Written Assignment Unit 7, Gender Differences
Throughout history, men and women have shown time and time again that they are drastically different and both like and dislike difference things. However, they are also different in biological ways. Obviously we have different sex organs, but the biological differences don’t stop there. We are both more susceptible to certain diseases than the other gender.
First of all, women Ogden, J (2017) on average live a few years longer than men do. As Dr. Ogden states, “Men and women therefore show different mortality rates, and vary in terms of specific illnesses and physical symptoms. In general, women seem to get more symptoms and illnesses than men yet live longer. Interestingly, although men die …show more content…
While men on the other hand don’t typically seek help until a much later stage of their illness as they think that it hurts their “pride” and they like to think that they can tough it out or handle it themselves. As Dr. Ogden states, “However, research indicates that in general men use health care services less than women and show greater delay in seeking help and identifying symptoms. They are also less likely to have a screening test or a general health check. Unit 4 described a series of psychological processes that help to explain help seeking behaviour: symptom perception, illness cognitions and the perceived costs and benefits of going to the doctor which could be used to explain why men use health care less than women. Such factors may in turn cause delayed help seeking which could contribute towards gender differences in life expectancy and causes of mortality if men wait until their illness has progressed before accessing medical care.” (pg. 88). Because of this, men generally die from their easily preventable diseases more than women do and this could possibly be one the main reasons that women on average live longer than men
Throughout history, men and women have shown time and time again that they are drastically different and both like and dislike difference things. However, they are also different in biological ways. Obviously we have different sex organs, but the biological differences don’t stop there. We are both more susceptible to certain diseases than the other gender.
First of all, women Ogden, J (2017) on average live a few years longer than men do. As Dr. Ogden states, “Men and women therefore show different mortality rates, and vary in terms of specific illnesses and physical symptoms. In general, women seem to get more symptoms and illnesses than men yet live longer. Interestingly, although men die …show more content…
While men on the other hand don’t typically seek help until a much later stage of their illness as they think that it hurts their “pride” and they like to think that they can tough it out or handle it themselves. As Dr. Ogden states, “However, research indicates that in general men use health care services less than women and show greater delay in seeking help and identifying symptoms. They are also less likely to have a screening test or a general health check. Unit 4 described a series of psychological processes that help to explain help seeking behaviour: symptom perception, illness cognitions and the perceived costs and benefits of going to the doctor which could be used to explain why men use health care less than women. Such factors may in turn cause delayed help seeking which could contribute towards gender differences in life expectancy and causes of mortality if men wait until their illness has progressed before accessing medical care.” (pg. 88). Because of this, men generally die from their easily preventable diseases more than women do and this could possibly be one the main reasons that women on average live longer than men