Community-based women's trade union brings health care to the poor (English)

The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), a trade union, was founded in 1972 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat State, India, to empower poor women who earn a living outside the formal sector through their own labor or small business. These women don't earn a regular salary and have no welfare benefits like those employed in the organized sector. This paper includes the following headings: health care in Gujarat; SEWA health services; the reproductive health...

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Document Date
2007/01/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
42024
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
India,
Region
South Asia,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Community-based women's trade union brings health care to the poor
Keywords
delivery of health care services

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Community-based women's trade union brings health care to the poor (English). Reaching the Poor with Health Services ; India Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/707791468049794212

Community-based women's trade union brings health care to the poor (English)

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