PS287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Immune Disorder, Immune System, Sexual Orientation
Document Summary
Chapter 10 (lecture 12) sex differences in health: evidence and explanation. Paradox: men higher mortality rates; women higher morbidity rates: men are more biologically" vulnerable than women. Causes of increased longevity: better nutrition, better health care, vaccines, reasons for increase in sex differences in mortality, reduction in women"s mortality during childbirth. Increase men"s mortality from heart disease and cancer for men: reasons for recent decrease in sex differences, greater proportionate decrease in heart disease an cancer for men, greater increase in lung cancer for women. Leading causes of death influenced by: age. Female greater morbidity than males: nonfatal chronic illness, arthritis. Painful disorder: worse health perception, greater activity restriction, greater prescription drugs, greater health care utilization. Immune system paradoxical: women greater immune response to bacterial infection, women greater autoimmune diseases (lupus, rheumatoid, arthritis, ms, women could have more responsive immune systems, differences in cvr may be an artifact of masculine paradigms, artifacts.
