FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Coronary Artery Disease, Overdiagnosis, Psychosis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

Some of the most striking and persistent differences concern"s men"s and women"s health and mortality. Adult"s rates of chronic, disease, disability and mortality are much higher than children"s. Connection between health and gender is social, political, psychological and behavioural. Behaviour, social support and socialization are deeply affected by gender roles. Gender roles have important consequences in determining our health and well- being. Social science thinking and research on gender and health continues understand what these differences speak to . Sex: the struggle to distinguish gender from sex, with gender seen as the cultural expectations associated with biological categories male and female, there are differences between gender and sex, gender: social construction, how we"re socialized, sex: physical biology. Gender differences in reported health: current epidemiological data suggests, differences in mortality rates between men and women. Women tend to live longer than men. Female life expectancy is seven years longer than males.