Health is a product of many factors, these factors include biological; sex, genes and age, and social; gender, environments and class. Biological factors are considered independent and generally stable with few notably exceptions such as sex changes. Unlike social factors which are dependable, and within a constant paradigm of stable and flux, as they depend on cultural norms and perceptions which create different groups of people or demographics. These characteristics include behaviours and attitudes which in turn are hard to change but are achievable over-time, and are different within certain demographics. Gender being within such a paradigm can and does affect the health of people negatively and more invasively due to the culture norms and perceptions of masculinity and femineity as oppose to the sex of male and female. The realities of gender on health will be explored within the case studies of the sexual division of labour and violence.
