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Being a woman means fewer years of healthy life

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Being a woman means fewer years of healthy life

Gender is considered an important determinant of health and deserves more attention.

Gender is a determining factor in health, a variable that allows men and women to enjoy more or fewer years of healthy life.But women are also losers in this equation.

A number of studies show that women have a lower quality of life than men.To be precise, a study conducted by the Center for Demographic Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona recently showed that in the Region of Murcia, female residents aged 50 and over live an average of 9.1 years longer (up to 59.1 years) in good health.This means the absence of chronic hypertension and back pain.

Meanwhile, men age 50 and older live an average of 9.9 years longer in good health, nearly a year ahead of women.

In the face of this reality, family doctors are paying attention to the need to include a gender perspective in health care and medical evaluation, and Murcian Dr. insists.Mario Soler, member of the Community Activities and Primary Care Program Semfyc — Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine —, the weight loss that governs the health of society.

The specialist acknowledged that there is extensive research on gender and health that shows that women are disadvantaged.

Thus, despite the fact that women live almost five years longer than men, "they have poor health and a poor perception of their own status".

Soler explains that women are almost twice as likely as men to suffer from depression and anxiety, are more likely to take psychotropic medications, and are more likely to have non-fatal chronic illnesses that impair their quality of life and health.

"Women have fewer electrocardiograms than men when they have the same symptoms"

But if there's one moment that's crucial to women's health, and one that marks both the before and the after, it's menopause.This moment is not just the end of menstruation, but a biological phase that can affect the cardiovascular system, bones, sleep, mood, sexual function and quality of life.

In bone health, menopause matters a lot because the loss of estrogen accelerates the loss of bone mass and increases the risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures.Therefore, at this stage it is important to consider calcium, vitamin D, strength training and bone risk assessment.

Doctor Murcian of Semfyc's Community Activities and Primary Care Program also emphasizes the link between menstruation and heart health.

During and after menopause, the risk of heart disease and stroke increases due to hormonal changes, aging and factors such as weight gain, high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes or smoking.This does not mean that menopause itself causes heart disease, but it does mean that it is an important time to monitor preventive measures.

"The reality is that after menopause, the risk of cardiovascular disease is the same as men because the protection that women provide disappears," says Soler.

In addition to the physical changes women experience as they age, their living conditions influence their health: the wage gap;unpaid work, which is more common among women than men;Profile of caregivers and it includes physical and emotional stress, etc.

But the wear and tear does not stop there, because many psychological problems are associated with cases of gender violence, whether it is physical or psychological, and this can lead to a change in the perception they themselves have about their state of health.

Gender training

Faced with this reality, a Semfyc member doctor believes that sexual health training is still very necessary because "it has been noticed that sometimes health care is worse for women than for men."

For example,He talked about cardiovascular diseases;That's because women are less likely than men to suspect a heart attack or angina before they develop similar symptoms, with them having an X-ray and less diarrhoea.Their symptoms are often associated with anxiety episodes that delay diagnosis.

For this reason, Semfyc has taken a step forward and, on the occasion of March 8, focused on the importance of integrating a gender perspective into healthcare.“To work towards more equitable care, it is important to understand how social roles, living conditions or biases influence clinical practice,” they emphasize, adding that the society organized a training session focusing on gender as a social determinant of health.Health, which addresses inequalities in the health and disease process and their impact on everyday clinical practice in primary care.

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