Gender and Health Flashcards
What is gender?
Social construct, sociology
What is sex?
Biology, Chromosomes
Who is more disadvantaged?
Women
Who is more likely to access health care? Why?
Women, biology (more things change) sociology (more in touch with body and feelings)
Who is more likely to develop diseases?
Males - females in wealthy countries are biologically advantaged
Who is more likely to be diagnosed with diseases? Why
Males - men are the prototypes and therefore show most of the signs
Who is more likely to die of mortality, violence and suicide? Why?
Males - gender roles
Who has worse mental health? Why?
Women, screening tools are biased towards women
How has research filed?
Views women as abnormalities of men, doesn’t examine gender, just sex
____ leads to poorer ______
low SES leads to poor health
Who is more likely to be in a lower SES?
Women- think back to income
How does employment effect women health?
Women in lower SES take on more vulnerable jobs where there is no benefits, maternity leave, safe conditions etc. For example, paraprofessionals
How is more likely to develop metabolic syndrome?
Women
How does education effect women health?
years of education positively correlates to live births
How does SES effect nutrition?
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
How does globalization effect health?
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
Women of ______ are more likely to have health problems
visible minorities
How does geographic region effect health?
More rural- less access to health care, lower education, less workforce involvement,
How does geographical region effect aboriginal women’s health?
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
How does geographical region effect pregnancy and women health?
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)
How does adolescence effect health?
They partake in riskier sex, unprotected sex and are girls are more likely to be victims of dating violence
_____ are more likely to self harm
Girls
How does older age effect health
Males: regular checkups
Females: getting out for events
