Womens physical health

Question 1

What is mortality?

Answer 1

rates of death

Question 2

What is the gender difference in mortality?

Answer 2

their are more boys conceived, therefore more boys are still born

Question 3

What is morbidity?

Answer 3

rates of illness

Question 4

What is the gender paradox?

Answer 4

women live longer than men, but in poorer health

Question 5

What are the reasons for the gender paradox?

Answer 5

age, and money; women don’t make a lot of money therefore they receive poorer treatment

Question 6

What are the #1, #2 killers of both men and women?

Answer 6

heart disease, cancer

Question 7

What are the gender differences in heart disease?

Answer 7

women develop heart disease 10-15 years later than men, but by 60 women have same risk as men who are 60 because of menopause

Question 8

What are the unchangeable risk factors for heart disease?

Answer 8

gender, age, and family history

Question 9

What are the changeable risk factors for heart disease?

Answer 9

being overweight, high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, hormones.

Question 10

What are the treatments of heart disease?

Answer 10

women receive less aggressive treatment than men, because they do have the classic symptoms, are told that they are not having a heart attack, their having a panic attack

Question 11

What are the rates of Breast Cancer?

Answer 11

1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in a lifetime. 70 % of women diagnosed with breast cancer will survive

Question 12

What are the risk factors of breast cancer?

Answer 12

age, family history especially first degree, gynecological events; early menarche, late menopause, having children after 30, smoking and drinking alcohol, weight, exercise

Question 13

What is breast detection?

Answer 13

breast self-exam, clinical breast exam, mammogram,

Question 14

What is the treatment of breast cancer?

Answer 14

mastectomy (removal of breast, lymph nodes), lumpectomy( removal of lump, some tissue), radiation or chemotherapy, new maintenance drugs.

Question 15

What is the psychological impact for heart disease in women, men?

Answer 15

women who are more anxious, depressed are linked to heart disease. Men, women who are hostile are prone heart disease

Question 16

Why is breast cancer a focus of research, why is it so scary?

Answer 16

because breast cancer are seen as an essential part of being a woman. It is so terrifying because of the publicity that makes it seem like its more common, more deadly

Question 17

What is the psychological impact for breast cancer in women?

Answer 17

same as heart disease, and women who get defeated about the outcomes, have worse outcomes