The 'gender health gap' describes the differential treatment women experience when seeking healthcare, compared to men, and the impacts this has on women's overall health.
The"gender health gap" describes the differential treatment women experience when seeking healthcare, compared to men, and the negative impacts this treatment has on women's overall health. This inequity partially stems from the"gender research gap," or the historic exclusion of women from medical research.
Eight of the 10 prescription drugs posed greater health risks for women than for men: four of these may have led to more adverse events in women because they were prescribed more often to women than to men, while the other four had more adverse events in women even though they were widely prescribed to both men and women.
4. Crash test dummiesOne disparity we're more aware of in modern times is that crash test dummies are based on a male body, which may contribute to higher female mortality from car accidents due to safety equipment not being tailored to women’s anatomy. According to a 2013 U.S. Department of Transportation report, women are 17% more likely than men to die in a car accident.
7. Pain biasAccording to a 2008 report in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine , women's pain is not as likely to be treated as men's — women were 13% to 25% less likely to receive opioids in the emergency room despite presenting with the same pain scores as men.
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