Gender Inequalities in Health Over the Life Course. Attitudes Towards III-Health in Men and Women Treated for Childhood Cancer
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Gender inequalities in health may result from differences in health care utilisation. This paper reports, using an interactionist approach, health-related beliefs of men and women treated for cancer in childhood and living with increased health risks ever since. We observed that normative masculine traits are sometimes used to legitimise a reluctance to undergo medical surveillance. Overall, men tended to express a passive attitude towards ill-health, resulting in a gendered health vulnerability.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sjs-2018-0013 | Journal eISSN: 2297-8348
Language: English
Page range: 281 - 300
Published on: Jul 28, 2018
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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