Gender Health - Special Topics Flashcards
What is gender health?
Gender in health looks at the roots of health-seeking behavior. It aims to improve health outcomes for both female and male populations, regardless of age, ethnicity, religion and socioeconomic status.
What does psychosocial mean?
Of or relating to the interrelation of social factors and individual thought and behavior
What is dysfunction?
Abnormality or impairment in the function of a specified bodily organ or system.
Deviation from the norms of social behavior in a way regarded as bad.
Psychosocial health includes what 4 components?
Mental Health
Emotional Health
Social Health
Spiritual Health
What is mental health?
Your beliefs and values in life, as well as how you relate to others and respond to situations in your life, are a reflection of mental health, which overlaps with the other aspect of health we’re going to talk about.
What is emotional health?
This includes things like anger, love, hate, and happiness. Often times, emotional and mental health overlap a great deal in some situations.
What is social health?
Ability to create and maintain healthy relationships. Social health goes beyond having appropriate emotional health and intelligence. A person with good social health recognizes the importance of social engagement. We’re pack animals after all! We’re not supposed to live alone!
A person with good social health is able to support their friends in a time of need and ask for their help when they need it themselves.
They aren’t biased, prejudiced, racist, or sexist.
Listens to others well, expresses their feelings just as well, and acts in a responsible manner around others.
What is spiritual health?
Belief in a force that gives meaning to life.
For some this is nature, others religion, for some it is a person’s ethics, morals, values, and beliefs.
When individuals do not conform to established gender norms, relations or roles, they often face ____– all of which negatively impact health.
stigma, discriminatory practices or social exclusion
Gender norms influence ___ and ___ over resources needed to attain optimal health.
access and control
Gender norms influence access and control over resources needed to attain optimal health, including:
- economic (income, credit);
- social (social networks);
- political (leadership, participation);
- information and education (health literacy, academic);
- time (access to health services); and
- internal (self confidence/esteem).
Gender norms, roles, and relations result in differences between men and women in:
- exposure to risk factors or vulnerability;
- household-level investment in nutrition, care and education;
- access to and use of health services;
- experiences in health-care settings; and
- social impacts of ill-health.
How many US adults experience mental illness each year?
1 in 5 or 19.1% or 47.6 million people
How many US adults experience serious mental illness each year?
1 in 25 or 4.6% or 11.4 million people
How many US youth aged 6-17 experience a metal health disorder each year?
1 in 6 or 16.5% or 7.7 million people
What percent of US adults experienced a co-occuring substance use disorder and mental illness in 2018?
3.7% or 9.2 million
___ is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 10-34.
Suicide
How many people have anxiety disorders?
48 million people or 19.1%
How many people have major depressive episodes?
17.7 million people or 7.2%
What percent of US adults with mental illness received treatment in 2018?
43.3%
What percent of US adults with serious mental illness received treatment in 2018?
64.1%
People with depression have a___% higher risk of developing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases than the general population. People with serious mental illness are nearly twice as likely to develop these conditions.
40%
19.3% of U.S. adults with mental illness also experienced a ___ disorder in 2018 (9.2 million individuals)
substance use
Caregivers of adults with mental or emotional health issues spend an average of ___ hours per week providing unpaid care
32 hours
Mental illness and substance use disorders are involved in how many emergency department visits by a U.S. adult (estimated 12 million visits)?
1 out of every 8
___ are the most common cause of hospitalization for all people in the U.S. under age 45 (after excluding hospitalization relating to pregnancy and birth)
Mood disorders
20.1% of people experiencing ___ in the U.S. have a serious mental health condition
homelessness
___% of adults incarcerated in the state and federal prison system have a diagnosed mental illness.
37%