Hayes / Campling / Prior Gender and Health Care in the UK

Exploring the Stereotypes
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4039-3760-5
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

This book brings together a detailed examination of gender differences in the health needs of the UK population. Commonly held assumptions and key debates are explored such as: Are older women more prone to illness than older men? Is being single bad for your health? Are women still the madder sex? The text provides the most up-to-date empirical information regarding gendered health care consumption in the UK and the background knowledge necessary to assess health care needs.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hayes, Bernadette C.

Prior, Pauline M.

Campling, Jo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Researching Gender and Health Care.- PART ONE: HEALTH CARE IN THE UK.- An Historical Account.- An Empirical Overview.- PART TWO: STEREOTYPES FULFILLED?.- Gender and Physical Health.- Marriage is Good for Health.- Older Women are Most Vulnerable.- PART THREE: STEREOTYPES REJECTED?.- Gender and Mental Health.- Women as the 'Madder' Sex.- Young Men as Reluctant Help-Seekers.- PART FOUR: THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY IN FOCUS.- The Future.- Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

BERNADETTE HAYES is Professor of Sociology at The Queen's University of Belfast. She is an expert in quantitative data analysis and her main areas of research interest include gender relations, religion and politics.PAULINE PRIOR is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at The Queen's University of Belfast. She is an experienced researcher in mental health policy and the author of Gender and Mental Health.