Gendered epidemiology: Making men's health visible in epidemiological research
The issue of Gendered epidemiology
May be the we would like to rethink the issue of Female gender discrimination in the Aged population. It is like inserting other agendas into a separate agenda.
Male gender discrimination in the Ageing population may be more evident but less studied. The higher life expectancy of the female gender when compared to the male gender is an important scientific fact and need to be studied very well. We need not to study how to decrease the life expectancy of females, but rather how to elevate the males' life expectancy to a closer level comparable to female gender life expectancies. We must keep in our mind the statement "Men have not yet received the same level of detailed attention, even to the point where discussions around gender and health have traditionally been synonymous with women’s health" (A. White & N. Richardson, 2011). So we ought to be using a ‘gendered lens’ to be applied to epidemiological data, rather than continuing on the same traditional female discrimination. We need to be aware of European State of Men’s Health Report issued by the European Commission in 2011. It comprises an analysis of data relating to men’s usage of health services. Then it was followed by another one for female health. In fact A . White & N. Richardson (2011) state that "commissioning of separate women’s and men’s health reports is, in effect, recognition by the European Union of the need for a ‘gendered lens’ to be applied to epidemiological data". This does not deny the presence of female under privileging in health services in the world. But one must put in his mind the under privileging of elderly in the non developed world and the huge gap between developed countries and the rest of the world (see box >>> in the first draft of the strategy).
A. White, N. Richardson (2011): Gendered epidemiology: Making men’s health visible in epidemiological research PUBLIC HEALTH 125(7):407-10 • JULY 2011
