This is the third and final part of our series on gendered medicine. We step back and look at the way that health care and research are funded. It’s been said that the health needs of women are undervalued by our existing fee-for-service model, down to individual item numbers in the Medicare Benefits Schedule. There’s also evidence that disease predominantly experienced by female patients receive less research investment. Is this blatant sexism or a symptom of other structural imbalance? And what do we do about it? 

Guest 
Dr Zoe Wainer BMBS, PhD, MPH (Director of Clinical Governance, BUPA)

Production
Written and produced by Mic Cavazzini DPhil. Music licenced from Epidemic Sound includes ‘Lullaby’ by OOy, ‘Cocktail’ by Major Tweaks, ‘Soul Single Serenade’ by Dusty Decks, ‘Elm Lake’ by Elm Lake, ‘Kauko’ by Twelve, ‘Fugent’ by Lupus Nocte. Voice acting by Ai Leen Quah. Image by Claudius Vesalius courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Feedback on this episode was kindly provided by physicians of the RACP’s Podcast Editorial Group; Ilana Ginges, Sern Wei Yeoh, Lucy Haggstrom, Nele Legge, Ketih Ooi, Adrienne Torda, Li-Zsa Tan, Loryn Einstein, Vicka Poudyal, Rhiannon Mellor, Rosalynn Pszczola. Other reviewers include Dr Lucy Mitchell and Rebecca Lewis, Elyce Pyzhov, Michelle Daley, Cristiana Palmieri PhD and Dr Anna Sidis DCP.

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