PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Chronic Condition, Pap Test, Female Genital Mutilation
7 Apr 2017
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Ex. the female body typically has less fluid and more fat than the male body: gender makes a difference in the way a disease is diagnosed, viewed, and treated. Ex. when health-care providers diagnose a disease, they often consider the disease symptoms that occur in males to be normative, or standard. Women"s disease symptoms are often considered deviations from the norm -- the normative male. Ex. the rarely studied osteoporosis, a bone disease found predominantly in women, is often invisible. Women"s reproductive system often gets negative attention illness is an important part of many women"s experience. Health problems are a major concern for many women, and they become an increasingly central force as women grow older. Ex. women in the u. s. who are 55 or older -- more than 80% of these women experience at least one chronic health problem.
