Spatial perspective on woman’s primary health care services accessibility using Lefebvre’s approach

Pages: 1411-1418
Neha Verma Madan (Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering Pune, Pune, Maharashtra)

This paper critically examines the social production of space for primary healthcare activities. While many scholars have embraced the idea of considering only socio-economic and cultural factors for non-accessibility of primary health services to women, what these scholars have often left unexplored is how accessibility can also be measured by social production of space in urban areas. The first half of this paper focuses on the idea of Lefebvre’s conceptualization of social production of space and the linkage with the primary health care activities in slum in urban areas. The second section focuses specifically on how social production of space plays an important role in the accessibility of primary health care services to women in slums. I argue that components of social production of space-Perceived, Conceived and Lived- space should be considered together to address solutions in better primary health care accessibility.