World Health Organisation’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health considered gender as one of the factors of social determinants of health. Gender equity is based on the idea of equality of opportunity. United Nations defined gender equity as fairness of treatment for women and men according to their respective needs. Establishing gender equity helps to establish such a reality where fair distribution of opportunities and resources exist. The World Health Organisation defines Public Health as ‘the art and science of preventing diseases, prolonging life and promoting health through the organised efforts of society’. Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. It helps to promote physical and mental health, sanitation, personal hygiene, control of infectious diseases and organization of health services. Gender has been important part of public health and that has to taken into account for establishing holistic aspect of public health. Without incorporation of gender aspect, the concept of public health won’t be inclusive one. Meanwhile Public Health has been one of the important pillars for a nation through which people irrespective of their caste, gender, class, race background can access the government health care system. This paper attempts to understand health practices and access to public health care system among the tea garden women workers of Assam. The main objective of the paper is to explore tea garden women worker’s experiences in accessing public health care system and measure its accessibility in terms of education, economic conditions, state response to health care management . The wok is based on qualitative research.The field work will be located in different tea garden areas of Golaghat District of Assam. The paper helps to understand the gender equity in terms of public health scenario of Assam with the experiences of tea garden women.
