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  • Title: [Women's health and ill health from a gender theoretic perspective].
    Author: Hammarström A, Hovelius B.
    Journal: Nord Med; 1994; 109(11):288-91. PubMed ID: 7971234.
    Abstract:
    Accumulated knowledge of women's health remains incomplete, and its fragmentary nature may be explained by a variety of factors: the contrived 'invisibility' of women in research, normative male predominance, gender bias, an inadequate female power base, insufficient resources, etc. The health paradox--i.e., the relative longevity of women versus their greater proneness to disease and symptoms--is discussed and two models, a biological/genetic and a sociocultural model, are presented in an attempt to explain it. The adoption of a gender perspective in future research is suggested as a possible mean of eliciting new knowledge in this field.
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