Title: Gender-Based Perspectives About Women’s and Men’s Health
Abstract: The importance of gender in understanding health practices and cases of illness is increasingly recognized, and key to this chapter is a better understanding of the application of gender approaches to women's and men's health. First, the Gender and Health section describes how the influence of sex and gender on health has been analyzed. Second, the Sex and Health Studies section is organized according to a well-known classification of studies about gender and health: women's health, sex- and gender-based studies, and gender as a determinant of health studies. Underlying conceptions, contributions, and limitations of these studies are encapsulated. Third, relational, intersectional, and biosocial perspectives offer a contemporary view to analyze how gender shapes health. In the fourth section, gender self-categorization appeals to the complex and multidimensional nature of gender and how the concept of gender has been measured. Also, the gender beliefs topic is included in order to understand why societal shifts in behavior do not imply individual members similarly changing their beliefs about gender-appropriate roles. Finally, common aspects of gender perspectives on health are summarized.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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