FEM 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Angina Pectoris, Income Distribution, Differential Diagnosis
26 Jun 2016
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Defining and measuring gender: a social determinant of health whose time has come susan p. philips. The relatively unchanging biology of being male or female. Genetic makeup and hormone profile are both examples of sex: gender. Refers to the roles and expectations attributed to men and women in a given society, roles that change over time, place, and life stage. Powerlessness and lack of control underlies much of the exposure to hiv/aids amongst women in africa. Due to the fact they don"t have equal resources in comparison to men in terms of food, education, and medical care. Does not question biology as the sole determinant of health but calls for an end to the discrimination that made the biology of women invisible. For these authors optimizing women"s health requires attention to the diseases that are unique to, more common amongst, or present differently in women but accepts, as a biologic imperative, the male, female differential in incidence of these diseases.
