This question has been asked before, but I care not. Why do we spend so much more on women’s health issues?
July 10, 2011 by admin
Filed under health care
When men live 7-10 years less, on average. Where are the federal dollars? Where are the super-special White House councils? Where is the concern?
And for those people who are inevitably going to say, “it’s because men are fat slobs, who don’t take care of themselves” let me just tell you that I, along with everyone else in this groups, think you’re dumb. Thank you.
It’s *obviously* the work of teh evil dreaded Patriarchy! RIght? Right?
I don’t know why.
Honestly, I don’t.
Men’s health issues are just as important.
It’s the whole “women and children first” mentality that plagues the world.
Women outlive men because men have the tendency to over-eat more often than women do. Men are also more attracted to food that is high in cholesterol than women. Or rather, women do a better job of moderation.
A woman’s body is a complex organism compared to a man. There are many things that are still not understood about it. But we have come a long way since the mid 1980s.
Because not only women have more health issues than men but most women actually care about taking care of these issues. Men live 7 – 10 years less on average because they suppress all their emotions all their life pretending to be macho and manly when deep down inside they want to cry like everyone else. Men are more stressed than women and this contributes to an earlier death.
I would think that there is a lot being spent on women’s health issues simply because women have lobbied to have it that way. If men want more spent on say, prostate health, they can lobby for it too. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Also, there are more things that can go “wrong” with women than men. As far as gender-specific health problems go, prostate cancer, BPH, and erectile dysfunction are the only ones I can think of that men have. But I don’t see any federal funding going toward ED anytime in the future, after all, there isn’t any for female sexual dysfunction either. That’s more of a quality of life issue than a health issue.
In Australia I really think we have some men lobbying for this kind of thing.. Because a month ago it was Men’s health week, I only see a few breast cancer adds but a lot of prostate cancer adds with famous australians, They often have adds for Men’s depression, and just general depression, but not women’s depression.
The reason that Men generally die first is
1.) We are at a higher level of stress
2.) Our work is generally more strenuous than a woman’s
3.) We want to.
Despite you feelings about men being fat slobs, men usually consume more alcohol than women and women are always on some type of diet so they eat healthier than the average man and guys will stop by the local fast food restaurant for lunch during the work week
It is true that a mans health is every bit as important as a woman’s health but I think that you are confusing yourself. Women have places that a disease (cancer) can get to that a man does not even have, as an example a uterus. A man can not get cancer of the uterus because he does not have one. No having said that my father died of Choriocarcinoma (or cancer of the female reproductive system). Obviously my father did not have any female reproductive organs but just the same that is what showed up in his autopsy.
It was not very well known that when a woman has a heart attack it is much different than what is described for a man.
It is also a fact that women in the child bearing ages have a significantly lower level of cholesterol than men. Once a woman gets past menopause these start to level out.
mouthy women and their friggin breast cancer campaigns , womens hospitals and they sleep around too much so they spread so much disease.
A large proportion of spending on women’s health issues is directed at reproductive health, which involves organs of considerably more complexity than men’s (the same reason a vasectomy is so much easier than a tubal ligation and the “male pill” is still in development.) It also includes spending on obstetric care: pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal issues. This is when women grow and give birth to everyone, male and female. So counting the dollars in this legalistic, petty fashion is rather simplistic.
Men’s health issues are important too, of course. There is increasing awareness of and research/funding for many specifically male areas as well as those where the majority of those affected are male.
i think they should look at mens issues now, since the Y chromosome is shrinking, meaning the extinction of men.
Feminist lobbyist’s and feminist politicians. Every year feminist members of the House call for the entire men’s health budget to be revoked so it can be spent on women’s health issue’s.
Since feminist Nancy Pelosi was made Speaker of the House she cut men’s health spending by 5%.
Feminist’s got men’s heart health research cut in half in favor of heart disease research for 80-90 year old women.
In short.. Feminist lobbyist’s.
I thought it had something to do with men not accessing health care as much or as frequently as women. They did a study looking at the number of Dr appointments and when they took away reproductive health appointments, appointments on behalf of others/children women still had far more appointments than men.
This could be because of the stereotype ‘men don’t get ill therefore don’t need doctors appointments’ and perhaps are generally less help seeking than women. Preventative health care for men is really unfunded and poorly attended compared to women and recently there have been far more health drives aimed at getting men to take preventative measures, like prostate cancer, but you’re right, it’s still really lacking.