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Gender Health
Gender Health (Health Education · Health Disparity) — "Women are affected adversely both by unequal access to and institutionalized sexism in the health care i…
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- Women are adversely affected by unequal access to health care and institutionalized sexism.
- Unequal access limits women’s ability to obtain quality health care.
- Institutionalized sexism shapes women’s diagnoses and treatment.
- Women’s ability to see needed specialists declined between 2001 and 2008.
- In 2008, one quarter of women questioned the quality of their health care.
- Intersection theory links health effects to race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other attributes.
- Low-income women expressed more concerns about health care quality than other women.
- Women are more likely than men to be diagnosed with certain mental disorders.
- Critics argue that borderline personality disorder has been used as a catch-all diagnosis for too many women.
- Critics also identify the medicalization of women’s issues.
- Medicalized issues include menstruation, pre-menstrual syndrome, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause.
- Social support can relieve pain and anxiety during childbirth as effectively as medical support.
- Supportive partners are associated with less medical intervention and fewer cases of postpartum depression.
- Quality birth care outside standard medical models may not be readily available to women of all social classes.
