Final

Question 1

Gender health: biases

Answer 1

1. Women often neglected in medicine + medicine research
2. Stereotypes common
3. Women medical care often irresponsible
4. Physician communication patterns make women feel powerless

Question 2

Gender bias in healthcare

Answer 2

• Diagnostic procedures not performed
• delays in diagnosis
• medications not prescribed
• referrals not made
• lifesaving procedures not performed
• pain ignored

Question 3

Differences in disease patterns

Answer 3

• Cancer diagnosed 2.5 years later
  -Diabetes 4.5 years later

Question 4

Gender bias in critical care

Answer 4

• Surgery offered less frequently
• less likely to get appropriate diagnostic care for strokes
• 11% longer to see doctor 15% longer to receive diagnostic image test

Question 5

Stereotypes in health care

Answer 5

• Women more likely to get sedatives
• women symptoms consideredpsychosomatic
  Meaning shift: symptoms reinterpreted as psychological

Question 6

Gender comparisons

Answer 6

• Life expectancy: women live 6-8 years longer
• biological: 2nd X chromosome
• social: men more high risk activities
  -Enviornmental: dangerous work conditions

Question 7

Health issues in developing countries

Answer 7

• poor economic situation
• poor nutrition
  -Maternal mortality
• lack of health faculties
• lack of power in decision making

Question 8

Cardiovascular disease common symptoms

Answer 8

Male: light head, short of breath, chest pain stomach pain

Female: dizzy anxiety, back+ neck pain, short of breath, nausea + vommiting

Question 9

Cardiovascular disease

Answer 9

• 7 x more likely to be misdiagnosedin middle of having heart attack
• less likely to receive ECG
• less likely to receive clot dissolving therapy

Question 10

AIDS

Answer 10

• Women more vulnerable
• can damage CNS
• 52% living with HIV

Question 11

Preventing AIDS

Answer 11

Sex education programs, condom use, power imbalance

Question 12

Longterm STD effects

Answer 12

• HPV: lead to cervical cancer
• chlamydia: can cause infertility
• herpes: no cure, lead to cervical cancer
• gonorrhea: cause infertility
• syphillis: difficult to detect

Question 13

Barriers to sale sex

Answer 13

Lack of power, hear of violence tear of abandonment, stigma, poverty

Question 14

Smoking

Answer 14

• Increased mortality and morbidity
• peer influence
  -Weight control

Question 15

Alcohol abuse

Answer 15

• Health consequence: liver disease, cancer, blood pressure
  -Fas

Question 16

MDD symptoms

Answer 16

Emotional: sadness, irritability

Cognitive: guilt, worthlessness

Physical: fatigue, headaches

Behaviour: decreased social interaction and ability to do work

Question 17

Culture of thinness

Answer 17

Objectified body consciousness: view self as object that can be looked at and judged

Body dissatisfaction: higher in women

Question 18

Thinness discrimination (if above average size)

Answer 18

• Less likely to be hired
• earn lower salary
  -Less likely to be promoted
• more likely to be bullied

Question 19

People at risk for ED

Answer 19

• Women with low self-esteem
• women employed in environments that objectify women
  -Lbgtq+
• people with trauma

Question 20

Anorexia nervosa

Answer 20

Extreme ear of weight gain

Consequences: osteoporosis , lung, heart . kidney disorders

Question 21

Bulimia nervosa

Answer 21

Normal body weight but binge eating

• experience high levels of depression
  -Fluctuate between eating excessive calories and restricting food intake
• heart, liver, metabolism + menstrual cycle problems

Question 22

Binge eating disorder

Answer 22

• Frequent episodes of binge eating with no compensation of unhealthy weight loss methods
• tend to gain weight over time
• depression

Question 23

Diagnosis criticisms

Answer 23

• Sexism
• sexual minorities
• Classism
• cultural barriers
• language banners

Question 24

Misogynist approach

Answer 24

• gender role acquisition: predetermined
• morality: Electra complex weak, morally interior to men
• penis envy: incomplete men who mourn loss of penis all their lives

Question 25

Treating disorders in women

Answer 25

• Cognitive-behavioural: problems arise from maladaptive thinking and learning
• feminist therapy: non-sexist treatment
• pharmacotherapy; treatment through medicine

Question 26

Childhood mental health

Answer 26

Pervasive developmental disorder, ADHD conduct disorders, learning disability

Men > women

Question 27

Adolescent mental health

Answer 27

Depression, self harm ,ed, substance abuse(M>F)

Female> male

Question 28

Adulthood mental health

Answer 28

Depression + anxiety F>M
Schizophrenia,bpd, substance
M>F

Question 29

Old age mental health

Answer 29

Dementia, depression, psychoses
F>M