Gender-Responsive Health Care System Towards a Gender-Responsive Development: An Assessment of the Gender-Responsiveness of the Health Care Delivery in the Municipality of Navotas

Abstract

This research was focused on the quality of the health services that the local government of Navotas is providing to its people particularly to women. It presented an assessment regarding the gender-responsiveness of the different health centers in this municipality using a historical materialist framework wherein qualitative research was primarily used, supported by a quantitative type. This study proved that the health care delivery in the municipality of Navotas is not responsive to the health needs of its clients, especially women. There are inadequacies in the different aspects of the health care system that causes dissatisfaction and complaints.