PSY-3635 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Neurasthenia, Fibromyalgia, Menarche

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY-3635
• Professor: Schlundt David

Document Summary

Overview: men and women face special challenges when it comes to health and health care, we will first look at challenges men face - men"s health, we will then look at challenges women face women"s health. Life expectancy gap: reluctance to seek or utilize health care services, risky behaviors. Suicide: relationship to work and career, prostate cancer, erectile dysfunction. 2. 7 binge drinking episodes per year: most people who binge drink are not alcoholics or alcohol dependent. It is estimated that about 17% of men and about 8% of women will meet criteria for alcohol dependence at some point in their lives. Prostate cancer: prostate gland produces prostate fluid which is one the key components of semen. Therefore, the five-year survival rate with treatment for these individuals is nearly 100%: screening is controversial since aggressive intervention may create more problems than it solves (impotence and incontinence) Fortunately, if caught early, 97% of these cancers are curable.