Nasa Begum has found that "impairment and disability are determining factors in women's access to primary health care" (p192). One in five of the women she surveyed said that their current GP did not respond very well, if at all, to their needs as a woman (p191). ("Doctor, Doctor . . . : Disabled Women's Experience of General Practitioners", in Morris, Jenny [ed.], Encounters with Strangers: Feminism and Disability, The Women's Press, London, 1996, pp168-193)

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