Women's Health Gap

sorebum405 · 2024-02-07T04:34:51+00:00

Women may live longer than men, on average, but they spend 25% more of their lives in debilitating health, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum and the McKinsey Health Institute launched at Davos.

They are trying to frame this as a disadvatange for women,but it really isn't.Women live a higher proportion of their life in poor health,because they live longer than men.

They are trying to focus on this gap as if it is a disadvantage for women.However,this overlooks the fact that in absolute terms women have both a longer healthy life expectancy and a longer total life expectancy then men.

You can tell they are really grasping at straws here.These are the two most important health outcomes,and men are disadvantaged in both.

The rest of the article seems like unfalsifable claims about widespread mistreatment of women in healthcare because there women,and claiming that there is a gender gap without comparing stats with men.

I will probably look into this more later,but remember this is the same organization that made the global gender gap report. So I seriously doubt that they have done an unbiased analysis.

Suspicious-Sleep5227 · 2024-02-07T03:41:26+00:00

I don’t have any hard evidence to present for or against. But the implication doesn’t quite seem to meet the sniff test because women visit the doctor much more often than men and are usually the ones who are far more concerned about their health. In light of these trends I remain skeptical that there is a health care resource gap in favor of men.

Vegetable_Ad1732 · 2024-02-07T03:35:55+00:00

This is an old article, from 1994, but it's a great one.

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96jun/cancer/kadar.htm

Title	Women's Health Gap
Author	maxhrlw
Upvotes	10
Comments	4
Date	February 7, 2024 3:29 AM UTC (2 years ago)
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