GE CLST M72B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Domestic Violence, Homicide
10 Feb 2017
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Women get sicker, but men die quicker. Teasing out biological sex differences from social and environmental contexts because they covary. Attending to differences between men and women and differences among men and among women. Gender difference: stress, gender roles (women seek out help, men remain stoic, health behaviors (men drink more alcohol, familiarity with health care system (women more familiar though reproduction and morbidity, men have more homicide. Race difference: stress, health behaviors (black men take more alcohol and drugs, access to health care, safety of neighborhoods. Life expectancy for high and low-income countries: high-income females: 82, high-income male: 76, low-income females: 64, low-income males: 61. Men: heart attacks, traumas, accidents, homicides, successful suicide, sports injury. Women: caregiver stress, victims of spousal abuse, rape, genital mutilation, suicide, eating disorders. The social construction of illness refers to how social norms shape what is considered. From 4th century bc to 1952, literally meant womb disease .
