity of death causes for different social class and sex categories, lead to acknowledge the preventible profile of health damages and should guide us towards prevention like an imperative of social ethics.