Gender and Health

Question 1

What is gender?

Answer 1

Social construct, sociology

Question 2

What is sex?

Answer 2

Biology, Chromosomes

Question 3

Who is more disadvantaged?

Answer 3

Women

Question 4

Who is more likely to access health care? Why?

Answer 4

Women, biology (more things change) sociology (more in touch with body and feelings)

Question 5

Who is more likely to develop diseases?

Answer 5

Males - females in wealthy countries are biologically advantaged

Question 6

Who is more likely to be diagnosed with diseases? Why

Answer 6

Males - men are the prototypes and therefore show most of the signs

Question 7

Who is more likely to die of mortality, violence and suicide? Why?

Answer 7

Males - gender roles

Question 8

Who has worse mental health? Why?

Answer 8

Women, screening tools are biased towards women

Question 9

How has research filed?

Answer 9

Views women as abnormalities of men, doesn’t examine gender, just sex

Question 10

____ leads to poorer ______

Answer 10

low SES leads to poor health

Question 11

Who is more likely to be in a lower SES?

Answer 11

Women- think back to income

Question 12

How does employment effect women health?

Answer 12

Women in lower SES take on more vulnerable jobs where there is no benefits, maternity leave, safe conditions etc. For example, paraprofessionals

Question 13

How is more likely to develop metabolic syndrome?

Answer 13

Women

Question 14

How does education effect women health?

Answer 14

years of education positively correlates to live births

Question 15

How does SES effect nutrition?

Answer 15

Women in a lower SES are more likely to eat affordable high calorie foods and therefore gain with. This negatively effects their social mobility as we value physical attractiveness

Question 16

How does globalization effect health?

Answer 16

In poorer parts of the work women and girls are more likely to be sick as gender effects who receives (and the quality received) of health care

Question 17

Women of ______ are more likely to have health problems

Answer 17

visible minorities

Question 18

How does geographic region effect health?

Answer 18

More rural- less access to health care, lower education, less workforce involvement,

Question 19

How does geographical region effect aboriginal women’s health?

Answer 19

They have lower access to health care meaning they will often stay in abusive relationships, have unprotected sex or have higher rated of STI’s due to lack of resources/employment

Question 20

How does geographical region effect pregnancy and women health?

Answer 20

cuts to rural health services means women often have to go to urban areas for health care and this places stress due to money and traveling on mom and baby (negative effect on health)

Question 21

How does adolescence effect health?

Answer 21

They partake in riskier sex, unprotected sex and are girls are more likely to be victims of dating violence

Question 22

_____ are more likely to self harm

Answer 22

Girls

Question 23

How does older age effect health

Answer 23

Males: regular checkups
Females: getting out for events