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  2. Mental disorders and gender - Wikipedia

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    Gender-specific risk factors increase the likelihood of getting a particular mental disorder based on one's gender. Some gender-specific risk factors that disproportionately affect women are income inequality, low social ranking, unrelenting child care, gender-based violence, and socioeconomic disadvantages.

  3. Gender bias in medical diagnosis - Wikipedia

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    [9] There is a suggestion that assumptions regarding gender specific behavioral characteristics can lead to a diagnostic system which is biased. [34] The issue of gender bias with regard to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) personality disorder criteria has been controversial and widely debated. The fourth DSM (4th ed ...

  4. Mental health inequality - Wikipedia

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    While gender differences among those with mental health disorders are an underdeveloped field of study, there are gender specific aspects to life that cause disparities. Gender is often a determinant of the amount of power one has over factors in their life, such as socioeconomic status and social position, and the stressors that go along with ...

  5. Social determinants of mental health - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] [13] Gender-based mental health disparities suggest that gender is a factor that could be leading to unequal health outcomes. [14] Research studies included in Lancet Psychiatry Women's Mental Health Series focuses on understanding why some of these gendered disparities might exist. [15]

  6. Gender disparities in health - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." [1] Identified by the 2012 World Development Report as one of two key human capital endowments, health can influence an individual's ability to reach his or her full potential in society. [2]

  7. Gender and disability - Wikipedia

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    Many disabilities, such as Fibromyalgia, are vastly disproportionally diagnosed in female patients compared to male patients even though there is no known medical cause for this gender disparity. [2] However, disorders involving the female reproductive system are often unnoticed, under-diagnosed, or reported to have diagnostic processes ...

  8. Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder - Wikipedia

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    RBD is a sleep disorder characterized by the loss of normal skeletal muscle atonia during REM sleep and is associated with prominent motor activity and vivid dreaming. [6] [2] These dreams often involve screaming, shouting, laughing, crying, arm flailing, kicking, punching, choking, and jumping out of bed.

  9. Sex differences in humans - Wikipedia

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    Gender-based medicine, also called "gender medicine", is the field of medicine that studies the biological and physiological differences between the human sexes and how that affects differences in disease. Traditionally, medical research has mostly been conducted using the male body as the basis for clinical studies.