PHE1SDH Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gender Role, Cardiovascular Disease, Dementia
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Understanding the difference between gender and sex sex - biological, male, female, also intersex (reproductive differences based on genitalia, chromosomes, hormones) Gender - the "array of socially constructed roles and relationships, personality traits, attitudes, behaviours, values, relative power and influences that society ascribes to the two sexes on a differential basis" (vlassoff, 2007, p. 47). Differences in health outcomes between men and women. Life expectancy for men is around 4 years less than women (abs, 2017) - a consistent observation to that in other western countries. However, women experience greater morbidity ad are over- represented in health statistics. Women are less likely to be physically active than men - 69% of australian women report doing very little physical activity vs 61% of men indicated so (abs, 1017) Women are more likely to report higher level of psychological distress than men (abs, 2017)
