Covid has been shown to have different effects on women and men – Forward

Like many illnesses, COVID-19 has different effects on men and women. This will result in significantly fewer deaths than women than men. This is the difference seen across countries and cultures. The mortality rate for men is high even though the diagnosis rate for women is high. Scientists are working to determine why this is, investigating smoking prevalence and underlying health status in men, as well as the effects of genetics, estrogens or other biological factors in women. .. Perhaps higher mortality in men will place considerable attention on gender differences common to many diseases and treatments, and will apply gender lenses to all surveillance and research.

The difference with COVID-19 is especially surprising. This is because so many factors increase a woman’s risk of becoming infected. According to the US Census Bureau, Women are 91% of American nurses, women are more likely to be staffed in nursing homes, more likely to be caretakers of sick families, more likely to live in poverty, More likely to be near young children. However, women infected with COVID-19 die less often than men.

Covid has gender differences — so does all healthcare

This is the latest sign of a problem that the medical community and women advocates have long recognized. Women and men often have different symptoms of the same disease and different reactions to medications, medical devices, and treatments. Within the research agenda, and in access to and delivery of health care, gender disparities in medicine expose women to misdiagnosis, ineffective treatments, and risk of critical care.

Also, while men are dying more and more at COVID-19, women are becoming unemployed, domestic violence, increasing family care, reducing access to reproductive health care, socializing such as food, housing and income Anxiety that bears the imbalance of impact. Caregivers are more likely to delay their health care by skipping appointments and practicing less healthy behavior for themselves. All of these factors affect health and economy in the short and long term.

Significant lack of information on the diagnosis and mortality of women and men limits the ability of researchers to draw conclusions. The data gap does not include partial or complete gender statistics for countries with high mortality, such as the United States, France, United Kingdom, Wales, Turkey and Brazil. The complete collection and accurate reporting of gender and gender information is essential to a comprehensive interdisciplinary effort to understand and contain this virus. Researchers and policy makers need to bring gender lenses to their research in order to properly and effectively address different aspects.

let’s do it National Women’s Health Week (May 10-16) Investigate gender-specific ways COVID-19 affects women and encourage the medical community to address gender differences. Proposing at the legislative, clinical and social levels is the approach that Hadasa has long adopted effectively in the United States, Linda Joy Poliner Diovascular Wellness Center for Women At the Hadasa Ein Kerem Hospital in Israel, staff work in a culture-specific way tailored to women, improving the health of some of Israel’s most deprived and poor people.

For example, heart disease is the largest murderer of women, but only one-third of heart studies are women. Research also shows that health care providers are more likely to attribute symptoms of female pain to stress or psychological causes, as opposed to men who are diagnosed with a physical or neurological condition of similar symptoms. Is shown.

We support the call from the American Women’s Medical Association. Union for Hadasa Women’s Health Equity – for Study by gender In all aspects of the COVID-19 Surveillance Report, and in clinical and basic science research. This information is important.

A few years ago, the author of Refinery29, an online publication focused on young women, experimented: They don’t get in the way of men walking on the sidewalk, They were expected to always know. Instead, I tried to see what it would take to occupy a sidewalk space (literally space) and hoped that a passing man would step aside. Each author was surprised at the result. How many men not only checked their shoulders and set them aside, but how their behavior and perception changed.

When women and girls are socialized to be physically “space-saving,” they quickly become internalized and believe that they should not be emotionally or psychologically space-consuming. This can occur in interactions with your doctor. For example, hesitate to ask your healthcare provider for more information or hesitate to ask about your current research.

We need to proactively change it to address our care. Self-care at the most basic level. We must be our own supreme defenders, at home, at work, in the clinic, in the state government, in the parliament.

If we are willing to better understand gender / gender differences and health disparities and take more space to defend our own health care at both the individual and population level, then as an individual Improve everyone’s health, as a community, and in the end will benefit us.