SOCI 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intersectionality, Asthma, Coronary Circulation
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Gender and health: differences in men and women"s, morality, physical health, mental health, explanations for gender differences in health, salience of concept of intersectionality (use this discussion to bring in. Differences: mortality: life expectancy, mortality rates for all causes, ten leading causes of death, all canadians, men and women. Life expectancy: at birth 1931 male=60. 0 female=62. 1, 1997 male= 75. 8 female=81. 4, 2015 male=79. 0 female=84. 4, 2018 male=79. 8 female=83. 9, 2020 male=90. 0 female=84. 0, at age 65, 2007 male=17. 0 female=21. 0, 2016 male= 19. 3 female=22. 1. Females live longer than males, but it is narrowing down. Morality rate is higher for men than woman but is narrowing down. Differences: mental health: no difference overall, men and women experience different types of mental health problems, men predominate in antisocial personality disorders and substance abuse and dependence (external, women predominate in depression, anxiety (internal) Explanations for gender differences: biological explanations, behavioral explanations, psychosocial explanations, social-structural explanations. Biological explanations: focus= physiological and genetic differences.
