GENDER MATTERS AND HEALTH: THE ROLE OF CHOICE AND POLICY

性别问题与健康：选择和政策的作用

• 批准号: 6788871
• 负责人: Chloe E. Bird
• 金额: $ 7.71万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2006-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6788871
• 关键词: books; choice; gender difference; health; health care policy; literature survey; monograph; publications; sociology /anthropology; books; choice; gender difference; health; health care policy; literature survey; monograph; publications; sociology /anthropology

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The paradox of women's higher morbidity rates and lower mortality rates compared to men raises many questions for biologists, clinicians and social scientists. Until recently, the research and policy dialogue has focused almost exclusively on either social or biological differences. Our proposed book, Gender Matters: An Examination of Health Consequences of Constrained Choices and Social Policies, will provide a balanced analysis of how differences in men's and women's lives and in their physiology contribute to paradoxical health differences. We will focus on the following three aims: 1) Review and synthesize the biomedical and social science literature on gender differences in health; 2) Examine how constrained choices and social policies shape gender differences in health; and 3) Explore whether and how social contexts (including work, family, and community) and policies can be altered to reduce gender differences in health and improve individual and population health. We will elaborate a model of how the subtle and cumulative health effects of constrained choice in men's and women's lives affect their mental and physical health and show how social and health care policies that fail to consider findings from both social and biological research can inadvertently foster circumstances that predispose men or women to health problems. Our work will yield new insights into the paradox of gender differences in health and provide a better understanding of the wide range of social barriers to choosing health.

描述（由申请人提供）： 与男性相比，妇女较高的发病率和较低的死亡率的悖论为生物学家，临床医生和社会科学家提出了许多问题。 直到最近，研究和政策对话几乎全部集中在社会或生物学差异上。 我们提出的书《性别问题：对限制选择和社会政策的健康后果的检查》将对男性和女性生活及其生理学的差异进行平衡的分析，从而有助于矛盾的健康差异。 我们将重点关注以下三个目标：1）审查和综合有关健康性别差异的生物医学和社会科学文献； 2）研究选择和社会政策的受限如何影响健康的性别差异； 3）探讨社会环境（包括工作，家庭和社区）以及如何改变政策，以减少健康方面的性别差异并改善个人和人口健康。 我们将阐述一个模型，说明男性和女性生活中有限选择的微妙和累积健康影响如何影响她们的身心健康，并表明未能考虑社会和生物学研究结果的社会和保健政策如何无意中促进使男人或女性对健康问题产生偏见的环境。 我们的工作将使人们对健康性别差异的悖论产生新的见解，并更好地了解选择健康的广泛社会障碍。