Social_Organization_And_Its_Affect_On_Health

Social Organization And Its Affect On Health Social Organization and Its Affect On Health Most people do not think about their health or issues revolving around their health until they are actually ill or people think that their health is only affected by biological factors. However, our health should be a focus in our lives because our daily life has an affect on our health. Illness does not only have biological causes but is also influenced by social factors such as the socially imposed roles of gender and socioeconomic differences. Before the affect of gender on health can be discussed, the difference between gender and sex must first defined. Sex refers to actual physiological and hormonal differences between men and women; gender refers to the differences that are imposed by society. Statistics have shown that women have higher rates of morbidity but men have shorter life spans. This means that although women live longer than men, those years are not healthy years but rather are filled with illness. This cannot be completely explained by biological causes but the affect of social factors must be taken into account. There are two types of gender difference disease: completely biological and biological amplified by social. Examples of completely biological diseases health, higher, women, men, socioeconomic, biological, stress, gender, differences, affect, status, cancer, life, illness, social, factors, diseases, weiss, lonnquist, exposure, distress, years, upper, sex, rates, psychological, poor, people, ovarian, lower, levels, lead, increase, due, disease