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Author Hayes, Bernadette C.

Title Gender and health care in the United Kingdom : exploring the stereotypes / Bernadette C. Hayes and Pauline M. Prior ; consultant editor, Jo Campling
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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Description xvi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents 1. Researching gender and health care -- Part I. Health Care in the UK: 2. A historical account; 3. An empirical overview -- Part II. Stereotype Fulfilled?: 4. Gender and physical health; 5. Marriage is good for health; 6. Older women are most vulnerable -- Part III. Stereotypes Rejected?: 7. Gender and mental health; 8. Women as the 'madder' sex; 9. Young men as reluctant help-seekers -- Part IV. The Twenty-first Century in Focus: 10. The future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sex factors in disease -- Great Britain.
Medical care -- Utilization -- Sex differences -- Great Britain.
Delivery of Health Care.
Health Services Needs and Demand.
Sex Factors.
SUBJECT United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Author Prior, Pauline.
ISBN 0333779215 paperback