PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11-12: Cervical Cancer, Pap Test, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
22 Mar 2013
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Gender makes a difference in the kind of health problems that people experience. Female body typically has less fluid and more fat than the male body, important consequences for alcohol metabolism. Gender makes a difference in the way a disease is diagnosed, viewed, and treated. Health care providers often consider the disease symptoms that occur in males to be normative, or standard. Same disease may cause a different set of symptoms in females. Illness is an important part of many women"s experience. Chronic health problem: long lasting illness that cannot be completely cured. In us, this could account for 70% death. Women have often been neglected in medicine and in medical research. Some physician considers women complaints to be not as serious as men"s. Believe women are more emotional and cannot understand information of their medical condition. Medical care provided to women is often inadequate or irresponsible. Received too much or too little health care.
