Gender inequality
A new report on gender ineqaulity on healthcare has come out, one chapter of which actuially mentions palliative care, and it has lots of info about how men or women lose out in getting access to healthcare.
Find it at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_092042
David Wilkins, Sarah Payne, Gillian Granville and Peter Branney (2008) The Gender and Access to Health Services Study: Final Report. London DH.