HLTH260 Final: 7.2- Sexuality, Gender and Health

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH260
• Professor: B.Jones

Document Summary

Sexual orientation covers sexual desires, feelings, practices and identification. Sexual orientation can be towards people of the same or different sexes or gender identity (same-sex, heterosexual or bisexual orientation) Gender identity refers to the complex relationship between sex and gender referring to a person"s experience of self expression in relation to social categories of masculinity or femininity (gender). A person"s subjectively felt gender identity may be at variance with their sex or physiological characteristics. Nature, severity, or frequency of health problems may vary systematically between men and women. Presumption: sicker people presumably ought to die sooner. Older men suffering from life-threatening diseases compared to non-fatal degenerative conditions in women. Self-reported disability higher among older women than men. Income gaps between men and women 40th. Diverse and varied populations that often share little more than society"s stigma and prejudice. Estimates of canadian glb population in size range from as little as 1% to as much as 11%