HLTC02H3 Lecture 5: Lec5 Soc Dets of Women's Health.doc
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Gender anaylsis is much broader, looks at a whole range of vairables to see how they interact. We will tbe talking about social detrminants of health. Look at cvd, range of income levels, by race itself. Low income men tend to be at the greates risk of cardiovascular disease. Gba was only focused on gender, really an add-on to their tradional policy analysis techniques. Not recognized by the current forms of analysis. Limited range of evidence of people being considered, women simply not getting recognition. Page 171, evidence based medicine is baed on the diea that scientific knowledge exists in some way uncontaminated by social life, ccan be applied without problem. Women"s issues are not recognized in this quest. Need to understand women"s issues, thet type of health issues that they deal with or experience over the focourse of hteir lives. Within the videnced based medicine movement, the fe focus on the quality of evidence has been based on cochrane.
