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| Health Services and women |
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1- little was known about many aspects of womens health.
2- many times women were excluded from studies.
3- even fewer studies included elderly women.
4- few studies include elderly women and heart disease even though heart disease is common among elderly women. |
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| Women and their relationship with physicians? |
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1- sexism is well documented.
2- many female patients treated as subordinates.
3- many times the physician belittles womens health complaints, attributing them to psychosomatic factors.
4- womens pain reports are said to be emotional and thus not considered "real".
5- Women consistently receive more prescriptions for tranquilizers, antidepressants, and anti-anxiety drugs than men
6- 1/4 of women say that they were talked down to by a physician.
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| Type and quality of care for women? |
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women receieve less adequate care then men, even when the severity of the condition is the same.
ex- heart disease in women is treated less aggressively in women than in men. |
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what ethnicity of women is most likely to be poor and uninsured?
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| women of color are most likely to be poort and uninsured. |
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| when dealing with preventative heatlh care, women of?... |
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| often there is a financial barrier when dealing with preventative health care, women of clor and poor women are less likely to get the proper care that they need. |
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True or False?
Number of ethnic minority women receiving mammograms and Pap smears has risen substantially during the past decade?
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| What are lesbians and bisexuals at higher risk for? |
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- they are at an increased risk for certain health problems.
- higher risk for breast and ovarian cancer because they are LESS likely to go through hormonal changes associated with pregnancy.
-they are more likely to smoke and consume alcohol. |
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True or False?
Women of color are more likely to lack health insurance than white women? |
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| what are two types of government health cares? |
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| the federal program designed to provide health care for those over 65, permanently disabled, regardless of income. |
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| a combined state and federal program to provide medical care for the needy regardless of age. |
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| when individuals who do not qualify for medicaid, ultimately become eligible once they have depleted most of their financial resources and assets. |
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| What are two types of Private insurance plans? |
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1- fee for service
2-managed care |
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Fee-for-service: the insurer pays part of the cost for specified services, including hospitalization and diagnostic service but not preventative care
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-provides service to members for a flat fee.
- emphasizes preventative care.
- and early detection of diseases more than fee-for-service plans do. |
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| STI? Sexually transmitted infection? |
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- have reached epidemic proportions
- especially in americans 15-24
- 1/4 american teenage american girls infected |
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AIDS?
Acquired Immune Deffieciency Syndrome |
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- caused by HIV (humanimmunodefficiency virus)
- women, particularly women of color are the fastest growing group to be infected with HIV.
- the 6th leading cause of death in america for women ages 25-34.
- leading cause of death for black women that age. |
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| - chronic and sometimes painful condition in which the lining of the uterus migrates and grows onto pelvic structures. |
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- non- cancerous growths of the uterus
- 3 out of 4 women will develop these. |
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- Heart and blood vessels
- major cause of death for US women
- more deadly than all forms of cancer combined
- kills 500,000 women in the US annually. |
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Cardiovascular disease- 30% die from it
10% fear it
Breast Cancer- 4% die
22 % fear it |
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| Precautions for cardiovascular disease? |
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- A diet low in cholesterol
- Low in saturated fats
- reasonable body weight
- regular exercise
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- 180,000 diagnosed each year
- 41,000 will die from the disease
- self- breast exams should be done once a month a week after period |
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