HTHSCI 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sickle-Cell Disease, Dating Abuse, Vehicle Frame

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HTHSCI 2RR3
• Professor: Allison Schure

Document Summary

Compared to males, females utilize health-care services more frequently. Because their social positions vary by socioeconomic position, ethnicity, race, and migrant status, some girls and women are especially vulnerable to social disparities and deserve special consideration. There are not only significant gender differences in morbidity and mortality worldwide but also in how health- related risks are diagnosed and treated. Interaction between predisposing genetic and biological pathways with social and cultural factors that shape individual attitudes and behaviours to positively or negatively influence health. Health determinants that operate at the middle/meso-level of society, such as public health care, housing, and transportation, also influence individual health. Individuals with less education, which is a key marker of low ses, were found to have higher rates of death from all causes except breast cancer. Females have historically been and continue to be more likely to be poor, to live in inadequate housing, and to exert less control over their bodies and lives.