Sex and gender differences in health

Sex and gender differences in health

Men and women are alike in many ways. However, there are important biological and behavioural differences between the two genders. They affect manifestation, epidemiology and pathophysiology of many widespread diseases and the approach to health care. Despite our knowledge of these crucial differences, there is little gender-specific health care; the prevention, management and therapeutic treat...

Sex and Gender Health

“Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.” This well-known metaphor originally intended to describe the psychological differences between men and women in romantic relationships in 1992, may actually be explained by fundamental differences in physiological, psychological, social and epidemiological factors. Physiologically, males and females differ in their genetic, hormonal and anatomical comp...

Exploring sex and gender differences in sleep health: a Society for Women's Health Research Report.

Previous attempts have been made to address sleep disorders in women; however, significant knowledge gaps in research and a lack of awareness among the research community continue to exist. There is a great need for scientists and clinicians to consider sex and gender differences in their sleep research to account for the unique biology of women. To understand the role of sex differences in sle...

Gender Differences in Mixed-Sex Conversations

Sex and gender in health and medicine.

A principal theme of the Fifth International Conference on Social Science and Medicine was "Sex and Gender in Health and Medicine". Sex has important implications for individual health, and it is a prominent feature in the staffing and utilization of health services. Sex is an appropriate focus of research on social aspects of health and medicine: first, sex differences in morbidity, disability...