timeuse data should be taken into account to incorporate the gender perspective when designing povertyeradication programmes or when evaluating the benefits of such conditions and to promote shared responsibility between men and women and between the state the market and families eclac a and when coordinating these programmes with others and strengthening health and education policies so that they reach the poorest sectors and are not supported by conditional transfer programmes and the unpaid work of women the reasons vary and include the cost and organization of health services which complicate access to medical care especially for people in the lowestincome households ferran in order to produce estimates of the activities that directly affect the health of household members timeuse surveys must distinguish between care activities relating specifically to health care and other activities if this heavy burden is maintained over time it can influence the physical and mental health of the caregiver who will then also need care